Bibliography of the Genesee Region, 1790 to 1990: Results

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1991 HEPBURN, A. BARTON. Artificial Waterways and Commercial Development (with a History of the Erie Canal).
2028 "New York's Canal Memorial of 1816. Memorial of the Citizens of New York in Favour of a Canal Navigation between the Great Western Lakes and the Tide- Waters of the Hudson."
2018 Facts and Observations in Relation to the Origin and Completion of the Erie Canal.
2035 A View of the Grand Canal, from Lake Erie to the Hudson River; Containing a Particular Description of Its Construction, and Historical Summary of the Different Towns, Villages, &c., on the Route of the Canal ....
2045 Internal Improvement. Proceedings of Meetings of the Citizens of Rochester, Buffalo, Lockport and Palmyra, Expressive of the Views of the People of Western New-York, with Reference to the Improvement of the Erie Canal.
1991
2106 "At Home on the Canal."
2030 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 Waters of the Hudson. By a Friend to His Country.
2031 A Southern Route Proposed for the Canal in 1818.
2108 Canal Directory: Rates of Toll and Distances on the Erie and Champlain Canals, as Established by the Canal Board, March 12, 1836, together with a List of Canal Officers, etc.
2085 ADAMS, SAMUEL HOPKINS. The Erie Canal.
1984 ALBION, DAVID. The Rise of New York Port (1815-1860),
5516 ANDERSON, MILDRED LEE HILLS. The Genesee Valley Canal, 1836-1878. 2d ed.
2086 ANDRIST, RALPH K. The Erie Canal.'
2087 ANDRIST, RALPH K. "The Erie Canal Passed this Way."
2014 ARMROYD, GEORGE. A Connected View of the Whole Internal Navigation of the United States, Natural and Artificial, Present and Prospective ...
5515 BAER, CHRISTOPHER T. Canals and Railroads of the Mid- Atlantic States, 1800-1860.
2107 BARCK, DOROTHY C., and ARTHUR B. CARLSON. "125th Anniversary of the Com-pletion of the Erie Canal, with a Checklist of Views and Maps on Display."
1985 CALHOUN, DANIEL H. The American Civil Engineer: Origins and Conflict.
5517 CANAL MUSEUM. A Canalboat Primer on the Canals of New York State.
5518 CANAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK STATE. Field Trip, Cayuga & Seneca Canal, July 29-30, 1961.
2088 CARMER, CARL. "'O the Ee-rye-ee-was risen""
2058 CASE, WHEELER C. "The Genesee Valley Canal."
2089 CHALMERS, HARVEY, II, and JOHN H. FLANDREAU. The Birth of the Erie Canal.
2090 CHALMERS, HARVEY, II, and JOHN H. FLANDREAU. How the Irish Built the Erie.
2039 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. Report on the Canals of New-York, by the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New-York on Railway and Canal Legislation.
1986 CHAMBERLAIN, HARRISON. "Water Transportation and Packet Lines."
1987 CHAMBERLAIN, HARRISON. "Seneca Lock Navigation Company."
2040 CHAPMAN, GEORGE W., comp. Manual of Canal Laws Relating to the New York State Canals; with References to the Decision of the Courts, the Canal Board and the Canal Appraisers, and a Chronological List of All the Statutes of This State,of a Public Nature, Relating to the Canals, from 1791 to August 1873. Together with the Canal Regulations, Rules, Forms, Rates of Toll, Names of Places, Table of Distances, etc., etc., Now in Force, as Established by the Canal Board.
2041 CHILD & BACKUS (firm.) The Edward Backus Method for Propelling Canal Boars by Steam.
2015 CLINTON, DE WITT (Pseud. “Atticus”). Remarks on the Proposed Canal, from Lake Erie to the Hudson River.
2016 CLINTON, DE WITT. (Pseud. “Tacitus”). The Canal Policy of the State of New York: Delineated in a Letter to Robert Troup, Esquire.
2071 COOLEY, LYMAN E. Location of Barge Canal and Harbor at Rochester, N.Y.
2091 DRAGO, HARRY S. Canal Days in America: The History and Romance of Old Towpaths and Waterways.
1988 ELLIS, DAVID M. "Rise of the Empire State, 1790-1820."
2042 ELY, ALFRED. Enlargement of Canal Locks of New York for National Defense. Speech of Hon. Alfred Ely, of New York, Delivered in the House of Representatives, Monday, June 30, 1862.
2109 ENNIS, DAVID. "Navigating on the Erie Canal."
2072 FAIRLIE, JOHN A. "The New York Canals."
1989 FILANTE, RONALD W. "A Note on the Economic Viability of the Erie Canal, 1825-1860."
2073 FINCH, ROY G. "The New York State Barge Canal and Its Operation."
2110 FOREMAN, EDWARD R. Duttenhofer's , Drawing of the First Aqueduct at Roch-ester.
2111 FOREMAN, EDWARD R. "Little Boys and Packet Boats."
2112 FOREMAN, EDWARD R. Canal Basins in Rochester.
5519 GARRITY, RICHARD G. Canal Boatman: My Life on Upstate Waterways.
2020 GEDDES, GEORGE. "The Erie Canal. Origin and History of the Measures that Led to Its Construction."
5520 GODFREY, FRANK H. The Godfrey Letters: Capt. Frank H. Godfrey Tells About His Days on the Canals.
2017 GOLDEN, CADWALLADER. 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.
2059 GOLDTHWAIT, LILLIAN. comp. A Bibliographic History of the Genesee Valley Canal, 1825-1850.
1990 GOODRICH, CARTER, ed. Government Promotion of Canals and Railroads, 1800-1890.
5521 GRASSO, THOMAS X. The Canals and Brief History of Rochester: and Eastern Monroe County.
2021 HAINES, CHARLES G. Considerations on the Great Western Canal, from the Hudson to Lake Erie; With a View of Its Expence, Advantages, and Progress.
2113 HANYAN, CRAIG R. "China and the Erie Canal."
2092 HARLOW, ALVIN F. Old Towpaths: The Story of the American Canal Era.
2043 HAVEMEYER, WILLIAM F. Message of the Mayor of the City of New York to the Common Council in Reference to the Pending Amendment to the State Con-stitution Relative to Funding the Canal and General Fund Debts.
2044 HAWLEY, JESSE. An Essay on the Enlargement of the Erie Canal ...
2023 HAWLEY, MERWIN A. "The Erie Canal. Its Origin Its Resources and Its Necessity."
2024 HAWLEY, MERWIN A. "The Erie Canal. Its Origin Considered in Reference to Gouverneur Morris, Joshua Forman, James Geddes and Jesse Hawley."
2022 HAWLEY, MERWIN A. "Origin of the Erie Canal. Embracing a Synopsis of the Essays of the Hon. Jesse Hawley, Published in 1807."
2074 HILL, HENRY W. "An Historical Review of Waterways and Canal Construction in New York State.
2060 HOLTON, GLADYS REID. The Genesee Valley Canal.
2025 HOSACK, DAVID. Memoir of DeWitt Clinton: with an Appendix, Containing Numerous Documents, Illustrative of the Principal Events of His Life.
2093 HOTCHKISS, WILLIAM O. Early Days of the Erie Canal--Adventures in Statesmanship and Canal Transport.
2094 HULBERT, ARCHER BUTLER.
2115 IVORY, PAUL.W. "Packet Boat Runners on the Erie Canal."
2116 JENSEN, ALBERT C. "Building the Erie Canal."
2095 KIMBALL, FRANCIS P. New York--The Canal State: The Story of America's Great Water Route from the Lakes to the Sea, Builder of East and West; with a Discussion of the St. Lawrence Treaty.
5522 LANGBEIN, W.B. “Hydrology and Environmental Aspects of Erie Canal (1817-99).”
2117 LEE, FLORENCE. A Guide to Canal Sites within Monroe County,
2096 LOGAN, NANCY A. "Look for a Post!"
2075 LONG, C. EDWARD. "Proposed Allegheny-Genesee Waterways Links Vital Inland Water Systems."
2118 MADDEN, EMILY A. "Where Was DeWitt Clinton July 4, 1817?"
5523 MADDEN, EMILY A. Indexes to the
1995 MADDEN, EMILY, and ROBERT S. ROSE. Listing and Index of Maps, Plans, Profiles, Pictures, and. Photographs of Canals of New York State in Annual Re-ports of State Engineer and Surveyor through 1905, Canal Commissioners, Superintendent of Public Works on Canals through 1905.
2062 MADDEN, EMILY. List of Maps, Plans of Structures, and Profiles on the Genesee Valley Canal which Have Been Microfilmed.
5524 MADDOX, VIVIENNE D. “Effect of the Erie Canal on Building and Planning in Syracuse, Palmyra, Rochester, and Lockport, New York.”
2063 MARSH, HORACE P. Rochester and Its Early Canal Days: Reminiscences of the Author, While Engaged on the New York State Waterways, the Erie, Genesee Valley, Black River, and Other Lateral Canals.
1996 MATHEWS, LOIS KIMBALL. "The Erie Canal and the Settlement of the West."
1992 McILWRAITH, THOMAS. "Freight Capacity and Utilization of the Erie and Great Lakes Canals before 1850."
1993 McKELVEY, BLAKE. Rochester and the Erie Canal.
1994 McKELVEY, BLAKE. The Erie Canal: Mother of Cities.
2061 MCVEAN, ALBERT F. "Canal Boats and Boat Captains."
2097 MERRILL, ARCH. "Rochester 'The Young Lion,' Child of the Erie Canal."
1997 MILLER, NATHAN A. The Enterprise of a Free People--Aspects of Economic Development in New York State during the Canal Period, 1792-1838.
2119 MORAN, EUGENE F. "The Erie Canal as I have Known It."
2065 N.Y ASSEMBLY. Report of the Select Committee of the Assembly of 1846, upon the Investigation of Frauds in the Expenditure of the Public Monies upon the Canals of the State of New York.
2046 N.Y. CANAL APPRAISERS. Awards and Testimony in the Claims of the Rochester Mill Owners, for the Diversion of the Waters of the Genesee River, for the Supply of the Erie and Genesee Valley Canals, Heard by the Canal Appraisers, under Chapter 462, Laws of 1855.
2027 N.Y. CANAL COMMISSIONER. Laws of the State of New York, in Relation to the Erie and Champlain Canals, Together with the Annual Reports of the Canal Commissioners and other Document ....
2026 N.Y. CANAL COMMISSIONER. The Official Reports of the Cann: 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 ...
2121 N.Y. COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE A Certified Copy of the Register of Canal Boats Kept in the Comptroller's Office, Showing Their Names and Owners, as They Stook upon the Register on the 1st January, 1839.
2122 N.Y. ERIE CANAL CENTENNIAL COMMISSION. The Erie Canal Centennial Celebration, 1925; the Final Report of the Erie Canal Centennial Commission Sub-mitted to the Governor and the Legislature ...
2067 N.Y. LAWS, STATUTES. Acts Relating to the Sodus Canal.
2076 N.Y. LEGISLATURE. Report of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Barge Canal.
1998 N.Y. Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee on Preservation and Re-storation of Historic Sites, 1957-58. Report ...
5525 N.Y. SENATE. Subcommittee on Inland Ports and Waterways. Task Force on Critical Problems. Which Way for our Waterways? A Report on the New York State Barge Canal and the Upstate Ports.
1999 N.Y. STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS. The Canal Courier.
2123 N.Y. STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS. Erie Canal: History of the Canal that Made New York the Empire State from 1817 to the Present. An Exhibit Porto- folio by the New York State Council on the Arts for the New York Museums Collaborative.
2077 N.Y. State Engineer and Surveyor. Report on the Barge Canal from the Hudson River to the Great Lakes.
2120 NARAMORE, SALLY. "South of Court Street, the Weighlock."
2064 NAYLOR, HARRIETT. "The Great Canal Celebration of September 1, 1840."
2047 NEW YORK STEAM CABLE TOWING COMPANY. The New York Steam Cable Towing Company. Capital Stock, $500,000. ...
2000 NIEMI, ALBERT W., JR. "A Further Look at Interregional Canals and Economic Specialization: 1820-1840."
2001 NORTON, JOHN R. "New York State Government and the Economy: 1819-1846."
2099 O'DONNELL, THOMAS F. "Notes for a Bibliography of the Canals of New York."
2124 O'DONNELL, THOMAS F. "'I'm Afloat!' on the Raging Erie."
2048 O'REILLY, HENRY, and HUGH ALLEN, comp. Proceedings of the New-York State Conventions for Rescuing the Canals from the Ruin with Which They Are Threatened
5526 PALMER, RICHARD. “The Canal and the Stagecoach.” "
2098 PARKER, ARTHUR C. "Influence of the Erie Canal in the Development of New York State."
2066 PARKER, ARTHUR C. "The Old Genesee Valley Canal."
2029 PORTER, PETER B. Mr. P.B. Porter's Speech or. internal Improvements. De-livered in the House of Representatives, on the Eighth of February, 1810.
2049 RAFETER, GEORGE W. Report on the Water Supply of the Western Division of the Erie Canal.
2002 RANSOM, ROGER L. "Interregional Canals and Economic Specialization in the Antebellum United States."
2100 RAPP, MARVIN A. Canal Water and Whiskey: Tall Tales from the Erie Canal Country.
2101 ROBISON, BRUCE. "De Witt Clinton and the Erie Canal."
2078 ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Genesee River: The Largest and Most Important Stream from the South.
2079 ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Twenty Good Reasons Why You Should Vote No
2050 RUGGLES, SAMUEL B. Report upon the Finances and Internal Improvements of the State of New-York, 1838.
2051 RUGGLES, THOMAS C. Report of Mr. Thomas Colden Ruggles, Civil Engineer, Appointed by the Chamber of Commerce to Ascertain the Speed of Steam Canal Boats Navigating the Erie Canal, and Its Depth of Water. October 7, 1875.
2052 RUGGLES, THOMAS C. Vindication in 1849 of the Canal Policy of 1838.
2114 RUSTED, SHIRLEY COX. Sail the Shining Waters: Canal Lore from Monroe County, N.Y.
2080 SCHOFF, WILFRED. "The New York State Barge Canal."
2125 SCRANTOM, EDWIN. "Life on the Canal."
2081 SEVERANCE, FRANK G. ed. "Papers Relating to Canal Enlargement in New York State."
2003 SHAW, RONALD. "Rochester's Erie Canal: The Pride of a Generation."
2004 SHAW, RONALD. A History of the Erie Canal, 1807-1850, with. Particular Ref erence to Western New York.
2005 SHAW, RONALD. Erie Water West: A History of the Erie Canal 3792-1854.
2006 SMITH, WALTER B. "Wage Rates on the Erie Canal, 1828-1882."
2068 SODUS CANAL COMPANY. Sodus Canal,
2069 SODUS CANAL COMPANY. Great Sodus Bay, and the Sodus Canal.
5527 SPRINGER, ETHEL M., and THOMAS F. HAHN. Canal Boat Children on the Chesapeake and Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York Canals.
5528 STELTER, JOHN H. “The Eric Canal and Freemasonry.”
2082 SUMNER, JOHN D. New York State Barge Canal Traffic.
2070 SWIFT, JOSEPH G. Reports and Estimates, for Uniting Lake Ontario with the Erie Canal, at Sodus Bay. Oct. 1831.
2007 THOMPSON, D.G. BRINTON. "Samuel B. Ruggles and His Correction with the Erie Canal."
2054 TRACY, HENRY. "Report of the Canal Commissioners as to the Supply of Water between Tonawanda and Montezuma."
2053 TRACY, HENRY. "Report on the Cost and Policy of Constructing Reservoirs of Conesus, Hemlock, Honeoye and Canadice Lakes."
2055 TREMAIN, HENRY E. The Canal Railway. Argument of Gen. Henry Edwin Tremain of New York City, before the Senate Canal Committee.
2032 TROUP, ROBERT. 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.
2033 TROUP, ROBERT. A Letter to the Honorable Brockholst Livingston, Esqu., One of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, on the Lake Canal Policy of the State of New-York.
2056 TRUESDALE, DOROTHY S. "The Canal Steamer 'Edward Backus.'"
2126 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER. Memorial Art Gallery. "The Erie Canal: Thruway of Yesterday." An Exhibition Featuring the 130th Anniversary of the Opening of Rochester's First Aqueduct over the Genesee River. October, November, December, 1953.
2034 VANDERKEMP. FRANCIS ADRIAN. "Extracts from the Vander Kemp Papers. From the Hudson to Lake Ontario in 1792."
2019 W----. Great Western Canal.
2102 WAGGONER, MADELINE SADLER. The Long Haul West: The Great Canal Era, 1817-1850.
2008 WALKER, BARBARA K., and WARREN S. WALKER, eds. The Erie Canal: Gateway to Empire. Selected Source Materials for College Research Papers.
2036 WATSON, ELKANAH. History of the Rise, Progress, and Existing Condition of the Western Canals in the State of New York, from September, 1788, to the Com-pletion of the Middle Section of the Grand Canal, in 1819, together with the Rise, Progress, and Existing State of Modern Agricultural Societies, on the Berkshire System ...
5529 WCNY Television, Syracuse. The Ditch that Helped Build America.
2037 WESTERN INLAND LOCK NAVIGATION COMPANY. "The Inland Lock Naviagation Company. First Report of the Directors and Engineer."
2038 WESTERN INLAND LOCK NAVIGATION COMPANY. "Second Report of the Western Inland Lock Naviagation Company, 1798."
2083 WHITBECK, FLORENCE. "New York Barge Canal--Expectations and Realizations."
2084 WHITFORD, NOBLE E. History of the Barge Canal of New York State.
2009 WHITFORD, NOBLE E. History of the Canal System of the State of New York together with Brief Histories of the Canals of the United States and Canada.
2010 WHITFORD, NOBLE E. "Effects of the Erie Canal on New York History."
2011 WILLOUGHBY, WILLIAM B. "The Impact of the Erie Canal."
2012 WILLOUGHBY, WILLIAM B. "The Inception of the Erie and the Champlain Canal Projects."
2013 WYLD, LIONEL D., ed. 40'x28'x4': The Erie Canal--150 Years.
2104 WYLD, LIONEL D. Low Bridge: Folklore and the Erie Canal.
2105 WYLD, LIONEL D. "Boaters and Broomsticks."
2103 WYLD, LIONEL D. "Notes for a Yorker Dictionary of Canales."
5530 WYLD, LIONEL D. The Erie Canal: A Bibliography.
2057 ZORNOW, WILLIAM F. "Lincoln and the Great Lakes Seaway."

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