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This series contains maps, drawings, plans, blueprints, copies of permits, and what appear to be pages torn from the rough minutes of meetings of the Board of Canal Commissioners. The files pertain to the issuance of permits by the Board of Canal Commissioners (later the Office of the Superintendent .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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This series consists of working copies of contract plans used by the Operations and Maintenance Division of the Department of Public Works and predecessor units. These "office copies" include attachments in the form of maps and plans detailing revisions and updates to original plans. Included are hydrologic .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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This series consists of roll survey maps for the enlargement of the Middle Division of the Erie Canal. Maps show red lines; blue lines; sectional divisions; old and new channels; profiles; existing structures; names of property owners; and adjacent roads, streets, and buildings. The series also includes .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

 

 

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Consisting mostly of maps, drawings, specifications, and related material, these plans show proposed work for which contracts were let during the "Nine Million Dollar Improvement" of the Erie and Oswego canals. In addition to particulars of a job site (elevations, structures, proposed improvements), .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Division of Canals and Waterways. Syracuse Office

 

 

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This series consists of plans, drawings, and specifications used in building the state's buoy boat fleet at the Syracuse Canal Shops. Buoy boats were used to maintain and refuel kerosene lighted buoys on the state's canal system. Also included are typed and handwritten lists of labor, materials, equipment, .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

 

 

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This series consists of maps, profiles, plans, survey documents, diagrams, estimates, the final report on the proposed improvement of the Chemung Canal. Also included are daily journals of Resident Engineer Louis A. Burns who was in charge of the project and prepared the final report. Also included .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

 

 

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The volume contains plates of plans, drawings, profiles and location maps relating to the improvement and enlargement of the Barge Canal. Locks, dams, and bridges are frequently represented. Generally the plates depict: typical channel sections, prism walls and the types of wall and bank protection .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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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 .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

 

 

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This is a series of location maps and illustrated estimates of raw materials and quantities of excavated material for proposed construction of gun boat locks on the western division of the Erie Canal. The maps show the location of proposed locks; the new and existing canal channels; towpath; existing .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Executive Department

 

 

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This series documents the planning and estimating work done to various structures along the state's canals. The records include maps and plans of locations and structures for work done on the Erie (Middle and Western divisions only), Genesee Valley, Chemung, and Oswego canals, and at least one sheet .........

 

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New York State Archives