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Additional authors

1. Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820

Description

1. .42 linear foot (1 box, 1 volume, 1 other item)

Summary

1. 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.

Subject

1. Gilpin family.
2. Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company.
3. Delaware and Schuylkill Canal Company.
4. Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation.
5. Union Canal Company of Pennsylvania.
6. Canals -- Design and construction.
7. Canals -- Delaware.
8. Canals -- Maryland.
9. Canals -- New York (State)
10. Canals -- Pennsylvania.
11. Surveying -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
12. Canals.
13. Surveying.
14. Big Elk Creek (Pa. and Md.)
15. Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (Del. and Md.) -- History.
16. Delaware.
17. Maryland.
18. New York (State)
19. Pennsylvania.
20. Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
21. United States -- Big Elk Creek.
22. United States -- Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.

Genre/Form

1. History.
2. conveyances.
3. field notes.
4. land surveys.
5. technical drawings.

Call number

1. MssCol 403

Language

1. English

Access (note)

1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
2. Digital images must be used in lieu of originals.

Additional formats (note)

1. Available as digital images.

Funding (note)

1. Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.

Source (note)

1. Purchased from Unger, 1919

Author

1. Brooke, Robert, 1770-1821.

Occupation

1. Civil engineers.
2. Surveyors.

Added author

1. Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820.