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Canals -- New York (State)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Black River and Utica Railroad records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064937638]
Identifier: 1143

Black River Canal photographs

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

Central New York transportation documents and flour trade correspondence

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938396]
Identifier: 65

Cheever and McIntyre families papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3353

Eastern New York State miscellany

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064937604]
Identifier: 1066

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.