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Packer, Asa, 1805-1879

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Asa and Sarah Packer Golden Wedding Anniversary Album, January 23, 1878

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0261
Abstract

This is one of the few artifacts that exist at Lehigh of Asa Packer, Lehigh University’s founder. The album is a fabulous record of who was who during the Packer Family’s lifetime. The album reflects the importance and wealth that Asa and Sarah Packer had acquired during their life being with virtually only their own fortitude, hard work, and entrepreneurial endeavor.

Dates: 1878

Speeches of Henry Sturgis Drinker President of Lehigh University

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0020
Abstract

Typescripts of speeches, many with additional penciled-in notes, given by Dr. Drinker as president of Lehigh University, as president of the American Forestry Association, and as a supporter of war preparedness and the Student Army Training Corps movement.

Dates: 1905 - 1929

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Albums 1
American Conservation Congress 1
American Forestry Association 1
Army R. O. T. C. 1
Atlas Cement Company 1
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Bethlehem Preparatory School 1
Books 1
Brooklyn Lehigh Club 1
Bucknell University 1
Buffalo Lehigh University Club 1
Chicago Lehigh Club 1
Conservation of natural resources--United States. 1
Correspondence 1
Coxe Laboratory 1
Drexel Institute 1
Drown Memorial Hall. 1
E. P. Wilbur Trust Company 1
Education, Higher 1
Extension School 1
Forestry 1
Fritz Engineering Laboratory. 1
Handwritten Notes 1
Industrialists 1
Influenza--Pennsylvania--Bethlehem. 1
Ingersoll Rand Company 1
Keneseth Israel Allentown 1
Lamberton Hall 1
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company 1
Lehigh University -- Alumni and alumnae 1
Lehigh University. Presidents. 1
Lehigh Valley Coal Company 1
Letters (correspondence) 1
Louisville, Ky. Boys’ High School 1
Manatawny Bessemer Iron Ore Company 1
Maryland Conservation Association 1
Mauch Chunk (Pa.) 1
McClintic-Marshall 1
Military Training Camps Association 1
Mining and Mechanical Institute of the Anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania 1
Mining engineering 1
Moravian Seminary 1
Musconetong Tunnel 1
National Reserve Corps 1
Nineteenth century industrialists 1
Nineteenth century social customs 1
Northeastern Pennsylvania Lehigh Club 1
Oberlin College 1
Packer Hall 1
Pennsylvania Forestry Association 1
Philadelphia Lehigh Club 1
Phoenixville, PA. Woman’s Club 1
Photographs 1
Railroad president 1
Sayre Observatory 1
Southern Lehigh Club 1
Speech Typescripts 1
Students’ Army Training Corps 1
Tau Beta Pi 1
Taylor Gymnasium. 1
Taylor Hall. 1
Taylor Stadium. 1
Thaddeus Stevens Boys’ High School 1
Tome School 1
Universities and colleges 1
University of Illinois 1
University presidents 1
Wedding anniversaries 1
Yeates School 1
Young Men's Christian Association (Lehigh University) 1
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