These selections are but a few of my favorite maps and illustrations and sources for more.  There are dozens of other drawings, paintings, and prints as well as many hundreds of photographs, but space does not permit me to show but the tip of the iceberg.  If you know of any others that would be suitable for posting here, please let me know!

Extracted Lists (no maps!) of Maps, Surveys, and Field Books from the Surveyor General's Collection in the New York State Archives

• ONEIDA RESERVATION Maps, Surveys, and Field Books
• CAZENOVIA TRACT Maps, Surveys, and Field Books (Lincklaen Purchase, Twenty Towns, New Petersburg)

• 1819 Sketch of Jabish N.M. Hurd's Store with a history, biography, and portrait of Hurd
• 1827 View of Cazenovia Lake by Samuel F.B. Morse
• 1841 South Western View of Cazenovia from Barber & Howe
• 1850 Cazenovia Fugitive Slave Convention with Gerritt Smith, Frederick Douglass, and others
• c1875 Crawford Improved Mower and Reaper, made in Cazenovia in the 1870s, with a history of the Paper Mill Property
• 1938 Aerial Photo of the Village of Cazenovia (c/o Cazenovia Preservation Foundation) (one of dozens that cover the town)

• 1801 Amos Lay and Arthur J. Stansbury's Map of the Northern Part of New York State
• 1802 Simeon DeWitt's Map of New York State
• 1812 Amos Lay's Map of the Northern Part of the State of New York
• 1818 John H. Eddy's Map of the State of New York  ... This is a very interesting map as the settlement at Nelson Flatts is labeled Argos.  This map has been misinterpreted as showing that the settlement of "Argos" was there before Nelson Flatts (why is Perryville called "Harmony"? is that a "lost settlement," too?)  Argos is the same as the present hamlet of Nelson Flatts on NY 20 in the bottom of the valley.
• 1820 Amos Lay's Map of the State of New York (2nd edition of Lay's 1817 map)
• 1827 William Williams' Tourist Map of the State of New York
• 1829/1839 David H. Burr map of Madison County, republished 1839 by Stone & Clarke
• 1836 Thomas F. Gordon's map of Madison and Chenango Counties (combined) from his Gazeteer of New York State
• 1852 Henry Hart Map of the Village of Cazenovia (central part)
• 1875 Beers Atlas of Madison County, Outline Plan of Madison County
• Modern Highway Map to make comparisons with the historic maps