Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Asa Packer & Lehigh University Newspaper Clippings

 Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0104

Abstract

This collection contains late 19th and early 20th century newspaper clippings detailing the life and accomplishments of Asa Packer.

Dates: 1843-1912

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Edward Gallagher: Documents on Henry S. Drinker’s Presidency at Lehigh University

 Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0114

Abstract

Articles, correspondence and biographical information on Henry S. Drinker and his presidency at Lehigh University. Collection is assembled by Prof. Edward J. Gallagher, Department of English at Lehigh University while he was teaching a course that required using primary sources at Special Collections. Prof. Gallagher based his research on the original letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Cecilia Beaux.

Dates: 1897 - 2002

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Lehigh Valley Railroad Documents

 Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0159

Abstract

Reflected in this collection is the bureaucracy of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company from a train conductor’s view. The collection contains bulletins, supplements to bulletins, correspondence about operation of trains, train fares, schedules of train stations, time tables, conductor’s documentation of passengers’ destinations, tickets issued and material especially about the Black Diamond Express – the LVRR’s most famous train.

Dates: 1870-1981; Majority of material found within 1909-1915

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Lehigh Valley Railroad Ledger 1863-1874

 Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0198

Abstract

Single volume ledger of Lehigh Valley Rail Road Company containing information on the locomotive and railroad car maintenance, repair and management records from 1863-1874.

Dates: 1863-1874

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Robert Heysham Sayre diary

 Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0336

Abstract

A diary/appointment book of Robert H. Sayre, chief engineer of Lehigh Valley Railroad and a trustee of Lehigh University. The diary contains entries about the activities of a person responsible for the daily running of a railroad.

Dates: 1860

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

The Morris Canal and Banking Company Business Papers 1843-1864

 Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0156

Abstract The Morris Canal started in 1825 was built from Phillipsburg, New Jersey on the Delaware River eastward across northern New Jersey to connect in 1831with the Passaic River tidewaters as a public highway. By 1836 it was extended to Jersey City on the Hudson River. Its main commerce was carrying coal from Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley to the growing iron industry in New Jersey and iron ore back to Pennsylvania but also carried other freight. The canal was the only canal in America that utilized...

Dates: 1843-1864

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

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Mauch Chunk (Pa.) 3

Clippings (information artifacts) 2

Correspondence 2

Philadelphia (Pa.) 2

Railroads – Pennsylvania – History 2

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Albums 1

Articles 1

Banks and banking 1

Bethlehem (Pa.) 1

Buffalo (N.Y.) 1

Canals -- New Jersey 1

Civil engineers 1

Diaries 1

Fritz, John, 1822-1913 1

Industrialists 1

Inland navigation 1

Ledgers (account books) 1

Lehigh University -- History 1

Lehigh University presidents. 1

Locomotives 1

Locomotives – Maintenance and repair 1

Locomotives – Pennsylvania 1

Morris Canal (N.J.) 1

New York (N.Y.) 1

Niagara Falls (N.Y.) 1

Notebooks 1

Obituaries 1

Packerton (Pa.) 1

Photographs 1

Railroad Conductors 1

Railroads - Employees 1

Railroads – Management 1

Railroads – Middle Atlantic States – History 1

Railroads – United States – History 1

Raven Rim (Pa.) 1

Sayre (Pa.) 1

South Bethlehem (Bethlehem, Pa.) 1

Tunnels 1

Universities and colleges 1

Waterways 1

Wilkes Barre (Pa.) 1

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