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A Guide to Canal Records in the New York State Archives

The NYS Archives maintains this site which describes 360 series of records documenting New York's canals from the earliest Erie Canal surveys to the completion and operation of the Barge Canal.

Center for Columbia River History

Washington State.

Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States

Guildhall Library Manuscripts Collection

London, England.

London Canal Museum

England.

Murphy Library University of Wisconsin La Crosse

Large collection of photographs of inland steamboats.

National Canal Museum

Easton, Pennsylvania.

New Jersey Division of Archives & Records Management

Parliamentary Archives: House of Lords Record Office

The archive service for both Houses of Parliament and facilitates public access to several million records which are preserved in the Victoria Tower repository. The records include plans of canals, roads, railways and other public works deposited in connection with private bills from 1794.

Pennsylvania State Archives

St. Louis Mercantile Library

At the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Established in 1846 by civic leaders and philanthropists, the Mercantile exists today as a vibrant community, cultural asset. It is the oldest library west of the Mississippi and the grandparent of all cultural institutions in St. Louis. The task of the Mercantile Library as a research library is to make its collections, which have come to concentrate on Western Expansion and the history, development, and growth of the St. Louis region and of the American rail and river transportation experiences, available to the widest number of local and national users.

The Greater Manchester County Record Office

England.

The National Waterways Museum at Gloucester

England.

Water Folk Canal Centre

Wales.