Black and white photograph of New York City buildings, taken by Robert Merrill from Metropolitan Tower in Manhattan.

Black and white photograph of two women, May and Flora, sitting on a short stone wall with trees in the background at Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.

Black and white photograph of the Croton Aqueduct Bridge in New York City. Water damage is visible in the image, which was scanned from the negative.

Black and white photograph of the west end of the Manhattan Bridge across the East River, New York City.

Black and white photograph of New York City buildings behind ferries on a river.

Black and white photograph of city buildings as seen from Battery Park, New York City.

Black and white photograph of Glenorthwestood Lake. Taken by Robert Merrill, facing northeast.

Black and white photograph of the Medina Falls and Aqueduct in Medina, New York.

Black and white photograph of Glenorthwestood Lake from a higher vantage point facing north.

Black and white photograph of the Maybees Waste Weir, located on the Erie Canal section of the New York State Barge Canal. Taken by Robert Merrill from the canal bank.

Black and white photograph of the Boxwood Cemetery in Medina, New York, An unidentified woman, possibly Merrill's wife Lena, is visible in the midground of the image.

Request from Horatio T. Libby, an engine machinist, that Joseph E. Bradford investigate a patent held by Henry Bailey.