Richard Welty on Nostr: 2/ a search for his name in the online catalog turned up this box. the state had him ...

2/ a search for his name in the online catalog turned up this box. the state had him collecting information on the turnpike era in New York, which started in the mid 1700s and ran to about 1901, which appears to me to be the point at which the most successful turnpikes finally wound up operation (the Rensselaer and Columbia Turnpike, roughly corresponding to modern US 20 in Rensselaer and Columbia Counties, closed the toll houses in 1901. they were one of the very last.)