Canvass White papers, 1814-1835.
Collection Number: 609
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Canvass White papers, 1814-1835.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
609
Abstract:
Papers documenting canal engineer and cement manufacturer Canvass White's career.
Creator:
White, Canvass, 1790-1834.
Quanitities:
.9 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Canal engineer and cement manufacturer of Whitestown, Oneida County, N.Y.
Canvass White served in the War of 1812, made surveys on the Erie Canal, visited
England to study canals, introduced hydraulic cement into the United States, manufactured
cement, was president of the Cohoes Company, chief engineer of the Delaware Breakwater,
the Delaware and Rariton Canal, the Enfield Falls Canal, the Louisville & Portland
Canal, the Union Canal, and consulting engineer for the Chambly Canal, the Chesapeake
& Ohio Canal, the New York Waterworks, the Portsmouth & Lancaster Railroad, for improvements
on the Union Canal, and for other engineering projects.
Correspondence, legal and business papers and other papers relating to White's service
in the War of 1812, his engineering activities, and his cement manufacturing business
with his brother Hugh at Chittenango, N.Y. Includes material relating to the Camden
and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company, Chambly Canal, Champlain Canal, Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal, Cohoes company, Delaware and Rariton Canal, Delaware Breakwater, Enfield
Falls Canal, Erie Canal, Croton Aqueduct, Louisville and Portland Canal, Mohawk River,
Pennsylvania Canal, Union Canal, and Utica and Schenectady Railroad. Correspondents
include Major Bender, Edwin A. Douglass, General Jessup, William Lehman, George Olmsted,
William Read, Peter Remsen, Alfred Smith, and Joseph Trumball.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Canvass White Papers, #609. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University
Library.
Names:
Douglass, Edwin A.
Lehman, William.
Olmsted, George.
Read, William.
Remsen, Peter.
Smith, Alfred.
Trumball, Joseph.
Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company
Cohoes Company
Utica and Schenectady Railroad
Places:
Whitestown (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
Union Canal.
Pennsylvania Canal.
Mohawk River.
Louisville and Portland Canal.
Croton Aqueduct (N.Y.)
Erie Canal.
Enfield Falls Canal.
Delaware Breakwater.
Delaware and Raritan Canal.
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
Champlain Canal (N.Y.)
Chambly Canal.
United States -- History -- War of 1812.
Subjects:
Canals.
Railroads -- New York (State)
Cement -- Industries -- New York (State) -- Chittenango
Engineering -- New York (State)
CONTAINER LIST
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Description
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Scope and Contents
All the material in the collection may not be covered by this guide.
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Series I. Correspondence
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Scope and Contents
Contents of folders include letters, inventories, contracts, financial records, reports,
map, ticket, steel engraving, advertising, acts, pamphlet, specifications
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
1814
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
1815
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
1817-1820
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 | 1820-March 1824 | |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 | April-December 1824 | |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 | 1825 | |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 | 1826 | |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 | January-April 1827 | |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 | May-August 1827 | |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 | September-December 1827-1828 | |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 | January-April 1828 | |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 | May-December 1828, undated | |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 | 1829 | |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 | January-March 1830 | |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 | May-July 1830 | |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 | August 1830 | |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 | September-November 1830 | |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 | December 1830, undated | |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 | 1830-1832 | |
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Scope and Contents
Added January 4, 1950 from Hugh White Papers
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| Box 2 | Folder 1 | January-February 1831 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 | March-April 1831 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 | May-August 1831 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 | September-December 1831 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 | January 1832 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 | February-April 1832 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 | May-June 1832 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 | July 1832 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 | August 1832 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 10 | September 1832 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 11 | October 1832 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 12 | November 1832 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 13 | December 1832 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 14 | January 1833 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 15 | February 1833 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 16 | March 1833 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 17 | April 1833 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 18 | May 1833 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 19 | June 1833 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 20 | July 1833 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 21 | August-September 1833 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 22 | October 1833 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 23 | November-December 1833 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 24 | 1833 | |
| Box 3 |
New York History journal, Article "New York's Early Engineers"
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July 1945 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 | January-April 1834 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 | May-August 1834 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 | September-December 1834 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 | 1835 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 | 1836 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 6-7 | Undated | |
| Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Cement
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Undated |
| Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Chambly Canal
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Undated |
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Scope and Contents
Estimates, letter
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| Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Croton Aqueduct
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Undated |
| Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Delaware and Raritan Canal Co.
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Undated |
| Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Enfield Fall Canal
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Undated |
| Box 4 | Folder 1-4 |
Correspondence (List 1)
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1827-1836, Undated |
| Box 4 | Folder 5-8 |
Correspondence: Heigh and Canvass White letters (not listed)
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1824-1847 |
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Series II. Drawings
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| Box 3 | Folder 13-14 |
Plans for bridges, locks, dams etc.
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Undated |