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A map of the country traversed by the Erie Canal… (by Thomas Curtis Clarke. Scribners Magazine, Vol. XIX, no. 15, 1896, p. 104)

“New York State, The Improved Canal System” Charles L. Cadle.

“View on the Erie Canal” (1830-32) by John William Hill.

“The Marriage of the Waters” A mural decoration in the DeWitt Clinton High School, New York City, showing a scene connected with the ceremony of opening the Erie Canal in 1825. – Copyright 1905, C.Y. Turner. Accessed at http://www.canals.ny.gov/history/history.html on May 11, 2019.

“View of Little Falls, New York,” William Rickerby Miller, 1852. Watercolor on paper. Albany Institute of History & Art, Purchase, 1946.69. Accessed at https://www.albanyinstitute.org/erie-canal.html on May 11, 2019.

“A depiction of the Erie Canal in Buffalo, New York,” The Archaeological Conservancy. Accessed at https://www.archaeologicalconservancy.org/update-e-in-honor-of-labor-day-a-look-at-clintons-ditch-the-erie-canal/ on May 11, 2019.

By Sanatory Committee, under the sanction of the Medical Counsel, in New York City – New York Historical SocietyWilford, John Noble. “How Epidemics Helped Shape the Modern Metropolis.” The New York Times. April 15, 2008. – And “Plague in Gotham! Cholera in 19th-Century New York.” New York Historical Society. April 04, 2008 – August 31, 2008., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23608577

British navy hospital ships supporting the 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia. Accessed at https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/british-navy.html.

The burning of the Quaratine hospital. No lives were lost. (From the Collection of the Staten Island Museum). Accessed at https://www.nydailynews.com/news/justice-story/infamous-quarantine-hospital-burned-19th-century-article-1.1483012.

A view of the Quarantine hospital in Staten Island, much hated by residents. (From the Collection of the Staten Island Museum). Accessed at https://www.nydailynews.com/news/justice-story/infamous-quarantine-hospital-burned-19th-century-article-1.1483012.

“Classes of Land Use, Based on Data from 1960, compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey 1968.”

“Principle Uses of Water Based on Data from 1960, compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey 1968.”

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