Found 91 collections related to Maps

This collection is comprised of 8 volumes that document the creation and management of the Croton Aqueduct (1835-1884). Volume topics include: land acquisition for the aqueduct (1835-1869); disbursements for the aqueduct (1854-1864); meteorological register kept at Sing Sing (1868-1876), 3rd Division (1865-1867), and at the Croton Dam (1869-1875); a labor time book for the 8th division (1882-1883); and a profile map of the aqueduct created for Chief Engineer Benjamin S. Church (1884) less

Samuel S. Heim was an American explorer and researcher in a topic he called "Biblic geography". Collection consists of Heim's letters, notebooks, maps, and related materials he compiled. Letters from Heim to the New York Public Library concern his research. Notebooks and maps (drawn by Heim) depict his theory that the Americas contain geographic features described in the Bible. less

The collection consists of various legal documents relating to the estate of the Curry family of New York City and Westchester County, New York, including deeds and indentures for properties in Manhattan owned by or bequeathed to various members of the Curry family; a letter of administration relating to the estate of Mary E. Curry; and an account book kept from 1855 to 1857 showing transactions related to the family estate, including mortgage and interest payments, rents collected, taxes, an undertaker's bill, and money lent to various parties. Also present is a developer's map of Washington Heights and upper Manhattan, circa 1900 less

Correspondence and maps relating to the Kennebec Purchase Company (later the Plymouth Company), circa 1754 to 1756. Correspondents include Florentius Vassal, Joseph Sharpe, Timothy Prout, Thomas Vassal, William Shirley, and the Plymouth Company. Also present is an extract of a letter from the Committee of the Kennebec Company with notes on the state of their case for the Attorney General. Hand-colored manuscript maps depict the Kennebec River and country adjacent, including lands claimed by the Kennebec Company, Plymouth Company, and their opponents; and a map of the sea coast from the mouth of the Penobscot River to New London. less

Five field books containing surveys of land lots in the Central New York Military Tract made by surveyor (and later NY State Assembly member) Humphrey Howland by order of General Ledyard. Lots surveyed were in the Cincinnatus, Marcellus, Manlius, Scipio, and Brutus townships, in current Cayuga, Cortland, and Onondaga counties. Each field book includes a manuscript map less

Papers contain letters from J. Neilson Barry, 1943-1959, concerning the routes to Oregon and the far Northwest followed by Robert Stuart and "the Astorians" and others, with numerous sketched maps. Also includes an annotated and illustrated copy of Washington Irving's "Astoria, or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains" (published 1861) with 229 colored maps and marginalia added by Barry in 1943. Barry was an Episcopal priest, researcher, and prolific writer of Pacific Northwest history less

Aaron Burr (1756-1836) was a Revolutionary War soldier, lawyer, United States Senator, and third Vice-President of the United States. Collection consists of miscellaneous letters to and from Aaron Burr, and documents signed by him, 1780-1835, including a letter from his wife Theodosia Prevost Burr, 1786 August; Burr's manuscript map of the Bastrop Grant in Louisiana, enclosed with his letter of 21 Oct 1806 to William Wilkins; and collateral material about Aaron Burr, circa 1800-1950, including newspaper clippings, auction catalog clippings, and printed matter. less

Alfred Seelye Roe (1844-1917) was a historian. Collection consists of journal from Roe's trip to Europe entitled "My Trip Abroad with Notes and Comments on What I Saw and Heard" (1890), describing the trip and his return on the steamer Waesland of the Red Star Line. Includes description of his voyage from New York to Antwerp; visits to Brussels, Cologne, Glasgow, London, Paris, Zurich, and other cities; and an account by Roe of a trip to Nova Scotia in 1894. Also, numerous menus, maps, receipts, tickets, timetables, and other memorabilia. less

The Bleecker, Collins and Abeel families lived in Albany, N.Y. and New York City and were merchants, lawyers and military officers. Collection consists of correspondence, maps, surveys, deeds and land papers, military records, wills, and other papers of the Bleecker and Collins families and of John Abeel of Albany, N.Y. Also includes records of the Western Inland Lock Navigtation Co. and correspondence and notes, 1878-1882, of Mary E. Bleecker concerning genealogy of the Clinton and Genet families. less

Buccaneer's Atlas or Portolano, entitled: "Description des principaux endroites de la Mer du Sud depuis les 52 degrez 30 minutes sud, ou est le d'Etroit du Magellan jusqu'au 41 degrez Nord qui est l'isle de Californie faite sur les lieux par le sr. Jouhan de la Guilabuadiere. Dresse et dessigné les plans qui l'accompagnent sur ses memoires, par le sr. Hanicle ingenieur ordinaire du Roy en l'année 1696." Two hundred twenty pages of descriptive text, accompanied by thirty-five carefully executed colored maps and plans of the ports, harbors, anchorage, islands, etc. along the west coast of America, beginning with the Straits of Magellan, and extending as far as the Gulf of California The author of this volume was one of the celebrated band of buccaneers under the command of M. de Gennes. He was shipwrecked in the Straits of Magellan about 1688, and shortly afterward joined the buccaneering expedition of M. de Beauchesnegouin as second in command. This manuscript seems to have been compiled while on this expedition. In addition to the very exact survey of different harbors and ports, a detailed account is given of the inhabitants of the surrounding country, their manners and customs, etc. The volume also contains a long vocabulary of the buccaneer language Presented to the New York Public Library by Alexander Maitland. There is a description of this manuscript in G. Marcel's "Les Fuégiens à la fin du XVIIe siècle," Paris, 1892 less

Alternate title: "Eighteen hundred miles on horseback." This diary (Sept. 1-Oct. 31, 1892) contains descriptions of a journey made by U.S. Army Lieutenants Bard Pendleton Schenck and Palmer G. Wood from Fort Yates, North Dakota to Yellowstone Park, as well as their return journey through North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming, with frequent mention of local inhabitants and descriptions of the landscape. Includes one map less

Everett Pepperell Wheeler (1840-1925) was an American lawyer and civil service reformer. He was a founder of the New York Bar Association and served for seventeen years as chairman of the executive committee of the New York Civil Service Reform Association. Other organizations he supported were the Citizens Union, the Committee of Seventy, the Reform Club, and the Man Suffrage Association. Collection consists of correspondence, legal and real estate papers, articles, speeches, maps, photograph, and printed matter. General correspondence, 1882-1925, mainly concerns Wheeler's opinions on World War I, Armenian immigration, and womens suffrage. Other correspondence relates to the Citizens Union and the drive for efficient government for New York City, the American Bar Association, the League of Nations, tariff reform, and other topics of interest to Wheeler. Also, his speeches and articles, 1888-1924; maps of the New York area; photograph of Venice in 1882; and printed materials regarding the Citizens Union and political campaigns of 1880. less

Dwight B. Denslow and his wife, Louise A. Denslow, kept this diary during travels by sea and land between November 9, 1861-July 1, 1862. They toured Europe, the Mediterranean, Egypt and the Holy Lands, sailing from Brooklyn, New York. Entries describe a visit to a salt merchant in Hyères; the comments of an Englishman on the Mason & Slidell affair (the Trent Affair); visits to Toulon and Marseilles (January 19, 1862); travels via steamer to Genoa, Leghorn, Naples, Messina, and Malta, where they took the ship "Hydaspe" (formerly the "Lusitania") to Alexandria (February 9, 1862); stopping at the same hotel as Mr. Bronson and his party; and a trip to the Pyramids In addition, entries describe a visit to Mrs. Leider, wife of a Coptic missionary and one-time tutor to the children of Mohammed Ali; a journey up the Nile River beyond Thebes, where the Denslows visited numerous temples and ruins of Karnak and the Pyramids of Giza; their return to Cairo in the company of Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes; and ensuing travels to Alexandria, Joppa and Jerusalem, where they attended the English Church at the same time as the Prince of Wales (April 6, 1862) Later entries describe the Denslow's visit to the Mosque of Omar, the Jordan River, and the site of ancient Jericho (spending Easter Sunday in Jerusalem and going to Bethlehem). They also describe their journey homeward via Joppa, Beyrouth (where they met Dr. Barclay and Rev. Henry Jessup), Tripoli, Sicily, Smyrna, and Constantinople (May 11-14, 1862), where they changed ships for Marseille via Athens From Athens they traveled by railroad through Lyon, Paris, Rouen, and Dieppe, crossing to New Haven, then to London (visiting the International Exhibition on June 9, 1862), Leeds (the home of travel friends Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes), Manchester, and Liverpool. They then sailed on the Cunard ship "Scotia," via Queenstown to Jersey City, arriving at their Williamsburgh home on July 1, 1862 The diary is illustrated with a few pen drawings, primarily maps. It also includes a few loose documents and letters in an envelope less

Collection consists of manuscripts and transcripts of materials on Rockland County, N.Y., and Bergen County, N.J. Includes original manuscripts, photostats, typewritten manuscripts of land papers consisting mainly of 18th century Indian deeds, patents, unrecorded deeds, leases, surveys, and maps. Also, correspondence, family histories, copies of tombstone inscriptions, extracts from early newspapers, and other materials. less

George Kirwan Carr was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade of the British Army. He kept this diary from October 10-December 31, 1832. Entries recount his journey with Captain H. Deeds and Lieutenant R. H. Fitzherbert from Halifax to Boston, Troy, Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, Niagara Falls, Utica, Trenton Falls, Albany, the Catskill Mountains, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D. C., Boston, St. Johns, and Halifax. Carr describes people, points of interest, the Shaker Village, Congress in session, the use of tobacco in Congress, Fanny Kemble at Philadelphia, social manners at a ball in New York, his travel adventures, and other topics Diary also includes a table of distances, two maps, four views, and original verse less

James Ferguson (1710-1776) was a Scottish philosopher, astronomer and engineer. Collection consists of scrapbook containing letters, ca. 1769-1775, by Ferguson, relating to his work and other scientific matters; drawings, pencil sketches, charts, and tables, both printed and original, dating from approximately the 1740s, of astronomical and mechanical discoveries and inventions by Ferguson and others; and materials about Ferguson including maps, clippings, engravings of portraits of Ferguson, and other items. less

The Lamb family included John Lamb (1735-1800), Revolutionary War officer and Collector of the Port of New York and his son General Anthony Lamb (d. ca. 1855). Collection consists of deeds and other land records of John Lamb, Anthony Lamb and other family members, showing their interests in various counties of New York State, with surveys and location maps of the properties. Includes receipt book, 1807-1815, of the estate of Charles Tillinghast. less

Joseph Gidney was a resident of New Paltz, Ulster County, New York. Collection consists of correspondence, accounts, deeds, maps, and other papers of Gidney and his sons Eleazer and Solomon. Includes materials on the early roads in Ulster County, N.Y. less

Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) was a British-born landscape architect who practiced in the U.S. He worked on the designs for the grounds of the U.S. Capitol and the Smithsonian Institution. In 1857 he began collaborating with Frederick Law Olmsted on the construction of Prospect Park in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Central, Morningside and Riverside Parks in Manhattan. They also worked on the South Park in Chicago and the state reservation at Niagara Falls, N.Y. Vaux was the landscape architect for the department of parks in New York City for many years. Collection consists of correspondence, documents, drawings, maps, plans, reports, speech, photograph, newsclippings, and other printed matter. Correspondence includes letters, 1860-1894, by Vaux relating to the design and construction of Central Park; letters, 1865-1895, to Vaux from Olmsted and others concerning Prospect and other parks, and Olmsted's life and work in California; letters to the editor of the New York Tribune about the roles of Vaux and Olmsted in the design of Prospect and Central Parks; and letters, 1921, between C. Bowyer Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. concerning their fathers' letters. Also, documents relating to Vaux's work'; drawings, maps and plans for some of his work; reports on parks; speech, 1908, by Samuel Parsons about Central Park; photographic portrait of Vaux; clippings on the work of Vaux and Olmsted; and other printed materials. less

The Ignaz Anton Pilat Papers contain correspondence, official documents, newspaper clippings, booklets and pamphlets, and photographs and other graphics. The largest series is correspondence, chiefly between Pilat and other individuals involved in the construction of Central Park. There are manuscripts by Pilat describing the progress of work, as well as a letter from Frederick Law Olmsted detailing Pilat's gardening duties. Other original documents date from Pilat's residence in Austria and include a letter to Ferdinand I, in which Pilat requests the position of imperial gardener, certificates of employment and education, and Pilat's passport. Most of the newspaper clippings refer to the building of Central Park, although there are galley proofs of gardening columns Pilat apparently wrote for New York newspapers less

Collection consists almost exclusively of land papers, such as indentures, partition deeds, quit claims, mortgages, tax bills, receipts, estate papers, and a map relating to New York City real estate owned by members of the Staples and Sherman families, particularly John and William Staples and Elizabeth Sherman. Other documents concern legal disputes pertaining to these properties. The properties documented are predominantly located in lower Manhattan and the Lower East Side. less

Aaron Vanderpoel (1799-1870) was a lawyer, later a judge, in Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York, and in New York City. He was administrator of the estate of William Temple Franklin (1760-1823), the grandson of Benjamin Franklin. Collection consists of correspondence, legal papers, and financial documents of Vanderpoel and his father-in-law, attorney James McBride. Vanderpoel's papers pertain to his legal practice, judgeship and personal life. Bulk of his legal papers concerns his administration of the William Temple Franklin estate, 1770-1834. James McBride papers reflect his legal and real estate activities including his work on behalf of clients living in Ireland who had legal or real estate interests in New York City. Also, materials concerning land transactions in western New York and legal affairs of his clients. less

James Francis Ruggles (1834-1895), attorney of New York City, was secretary to New York governor Washington Hunt, 1851-1852. Collection consists of correspondence, accounts, land papers, and unsorted papers of Ruggles. Correspondence, 1849-1895, mainly concerns business and political matters. Accounts, 1864-1885, cover his business affairs; land papers, 1848-1891, include deeds, indentures, titles, and maps for property in New York and Louisiana; and unsorted papers contain printed materials and papers relating to his family. less

William Walker Rockwell (1874-1958) was a Congregational minister, professor of church history and librarian. After being ordained a minister of the Congregational Church in 1905, he joined the Union Theological Seminary in New YOrk City where he taught church history and was the librarian from 1925 until 1942. His wife, Ethel Dean Converse Rockwell (1875-1933), was a national figure in YWCA work. Collection consists of correspondence, investment and organizational papers and lecture materials of William Walker Rockwell; Edith Rockwell's papers; and family genealogical information. Correspondence, 1901-1934, concerns personal and professional matters and includes printed matter and ephemera. Investment papers, 1909-1943, contain correspondence and printed items. Organizational papers, 1907-1938, are Rockwell's files relating to the Manhattan Congregational Church and to various organizations of which he was a member. Lecture preparation materials, 1914-1945, consist of notes, course outlines, bibliographies, correspondence, and ephemera. Ethel Rockwell's papers, 1909-1936, include correspondence about Radcliffe College, personal matters, the YWCA, as well as her estate papers. Rockwell-Dowse family papers, 1883-1929, contain genealogical information for publication purposes. less