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Creator:

New York (State). Comptroller's Office

 

 

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These 3 volumes contain field notes and calculations of engineers employed on the canal system. One book was kept by C. E. Gray for work near Canajoharie; another is a level book kept on the middle division of the Oswego canal; and the third is a level book kept near Marcellus..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Department of State

 

 

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The series consists of field books, notes, maps, and deeds relating to the Holland Land Company's lands in the western part of New York State. Records include the original field books from the surveys of 1798 and 1799, which provide a systematic survey of the Holland Land Purchase; field notes (journals) .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

 

 

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This series compiled by the State Engineer and Surveyor documents the appraisal, surveying, purchase, and sale of lands within the state. Records include land tract sales, land appraisals, surveys and descriptions of tracts, reports (such as land boundaries and state canals); correspondence (including .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

24

Creator:

New York (State). Secretary of State

 

 

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These volumes include surveys of land in the State's New Military Tract granted to veterans for service during the Revolution. They generally provide date of the survey; surveyors' names; name of patent and/or a narrative description of the land surveyed; narrative description; acreage of each lot; .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Department of Environmental Conservation. Bureau of Real Property

 

 

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This series consists of field books created by Verplanck Colvin during his survey of the Adirondack region. The volumes are made up predominantly of survey notes and sketches. Many also contain additional notes, topographical sketches, and letters. Indexes, legends, and conversion tables are also frequently .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York State Geological Survey

 

 

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This series consists primarily of research material and articles written by the New York State Paleontologist for publications, such as "The Conservationist," and journals of professional scholarship. Topics include taxonomy, classification, and description of fauna and flora fossils; descriptions of .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Board of Geographic Names

 

 

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This series consists of copies of a dependent re-survey of portions of the boundary of the Allegany Indian Reservation and portions of the village lines within the reservation at Cattauragus County, New York. Included are two copies of a survey map and a forty-four page duplicate copy of associated .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York State Geological Survey

 

 

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This series consists of correspondence, publications drafts, research, and photographs compiled by Lawrence V. Rickard, Assistant New York State Paleontologist. Much of the material concerns the preparation and publication of articles written for a variety of State Museum publications, Topics include .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Syracuse Developmental Center

 

 

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This series consists of field books; engineer's diaries of land surveys and contract work on the Syracuse Psychopathic Hospital; Newark State School and Hospital; Syracuse State Forestry College; the Oneida Fish Hatchery and colonies of the Syracuse State School. Records include engineer's diaries for .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

30

Creator:

New York (State). Surveyor General

 

 

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This series consists of ten field books documenting surveys for proposed state roads. Two of the field books contain data on a state road from Lake Erie to the Hudson River that was proposed and surveyed, but never built. It is unknown whether the other field books refer to any roads that were actually .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

 

 

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These volumes address the enlargement of the Erie and Champlain canals; building of the Oswego, Cayuga and Seneca, Chenango, Black River, and Genesee Valley canals; and appropriation of lands for canal use. They contain drawings, maps, diagrams, tracings, and profiles of much of the State's canal system .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Division of Science and State Museum

 

 

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This series contains field notes of geological investigations, organized into three groupings according to the particular survey to which they pertained: the Geological and Natural History Survey, ca. 1832-1845; the Geological Survey, 1885-1939; and the Capitol District Ground Water Survey, 1938. The .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives