St. Lawrence Seaway collection, 1916-1959.

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St. Lawrence Seaway collection, 1916-1959.

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Collection consists of scrapbooks, notes, photographs, clippings, and pamphlets collected by Carleton Mabee relating to early attempts to improve navigation on the St. Lawrence River, other inland navigation and hydroelectric power projects, natural resources of the St. Lawrence Valley, construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway, and public reaction to it; speeches, pamphlets, and clippings collected by Lewis K. Sillcox on the struggle to win Congressional approval and public acceptance of the Seaway during the 1930s and 1940s, including material published by anti-Seaway groups such as the Association of American Railroads and the National St. Lawrence Project Conference; reports, pamphlets, maps, speeches, photographs, Congressional hearings and reports, and legal papers such as briefs, statements, and decisions concerning hydroelectric power and the development of the St. Lawrence Seaway collected by George S. Reed, attorney and officer of the Power Authority of the State of New York; and scrapbooks of clippings on the Seaway from North Country newspapers during the years of its construction, 1954-1959, possibly compiled by Andrew Peters.

ca. 36 linear ft.

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Owen D. Young Library. Special Collections.

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National St. Lawrence Project Conference (Washington, D.C.)

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Peters, Andrew,

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United States. Congress

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Bills of the 96th Congress to provide for temporary increases in the public debt limit, and for other purposes. From the description of Public debt legislation, 96th Congress : legislative history of public debt legislation, 1979-1980. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 243776779 Bill of the 96th Congress to impose a windfall profit tax on domestic crude oil, and for other purposes. From the description of Crude oil windfall profit tax act of 1980 ...

Sillcox, L. K. (Lewis Ketcham), 1886-

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Reed, George S.

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Power Authority of the State of New York

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CURRENT FUNCTIONS. The Power Authority is responsible for providing an adequate supply of safe and economical power for the citizens of New York State. It accomplishes this by financing, constructing, and operating electric generation and transmission facilities in New York State. Construction is financed through the sale of tax-exempt bonds and may be undertaken by the authority on its own or in cooperation with private utilities. Operational costs are funded by revenue...

Association of American railroads

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The Association of American Railroads formed in 1934 primarily to represent the freight railroad industry. The East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company was a short-line narrow gauge railroad, chartered in 1856 and built in 1872-1874 to service the coal fields of the remote Broad Top Mountain area of south-central Pennsylvania and to haul that product to the Pennsylvania Railroad at Mount Union or to on-line iron furnaces. The East Broad Top ceased operations in 1956 but ...

Mabee, Carleton, 1914-....

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