Canals

Glass plates 001-004

Dunlap glass plate negatives (sleeved) of various scenes around Niagara County. Plate 003-011 is broken. Topics include: Groups of soldiers travelling, Lockport, Echota, Model City, Niagara Falls Power Company, a masonic groundbreaking ceremony, streetcars, and Ontario Power Company.

Glass plates 015-018

Dunlap glass plate negatives (sleeved) of various scenes around Niagara County. Two glass plate sleeves are labeled "016-011" - one has a secondary label of "016-011a" which does not appear in the collection index. Topics include: Construction of Power House No. 1 extension, transmission lines being laid

Glass plates 019-023

Dunlap glass plate negatives (sleeved) of various scenes around Niagara County. Topics include: Electrical cables, Niagara Falls Power Company's intake canal, Niagara University's campus, Goat Island, Three Sisters Island, and the Maid of the Mist.

Glass plates 099-104

Dunlap glass plate negatives (sleeved) of various scenes around Niagara County. Topics include: Widening of the Hydraulic Canal, winter scenes, construction on the Incline Railway, Niagara Research Laboratories, Capt. Matthew Webb, Carlyle Graham, and Marth Wagenfuhrer.

Glass plates 121-123

Dunlap glass plate negatives (sleeved) of various scenes around Niagara County. Plate 123.014 broken. Topics include: Plates with "special effects" created by Dunlap, widening of the hydraulic power canal, frozen-over American Falls, and Buffalo General Electric.

Information about the New York State canal system, focusing on the Erie Canal. Includes the Erie Canal Harbor Project

Photos of the construction of hydraulic canals

Mounted letter from Walter Bryent concerning plans for completion of the upper end of the Hydraulic Canal

Blank contract agreement and annual report of the chief engineer of the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Company

Letter from John Fisk to C.B. Benedict on moving boats through the Erie Canal