Content: Includes "A profile of the extent of the levels and of the places and lifts of the locks between Lake Erie and the Hudson" and "A profile of the southern route west of the Genesee River."
Content: National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Statement Of Responsibility: contracted by direction of the Canal Commissioners from the maps of the engineers 1821.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 map on 2 sheets ; 38 x 170 cm., sheets 41 x 87 cm. and 41 x 86 cm.

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 46795228
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b15025208
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 4e2027a0-c5aa-012f-1e2a-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Cartographic

Date Issued

1821

Cite this item

MLA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "A new map and profile of the proposed canal from Lake Erie to Hudson River in the State of New York" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1821. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4e2027a0-c5aa-012f-1e2a-58d385a7bc34

APA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1821). A new map and profile of the proposed canal from Lake Erie to Hudson River in the State of New York Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4e2027a0-c5aa-012f-1e2a-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "A new map and profile of the proposed canal from Lake Erie to Hudson River in the State of New York" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 5, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4e2027a0-c5aa-012f-1e2a-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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