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Canals.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Canvass White papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 78 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065254009]
Identifier: 609
Abstract

Papers documenting canal engineer and cement manufacturer Canvass White's career.

Dates: 1814-1835.

Elias W. Cady papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2399
Abstract

Letters to Cady and deeds, receipts, inventories, sermons, and poems.

Dates: 1801-1857.

Ernest Ingersoll White papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1843
Abstract

Papers of E.I. White and his family.

Dates: 1820-1960.

Gerard Hendrik Matthes papers

 Collection — Box 43: [Barcode: 31924113866549]
Identifier: 3017
Abstract

Professional papers of Gerard Hendrik Matthes, a hydraulic engineer and member of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Dates: 1822-1957.

J. DeMotte Smith and Henry D. Barto papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 304
Scope and content

Includes material concerning legal cases of J. DeMotte Smith and Henry D. Barto, such as briefs, deeds, mortgages, bonds, indentures, financial statements and correspondence; legal papers of the Auble Family; and bills and inventories sent to G. W. Cole of Havana, Chemung County (now Montour Falls, Schuyler County), New York, concerning the Elmira and Corning Line.



Dates: 1800-1892.

Juan Pattison papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 6 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240545]
Identifier: 866
Scope and content Letters, advertisements, and clippings pertaining to Pattison's Improved Oscillating Engine, and his work on iron-clad vessels for Corning, Winslow & Co.; also letters from Syracuse, New York to his sister and brother-in-law Anita and John Whittle of Chorley, England, regarding his writing on engineering subjects, his interest in several railroad and canal projects, and in particular a projected railroad across the Isthmus of Panama (1868-1869), his attempts to promote his projects with...
Dates: 1856-1876.