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Irish immigrant participation in the construction of the Erie Canal, by George J. Svejda.
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- [Washington] Division of History, U. S. Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, 1969.
- 1969
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IEH 72-380 Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
How the Irish built the Erie.
- Text
- New York, Bookman Associates [1965, c1964]
- 1965-1964
- 1 Item
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Stars in the water; the story of the Erie Canal [by] George E. Condon.
- Text
- Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1974.
- 1974
- 1 Item
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The Erie canal, 1817-1967, by Clarence O. Lewis.
- Text
- Lockport, N. Y., 1967.
- 1967
- 1 Item
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Chattey's island / James Ehmann.
- Text
- New Haven, Conn. : Ticknor & Fields, 1982.
- 1982
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JLD 82-1837 Offsite The State of New York : from the most recent surveys.
- Cartographic
- Hartford, Conn. : E. Huntington : Sold by Andrus & Judd, 1835.
- 1835
- 1 Item
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Map of the state of New York.
- Cartographic
- Philadelphia : S. Augustus Mitchell, 1831.
- 1831
- 1 Item
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Sail the shining waters-- : canal lore from Monroe County, N.Y. : commemorating the Erie Canal Sesquicentennial / by Shirley Cox Husted.
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- [Rochester, N.Y. : Monroe County Historian's Office, c1976]
- 1976
- 1 Item
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DeWitt Clinton papers
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- 1790-1835
Erie Canal; history of the canal that made New York the Empire State from 1817 to the present. [Introductory statement by Louise Broecker.
- Text
- New York, New York State Council on the Arts, c1971]
- 1971
- 1 Item
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Boaters and broomsticks : tales & historical lore of the Erie Canal / Lionel D. Wyde.
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- Utica, N.Y. : North Country Books, c1986.
- 1986
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IRM (Erie Canal) 91-9704 Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Clinton's big ditch / written by David Frederick ; illustrated by Ruth Cameron.
- Text
- New York : Board of Education, City of New York, [1940?]
- 1940
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *KL 91-481 Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Rare Books+ 23-96 Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Not available - Please for assistance.Fort Hunter : Canal-town, U.S.A. / by David H. Veeder.
- Text
- Fort Hunter, N.Y. : Fort Hunter Canal Society, c1968.
- 1968
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JAX G-937 Offsite Fugitive deckhand : a novel of the canalways of New York State / by Fred G. Godfrey ; illustrated by Holly Ruotolo.
- Text
- Monroe, N.Y. : Library Research Associates, 1990.
- 1990
- 1 Item
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Stereoscopic views of Buffalo, New York [graphic].
- Still image
- [1865?-1905?]
- 1865-1905
- 1 Resource
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- Still image
- [1868?-1885?]
- 1868-1885
- 1 Resource
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- Still image
- [1870?-1900?]
- 1870-1900
- 1 Resource
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- Still image
- [1868?-1905?]
- 1868-1905
- 1 Resource
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- Moving image
- 1811-1834
Always know your pal : children on the Erie Canal / edited by Debbie J. Stack and Donald A. Wilson.
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- Syracuse, N.Y. : Erie Canal Museum, 1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IRM (Erie Canal) 94-3427 Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The amazing impossible Erie Canal / by Cheryl Harness.
- Text
- New York : Macmillan Books for Young Readers, c1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
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Samuel B. Ruggles papers, 1801-1881.
- Mixed material
- 1801-1881
- 1 Resource
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https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/3fa126a0-c61f-012f-d5e9-58d385a7bc34Monument to De Witt Clinton / [Robert Ray].
- Text
- [New York : s.n, 1849?]
- 1849-1860
- 1 Item
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The artificial river : the Erie Canal and the paradox of progress, 1817-1862 / Carol Sheriff.
- Text
- [New York] : Hill and Wang, 1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IRM (Erie Canal) 96-12291 Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Memoir, prepared at the request of a committee of the Common council of the city of New York : and presented to the mayor of the city, at the celebration of the completion of the New York canals / By Cadwallader D. Colden.
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- New York : Printed by order of the corporation of New York, 1825.
- 1825
- 3 Items
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TSB (Colden, C. D. Memoir) Offsite The towpath, by Arch Merrill...
- Text
- [Rochester, N.Y., Printed by L. Heindl & son, 1945]
- 1945-
- 1 Item
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Low bridge! Folklore and the Erie Canal.
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- [Syracuse, N.Y.] Syracuse University Press, 1962.
- 1962
- 1 Item
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Sketches of early Buffalo and the Niagara region. By Sophie C. Becker.
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- Buffalo, N.Y. 1904.
- 1904
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IRM (Buffalo) (Becker, S. C. Sketches of early Buffalo) Offsite The birth of the Erie canal / Harvey Chalmers ; with the collaboration of John H. Flandreau.
- Text
- New York : Bookman Associates, c1960.
- 1960
- 1 Item
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Considerations on the great western canal, from the Hudson to Lake Erie : with a view of its expence, advantages, and progress.
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- Brooklyn : Spooner & Worthington, printers, 1818.
- 1818
- 1 Item
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Canal water and whiskey; tall tales from the Erie Canal country, by Marvin A. Rapp. Illustrated by Norman Truesdale.
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- New York, Twayne Publishers [1965]
- 1965
- 1 Item
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Erie water west; a history of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854 [by] Ronald E. Shaw.
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- [Lexington] University of Kentucky Press [1966]
- 1966
- 1 Item
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Erie canal days; a pictorial essay: Albany to Buffalo.
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- [Schenectady, N.Y., 1967]
- 1967
- 2 Items
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The Erie Canal, gateway to empire. edited by Barbara K. and Warren S. Walker.
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- Boston, Heath, [1963]
- 1963
- 1 Item
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Marco Paul's travels and adventures in the pursuit of knowledge : Erie Canal / by the author of Rollo, Jonas, and Lucy books.
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- Boston : T.H. Carter and Co., 1845, c1843.
- 1845-1843
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NAS (Abbott, J. Marco Paul's travels and adventures in the pursuit of knowledge. 1845 (Carter)) 1845 Offsite Picturesque Erie : (a souvenir) / by J. Henry Smythe.
- Text
- Philadelphia : Sunshine Pub. Co., 1885.
- 1885
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NBI (Smythe, J. H. Picturesque Erie) Offsite Penn Central Transportation Company records, 1796-1986, bulk (1835-1974).
- Mixed material
- 1796-1986
Five years on the Erie Canal: an account of some of the most striking scenes and incidents, during five years' labor on the Erie Canal, and other inland waters, by Dea M. Eaton, missionary of the American Bethel Society.
- Text
- Utica, Bennett, Backus, & Hawley, 1845.
- 1845
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ZKXD (Eaton, M. Five years on the Erie canal) Offsite Booth's history of New York. v. 5 [graphic]
- Still image
- 1801-approximately 1886.
- 1801-1886
- 1 Resource
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- Ithaca, N.Y., Published for the American Historical Association [by] Cornell University Press [1962]
- 1962
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TAH (Miller, N. Enterprise of a free people) Offsite A geological and agricultural survey of the district adjoining the Erie canal in the state of New York. Taken under the direction of the Hon. Stephen Van Rensselaer. Part I. Containing a description of the rock formations; together with a geological profile, extending from the Atlantic to Lake Erie.
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- Albany, Printed by Packard & Van Benthuysen, 1824.
- 1824
- 3 Items
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PVC (Eaton, A. Geological and agricultural survey) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VPY (Eaton, A. Geological agricultural survey) Offsite Rochester and its early canal days : reminiscences of the author, while engaged on the New York state water-ways, the Erie, Genesee Valley, Black River, and other lateral canals ... / by H.P. Marsh.
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- Rochester, N.Y. : Democrat and Chronicle Print, 1914.
- 1914
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IRM p.v. 17 no. 1-14 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Not available - In use until 2024-01-26 - Please for assistance.The official reports of the Canal Commissioners of the state of New York, and the acts of the Legislature respecting navigable communications between the great western and northern lakes and the Atlantic ocean; with perspicuous maps and profiles. Published at the request of the Board of Canal Commissioners.
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- New-York, T. W. Mercein, printers, 1817.
- 1817
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text (Parsons) VDCP (New York (State). Canal Commission. Official reports. 1817 (174, 12 p.)) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Official reports of the Canal Commissioners of the State of New York, and the acts of the Legislature respecting navigable communications between the great western and northern lakes and the Atlantic Ocean; with perspicuous maps and profiles. Published at the request of the Board of Canal Commissioners.
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- Newburgh, B.F. Lewis & Shelton, 1817.
- 1817
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text (Parsons) VDCP (New York (State). Canal Commission. Official reports. 1817 (112, 12 p.)) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Laws of the state of New York, in relation to the Erie and Champlain canals : together with the annual reports of the canal commission ers, and other documents requisite for a complete official history of those works. Also, correct maps delineating the routes of the Erie and Champlain canals, and designating the lands through which they pass... / published by authority of the state.
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- Albany, N.Y. : E. and E. Hosford, printers, 1825.
- 1825
- 3 Items
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TSD (New York States. Law in Relation...) v. 1 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TSD (New York States. Law of the state...) v. 2 (1825) Offsite Description of a direct route for the Erie Canal, at its eastern termination, with estimates of its expense, and comparative advantages / by John Randel, jun.
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- Albany, G. J. Loomis, 1822.
- 1822
- 2 Items
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Remarks on the importance of the contemplated grand canal, between Lake Erie and the Hudson River.
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- [n.p.] 1812.
- 1812
- 4 Items
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A serious appeal to the wisdom and patriotism of the Legislature of the state of New York; on the subject of a canal communication between the Great Western Lakes and the tide waters of the Hudson. By A Friend to his Country. Printed for the author.
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- [n.p.] 1816.
- 1816
- 1 Item
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A vindication of the claim of Elkanah Watson, Esq. to the merit of projecting the Lake Canal Policy, as created by the Canal Act of March, 1792 : And also, a vindication of the claim of the late General Schuyler, to the merit of drawing that act, and procuring its passage through the legislature / By Robert Troup.
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- Geneva, N.Y. : Printed by James Bogert, 1821.
- 1821
- 2 Items
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Erie canal / by Jacob Abbott.
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- New York : Harper & brothers, 1852.
- 1852
- 2 Items
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