Civil Engineering Surveying Notes, 1880-1898
Scope and Contents
This is a bound paperboard book with buckram spine measuring 30 x 15 cm, 102 pages. On the cover is a label with the handwritten title Engineering Notes. Surveying Notes Students L. U. 1886. The pages of the book are numbered in pencil in the upper outer corner of each page. The material includes Bench Marks on campus noted by large stones or trees or buildings and readings made from these marks on campus into South Bethlehem and across the Lehigh River to Bethlehem on the north side. Also noted are the Coast and Geodetic Survey Bench Marks in relationship to the local region (Allentown and Bethlehem, PA). The contents of the calculations represent an historical account of the campus and surrounding area in the 1880s.
Dates
- 1880-1898
Creator
Biographical / Historical
The surveying courses were conducted by Professor Charles L. Doolittle (1843-1919), a professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Lehigh from 1875 until 1895. During his time at Lehigh, the university and Sayre Observatory gained an international reputation due to his astronomical research. In 1912, Lehigh honored him with an Honorary LLD. Howard McClintic (’88) and Charles Marshall (’88) also contributed to this book during their time here, and went on to work on constructions such as the Golden Gate Bridge, the locks of the Panama Canal, and the Empire State Building.
Extent
.25 Linear Feet (1 box, .25 linear feet)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
A historical description of Lehigh University’s campus and its relationship to Bethlehem through surveying notes made by the civil engineering students from Sophomore Classes in the 1880s as recorded in this field notebook. The Surveying classes were under the instruction of Professor Charles L. Doolittle, father of poetess Hilda Doolittle. Some of the student notations were made by H. H. McClintic and C. D. Marshall, who would later form the company that built the Panama Canal gates.
- Auchmuty, Harrison Link
- Bates, Edmund A
- Beatty, William Donaldson
- Bench marks—Pennsylvania—Allentown.
- Bench marks—Pennsylvania—Lehigh River.
- Bench marks—Pennsylvania—South Bethlehem.
- Berg, Walter G.
- Bermudes, Francisco Alberto
- Beverson, William Lowrey
- Bonnot, Alexander
- Bonzano, Hubert Alexander
- Bowman, William James Jarrand
- Bradford, William
- Breinig, Richard Singmaster
- Brown, John Henry
- Bruegel, Adolph Theodore
- Bryan, Kennerly
- Butler, Charles Noble
- Byers, Morton Lewis
- Calypso Island – Lehigh River
- Christian Bleich House
- Civil engineers
- Coast and Geodetic Survey
- Connard, George Philip
- Cornelius, Justice Cox
- Cunningham, Benjamin Amos
- Dalrymple, Francis Wharton
- Daniels, Reuben
- Davis, George Herschel
- Davis, William Schaff
- DeWitt, Philip Hoffecker
- Domenech, Manuel Victor
- Douglas, Henry Bowman
- East Penn Junction
- East Penn Railroad
- Edson, William Noble
- Engelbert, John Roberts
- Field notes
- Fink, Frederick William
- Focht, Charles Wesley
- Foote, William Banks
- Frescoln, Samuel Wilson
- Freyhold, Felix
- Gates, William
- Goodnow, William Theodore
- Goodwin, H. Stanley
- Grossart, Lewis John Henry
- Harper, Harry Tallman
- Harwi, Solomon Jacob
- Hazleton, Simeon Cole
- Heikes, Irving Andrew
- Hillegass, Harry Hurd
- Hittell, John Benjamin
- Hofford, Edwin Franklin
- Hood, George Gowen
- Hopkins, Charles Comstock
- Hydraulics Laboratory
- Jardine, John Andrew
- Jencks, Sterry Henry
- John Danner House
- Junken, Charles Alexander
- Kerr, David Garrett
- Kittrell, James Wesson
- Langston, Frederick Bowman Jr.
- Langston, William
- Lehigh River (Pa.)
- Lehigh University
- Lehigh University—Surveys.
- Lohse, Charles William
- Lydon, William Anthony
- Mack, James Struthers
- Marshall, Charles Donnell
- McClintic, Howard Hale
- Merkle, Joseph Franklin
- Merriman, Mansfield, 1848-1925
- Miller, Charles Henry
- Miller, George Philips
- Millholland, Paul Douglass
- Morrow, James Alexander
- Mott, Daniel Livermore
- Myers, Harry Krider
- North Penn Railroad
- Notebooks
- Packer Hall Tower
- Palmer, Harry
- Parker, Charles Jeremiah
- Peet, Henry Drinker
- Petersen, Fayette Brown
- Phillips, Robert Henry
- Pile, Francis William-Birchall
- Pollach, Charles Pope
- Pratt, Mason Delano
- Price, John Bertsch
- Purnell, Francis Henry
- Raynor, Clarence Elmer
- Reeves, Alfred Scull
- Reisler, Evan Turner
- Rhoads, Byron Elmer
- Richards, William Pemberton
- Rickett, Osmond
- Sand Island – Lehigh River
- Sayre Observatory
- Shane, George Brinkerhoff
- Shipman, Eugene Hicks
- Siebert, John Selmar
- Smith, Elliot Otis
- Snyder, Elmer Ellis
- Spengler, John Henry
- Stackhouse, Edwin Stanton
- Stevens Family
- Stout, Robert D
- Students
- Surls, Joseph Kiddoo
- Toulmin, Priestley
- University Azimuth stones
- University Park
- University Reservoir
- Walker, Richard Washington
- Watson, James Angus
- Wells, James Hollis (Class of 1885)
- Wetzel, Harvey Musser
- Wilson, Wyle Thompson
- Wiseman, Edward Benjamin
- Witmer, Nissley Joseph
- Zollinger, Luther Reese
Creator
- Doolittle, C. L. (Charles Leander), 1843-1919 (Person)
- Lehigh University. Department of Civil Engineering (Organization)
Source
- Gotwald, Robert Caldwell (Person)
- Meily, Harry Smuller (Person)
- Lehigh University—History. (Organization)
- Title
- Civil Engineering Surveying Notes, 1880-1898
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Special Collections Staff
- Date
- 2011-10
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Lehigh University Special Collections Repository
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