 | - Manuscript Group 311- Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company Records
- Various records on microfilm and in document form
- Dates from the 1820s- 1950s
- Also includes records from the subsidiary companies
- More information on MG 311
- Administration files primarily correspondence with a few blueprints
- Minutes of meetings along with an index
- A wide variety of volumes of sketched maps
- Index of the land register
- Briefs of title, reports, agreements, mortgages/leases
- Financial records
- Employment records
- Large set of tracings and blueprints
- Miscellaneous volumes including the story of the company, information written about the canal, reference items, charter, by laws and agreements
- Atlases taken from a geological survey which have been separated into counties
- Maps that are separated by drafts of lands, land ownership and leases and charts and blueprints
- Manuscript Group 218- Photograph Collection
- Dates range from the late 19th Century to the mid 20th Century
- Printed copies of paintings
- Various parts of PA
- More information on MG 218
- Some undated photographs of PA canals
- Photographs of boats on canals
- Canal lock photographs
- Manuscript Group 174- Historical Society of Berks County Deposit of Records of the Union Canal Company of PA
- Dates from 1792-1885
- Collection has been microfilmed
- More information on MG 174
- Records, correspondence, proposals, recommendations, accounts, legal papers
- General correspondence identified by individual and date of correspondence or recipient
- Light sketches and general maps
- Has lists of presidents, board of directors etc. for different years in the company
- Almost all handwritten pages
- Account folders not microfilmed in numerical order
- Accounts include checks written, expenditures, statements, payroll, tolls, etc.
- Record Group 17- Records of the Land Office
- XXV Records of the Canal Commissioners
- Dates 1810-1912
- Various reports, records, and maps
- Partially microfilmed
- Finding aid includes a magazine cutout with descriptions of different PA canal lines
- Contains files for numerous branches
- More information on RG 17- XXV
- Map book collection of 44 books, with each map portraying surrounding landmarks such as towns, land owners, major roads, and major bodies of water
- Damage claim records including awards, payments, appraisals, cases, index, and summary
- Engineering records include contracts, calculations of sections, estimates, field books, recommendations, and instructions
- Accounts with amounts paid, salaries, warrants, and domestic creditors
- Various reports dating from 1867- 1912
- Minutes of meetings dating to the latter half of the 19th Century
- Reports and resolutions passed
- Allegheny Portage RR- check rolls, work receipts, accounts, contracts, damage claims, and reports
- Beaver Division- check rolls, work receipts, accounts, contracts, damage claims, and reports
- Columbia and Philadelphia RR- Work estimates, check rolls, work receipts, accounts, contracts, damage claims, and reports
- Delaware Division- work estimates, minutes and proceedings, surveys, check rolls, work receipts, accounts, contracts, damage claims, and reports
- Eastern Division- check rolls, work receipts, accounts, contracts, damage claims, reports
- Erie Extension Canal- work receipts, accounts, contracts, damage claims, reports
- French Creek Feeder- check rolls, work receipts, accounts, contracts, damage claims, and reports
- Gettysburg RR- work estimates, work receipts, accounts, contracts, and damage claims
- Juniata Division- work estimates, check rolls, work receipts, accounts, contracts, damage claims, and reports
- North Branch Division- check rolls, work receipts, accounts, contracts, damage claims, and reports
- Susquehanna Division- check rolls, work receipts, accounts, contracts, damage claims, and reports
- West Branch Division- check rolls, work receipts, accounts, contracts, damage claims, and reports
- Western Division- check rolls, work receipts, accounts, contracts, damage claims, and reports
- Record Group 6- Records of the Department of Forests and Waters
- RG 6.7- Report on the Proposed Improvements to the Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal
- Dates to 1950
- Written about MP 24 to MP 60
- Report with some photographs and maps
- More information on RG 6.7
- Examines the necessary areas for improvements
- Addressed reasons for the improvements
- Describes the different lock gates, aqueducts, stop gates, and waste gates
- Recommendations for repairs
- Appendix consists of numerous maps
- RG 6.18- Survey Books of the Delaware Division Canal
- Dates to 1868
- 2 volumes
- More information on RG 6.18
- Colored maps done in 1 mile sections
- Chunks of owned land are identified by the individual or company
- Towns noted
- Includes railroad lines
- Other surrounding bodies of water are also identified
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