Card file index to Erie Canal construction and improvements, [ca. 1833-1915] (bulk 1896).

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Card file index to Erie Canal construction and improvements, [ca. 1833-1915] (bulk 1896).

The series consists of a card file, obviously incomplete, that apparently indexes Erie Canal surveys, construction, and/or claims for damage. Part may be an index to Middle Division field books (found in series B0730, Engineer's Field Books Pertaining to the Construction of the State's Canal System). Such books were compilations of work done in the field while surveying, building or providing maintenance to the canal and its structures.

0.25 cu. ft. (ca. 900 cards)

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New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

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Legislation of 1903 directed the State Engineer and Surveyor and the Superintendent of Public Works to improve the Erie, Oswego, and Champlain canals. Where required, new bridges were to be built either to replace old ones or if rendered necessary by the new location of the canals. From the description of Canal bridge reference lists, [ca. 1917] (New York State Archives). WorldCat record id: 80731051 When the United States entered the First World War in 1917, the New York St...