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Box 0285.02

 Container

Contains 8 Results:

Building program, working copy.

 File — Box: 0285.02, Folder: 01
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains press releases, correspondence, invitations, programs, brochures, newspaper clippings, photographs and architectural drawings.

Dates: 1963 - 1965

Building program documents and correspondence.

 File — Box: 0285.02, Folder: 02
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains press releases, correspondence, invitations, programs, brochures, newspaper clippings, photographs and architectural drawings.

Dates: 1963 - 1965

Building correspondence, 1947 - 1960

 File — Box: 0285.02, Folder: 03
Scope and Contents

Color hand-drawn map of proposed location. Note that smoking and typing be permitted in private spaces. Itineraries for visiting other libraries. Correspondence on the possibility of remodeling Linderman Library in addition to building Mart. List of foundation gifts for Mart Library. List of amounts spent on books, periodicals, bindings, etc. from 1947-1960.

Dates: 1947 - 1960

Building Correspondence II, 1965

 File — Box: 0285.02, Folder: 04
Scope and Contents Photographs of the model building from Steinmann & Cain. Price comparisons to several other schools including specific pricing, total price, square footage, artworks and book capacity. Photos of an early model of the building. Floor plan of circulation area and stacks. Lehigh University Planning and Development Committee: Status of Projects packet including updates on all current (1965) projects. Includes completion and naming of Centennial (now Upper Centennial) housing project, a Hall...
Dates: 1965

Building Correspondence III, 1965-10

 File — Box: 0285.02, Folder: 05
Scope and Contents

Clipping of an article on the Urban Renewal Projects, of which the new library’s construction is a part. An article on Lehigh’s construction. Release: U.S. office of education gives Lehigh 250,000 dollars toward the new library. An update on all construction projects as of October 1965

Dates: 1965-10

Building Correspondence IV

 File — Box: 0285.02, Folder: 06
Scope and Contents Card punch room B03 plans. Letter to Jerome Barney from James Mack about whether to allow smoking in the library. Unidentified architect drawing. List of every color to be used in the new library. Letter to the editor of Life Magazine about how interesting it is that three large libraries--one for Bethlehem, one for Moravian and one for Lehigh--are being built at roughly the same time all in Bethlehem. A letter from W.L. Staples stating that the official name of the library is to be The Mart...
Dates: 1963 - 1965

Building correspondence V, 1969-08

 File — Box: 0285.02, Folder: 07
Scope and Contents Document with handwritten square footage and costs. Document with costs to date (Aug. 1969). Unidentified floor plan. Letter from James Mack to Kenneth Lowry thanking him for coming to the dedication and saying: “don’t go to cuba.” Letter from James Mack to Jerome Barney saying that allowing smoking in the all night study room may be a bad idea, as he found damage there. Hours and costs to move books from Linderman to Mart Library. Opening and dedication dates. floor plan sketch, machine...
Dates: 1969-08

Program for the proposed Science and Engineering Research Library.

 File — Box: 0285.02, Folder: 08
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains press releases, correspondence, invitations, programs, brochures, newspaper clippings, photographs and architectural drawings.

Dates: 1963 - 1965