About This Collection
Images of inventory of the Board of Canal Commissioners' Map Books, 1810-1881 prepared by Division of Archives and Manuscripts Associate Archivist Martha L. Simonetti. Information provided is a detailed listing of the canal commission maps in the Records of the Board of Canal Commissioners among the Records of the Land Office (RG-17). The inventory is keyed to the descriptive guide by Hubertis M. Cummings published in 1959 under the title Pennsylvania Board of Canal Commissioners' Records with Allied Records of Canal Companies Chartered by the Commonwealth, Descriptive Index. Information provided is the map number, title, date, dimensions, name of designer or draftsmen, and the page number upon which the map is described in Pennsylvania Board of Canal Commissioners' Records with Allied Records of Canal Companies Chartered by the Commonwealth, Descriptive Index. Images are arranged sequentially by page number on which map is referenced in Pennsylvania Board of Canal Commissioners' Records with Allied Records of Canal Companies Chartered by the Commonwealth, Descriptive Index by Hubertis M. Cummings. This collection is part of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission which was created in 1945