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Canals -- New York (State)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Black River and Utica Railroad records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064937638]
Identifier: 1143
Scope and content

Correspondence between Samuel Case and John Thorn relating to subscriptions for stock to expand the Railroad to Lyons Falls, Lewis County, 1865-1866; work estimates for building and repair on the railroad; and other items on railroads and the enlargement of the Erie and Oswego Canals.

Dates: 1854-1866.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Black River and Utica Railroad records

Black River Canal photographs

 Collection — Manuscript box 28 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065245692]
Identifier: 853
Scope and content

Photos of locks and embankments above Westernville, New York, taken by C.H. Sundell.

Dates: 1949.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Black River Canal photographs

Central New York transportation documents and flour trade correspondence

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938396]
Identifier: 65
Scope and content Correspondence (chiefly business and financial dealings) concerning transportation in central New York State, including Ithaca, Syracuse, Owego, Elmira, and Albany. Topics include the Ithaca and Owego Rail Road, the New York and Erie Railroad, land purchases, steamboats to Ithaca and Owego, a mill owned by Francis A. Bloodgood, the Chemung Canal, Ithaca canals and streams, a proposed turnpike road from the head of Seneca Lake to Elmira, and public opinion and politics in Ithaca. Also...
Dates: 1678-1683 and 1823-1934,-1823-1866 (bulk).
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Central New York transportation documents and flour trade correspondence

Cheever and McIntyre families papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3353
Scope and content Correspondence, bills and receipts, inventories, registers, and legal cases of the Cheever and McIntyre families and business associates. Includes inventory of the estate of Samuel Cheever, 1875; leases, blueprints of roads; deeds; other material relating to Edwin Cheever and and Helen McIntyre; and account book titled "Erie Canal, c.1836-c.1838. The papers of the brothers James and Archibald W. McIntyre consist of personal letters, wills, deeds, and business documents; a series of letters...
Dates: 1797-1939.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cheever and McIntyre families papers

Eastern New York State miscellany

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064937604]
Identifier: 1066
Scope and content Pamphlets on legal, social, and commercial matters, published in cities including Albany, Utica, and New York City. Included are the Annual address delivered before the Medical Society of the State of New York by Laurens Hull (Albany, 1840); An introductory address to the course of lectures, before the Young Men's Association for Mutual Improvement in the City of Albany, by Thomas E. Vermilye (Albany, 1837); the Second annual report of the New-York State Society for the Promotion of...
Dates: 1830-1896.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Eastern New York State miscellany

Gifford family papers

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6028
Abstract

Twenty seven letters, most addressed to Rowland S. Gifford from relatives and friends discussing a cholera epidemic in Albany, family news, the annexation of Texas, the dissolution of the Union, winter shipping on canals, land speculation, farming and buying a farm. Also miscellaneous legal documents including deeds, affidavits and a receipt.

Dates: 1811-1857.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Gifford family papers

H. G. Hotchkiss Essential Oil Company records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 673
Abstract

Includes accounts, correspondence, banking records, broadsides, prices current, market guides and other materials relating to the development of the essential oils industry.

Dates: 1822-1982.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / H. G. Hotchkiss Essential Oil Company records

Henry N. Hinckley local history ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: 6749
Abstract

Printed and manuscript ephemera relating to canals, commerce and banking, education, politics and elections, religion, smoking, theater, travel and transportation, and technical equipment, primarily in Ithaca and Tompkins County.

Dates: 1823-1976.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Henry N. Hinckley local history ephemera

Horatio Seymour papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 694
Abstract

Papers are concerned chiefly with land holdings and business dealings of the Seymour family, and the related Bleecker family and Tibbits family; the development of business in the city of Utica, milling, banking, and iron manufacturing. Other topics include the Saint Mary's Ship Canal and connecting Lake Superior with the lower Great Lakes.

Dates: 1741-1920.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Horatio Seymour papers

John Greig papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1550
Abstract

Correspondence; accounts of purchases, payments, and unsold lands; surveys; tax receipts, contracts, notes, bonds, deeds, powers of attorney; and maps and field notes of the New York Military Tract and city lots of Rochester and Ontario County, New York.

Dates: 1794-1870.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / John Greig papers

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