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Creator:
New York (State). Superintendent of Public Works
 
 
Title:  
 
Series:
B0201
 
 
Dates:
1817-1921
 
 
Abstract:  
This series contains minutes of meetings, maps, diagrams, drawings, tracings, decisions, petitions, correspondence, resolutions, contract lists, testimonies, depositions, affidavits, and newspaper clippings. Minutes are missing from this series from early December 1883 through late May 1887 and from .........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives
 

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Creator:
New York (State). Superintendent of Public Works
 
 
Title:  
 
Series:
B0202
 
 
Dates:
1817-1921
 
 
Abstract:  
The indexes allow both name and subject access to Series B0201, Canal Commissioner Minutes. Each index corresponds to a bound volumes of minutes. Unlike the Canal Commissioners Minutes, of which volumes 7-11 are lacking, all of the index volumes are extant..........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives
 

3
Creator:
New York (State). Committee on Canals of New York State
 
 
Title:  
 
Series:
B2458
 
 
Dates:
1899-1900
 
 
Abstract:  
The Committee on Canals of New York State was a special body established by order of Governor Theodore Roosevelt in order to plan for the modernization of the state's canal system, culminating in the construction of the Barge Canal. Most of the correspondence found in this series was sent to and/or .........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives
 

 
Title:  
 
Series:
22561
 
 
Dates:
circa 1906-1950
 
 
Abstract:  
The land appropriation files contain comprehensive legal documentation of the process by which the state acquired lands for the Barge Canal system (pursuant to Laws of 1909, Chapter 391, as amended), and of the state's title to those lands. The files document not only the transfer of legal title to .........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives