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Robert Brooke was an American surveyor and civil engineer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Robert Brooke papers relating to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, 1796-1845 (bulk 1804-1805), comprise five volumes used by Brooke chiefly during his work on the feeder canal to the proposed main line in 1804 and 1805; papers relating to a survey of private lands near the feeder canal, 1805; and a portfolio of watercolor drawings of aqueducts by the Canal’s engineer Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1804. The volumes also include records of Brooke’s work for Philadelphia canal companies, 1798-1799 and 1817, and surveys made in Philadelphia, 1806, as well as legal forms for land transactions, 1796-1816. A few manuscript documents, 1796-1845, and a printed broadside addressed to Stockholders of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, 1824, are also present. less