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United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. [Correspondence and papers of the U.S. and Mexican Boundary Survey] [microform].

Title: [Correspondence and papers of the U.S. and Mexican Boundary Survey] [microform]. 1849-1857.

ArchivalResource: ca. 4000 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41383564 View

McNeill, William Gibbs, 1801-1853. [Letter from William Gibbs McNeill to T.B. Wales], January 19, 1835.

Title: [Letter from William Gibbs McNeill to T.B. Wales], January 19, 1835.

Letter discusses extending a branch of the Boston and Providence Railroad to Dedham. Includes cost of project.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/159940770 View

Wurts, John S. (John Sparhawk), 1876-1958,. Wurts family papers, 1699-1964.

Title: Wurts family papers, 1699-1964.

The Wurts family papers are a collection assembled by John S. Wurts from various ancestors on both the male and female lines. They include family and business correspondence, diaries, estate papers, maps, engineering drawings, and financial papers such as bills and receipts, promissory notes, and accounts.

ArchivalResource: 9 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122558812 View

Imlay, Richard, 1784-1867. Papers, 1836-1858.

Title: Papers, 1836-1858.

The papers consist of twenty-three items relating to Imlay's subsequent marketing of his patent rights, particularly on southern railroad lines. They include testimonials, instructions for computing royalty charges, and lists of railroads that had settled with Imlay. One item concerns J. T. England's improvement in car-couplings.

ArchivalResource: 23 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86119434 View

Swift, J. G. (Joseph Gardner), 1783-1865. Memoir from the diaries of J.G. Swift.

Title: Memoir from the diaries of J.G. Swift. 1807-1865.

Chief, U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, first graduate. U.S. Military Academy, Superintendent, 1812-1814. Memoir includes a brief family history, details of service as an engineering cadet, memories of cadet days at the Military Academy from 1 October 1801 - 12 October 1802, describing the curriculum, Kosciusko's garden and professor George Barron. Later entries talk of the fire in the USMA Colonel's quarters, the contracts (6 Jan 1817) with John Forsyth of Newburgh for the construction of several brick quarters at West Point, orders, 13 Jan 1817, sent from Swift to Capt. Partridge telling the latter to resume function as Superintendent of USMA. Swift discusses the marriage of his sister to G.W. Whistler, and the bond of friendship between himself and Whistler, ties with J.L. Smith, Thomas Sully, William G. McNeill, Sylvanus Thayer, and G.W. Cullum as well as family matters. Duties as a civil engineer and travels are noted in Swift's memoirs.

ArchivalResource: 2 v., bound ; 33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9403869 View

Lockman, DeWitt McClennan, 1870-1957,. [Map of the area later bounded by 4th and 6th Streets, 2nd Avenue and the Bowery, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)].

Title: [Map of the area later bounded by 4th and 6th Streets, 2nd Avenue and the Bowery, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)]. [between 1838 and 1847]

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms., col. ; 46 x 59 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82342741 View

Alexander, John H., 1812-1867. John H. Alexander papers, 1824-1857 (majority 1835-1850)

Title: John H. Alexander papers

John H. Alexander (1812-1867) had a varied career as a lawyer, civil engineer, surveyor, geologist, and teacher at the universities of Pennsylvania and Maryland. As Chief Engineer of Maryland, he surveyed the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad. He also conducted a coast survey for the federal government, and, as Maryland's first geologist, he mapped coal deposits in the state. Important subjects documented in the collection include the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, slack water navigation, canal legislation, surveys, contracts, railroads, Indian tribes, real estate, and Alexander's family life. The collection consists of reports, pamphlets, essays, and correspondence.

ArchivalResource: .75 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1747 View

Boston and Albany Railroad Co. Records, 1831-1898 (inclusive).

Title: Records, 1831-1898 (inclusive).

Correspondence, minute books, stockholders' records, clerks' papers, and other records of Boston & Albany Railroad Company and of the railroads which became part of the Boston and Albany system: Boston & Worcester Railroad Corporation, 1835-1870, 119 volumes; Western Railroad Corporation, 1833-1898, 175 volumes (included in the latter are papers of George W. Whistler, engineer, 1839-1841, William H. Swift, 1837-1839, and George Bliss, agent, 1839-1841); Albany & West Stockbridge Railroad Company, 1834-1877, 25 volumes; Pittsfield & North Adams Railroad Corporation, 1846-1872, 2 volumes.

ArchivalResource: 66 linear ft. (311 v., 28 cases)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269580906 View

McNeill, William Gibbs, 1801-1853. Material pertaining to a proposed branch railroad diverging from the Boston and Providence Railroad and terminating at Taunton, [18--].

Title: Material pertaining to a proposed branch railroad diverging from the Boston and Providence Railroad and terminating at Taunton, [18--].

Report written by William Gibbs McNeill and Charles Calhoun, engineers, on the feasibility and cost of the project; together with letter from McNeill to William A. Crocker and one from Calhoun to McNeill.

ArchivalResource: 6 sheets.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70968039 View

Boston and Albany Railroad Co. records, 1829-1916 (inclusive), 1831-1875 (bulk)

Title: Boston and Albany Railroad Co. records 1829-1916 (inclusive), 1831-1875 (bulk)

The records of the Boston and Albany Railroad Co., its predecessors and branches, circa 1829 to 1916. Includes directors' records, stock records, transportation and engineering records and surveys, financial records, and correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 114 linear feet (342 v., 69 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/bak00034/catalog View