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Albert Ladd Colby Report on the Boston Molasses Tank
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0098
Scope and Contents
Total 10 volumes collection contains typescript reports of the test results, blue prints of the molasses tank and photographs of steel pieces from the tank that are tested. First 4 volumes of the collection, lacking the volumes fifth and sixth*, contain Albert Ladd Colby’s final general report to the defense team, Larkin & Perry Attorneys at Law. Additional 5 volumes are A. L. Colby’s private and confidential reports to Larkin & Perry and a summary of his testimony in the court....
Dates:
1919-1922
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Bethlehem Housing Authority records
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0334
Abstract
In an effort to boost local economy and employment in the building trades, the Bethlehem Housing Authority directors embarked on large scale public housing projects. Monies provided by the federal government to the states and ultimately to the local communities were applied to several housing projects: Temporary War Housing Project 1943 to accommodate the large influx of workers for Bethlehem Steel's wartime effort which became known as the Pembroke Housing; the Robert Pfeifle Houses,...
Dates:
1943-1962
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Blair Birdsall Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0175
Abstract
This collection contains the technical and professional documents of consulting engineer Blair Birdsall. Most of the collection are documents pertaining to the multitude of bridges he worked on, including the Golden Gate, Chesapeake Bay, and Brooklyn Bridges, as a consulting engineer or as a design engineer. The collection spans from 1900 to 2002 covering his entire career and also early Steinman Boynton Gronquist & Birdsall and John A. Roebling Sons Engineering companies.
Dates:
Inclusive Dates
Found in:
Lehigh University Grant Projects
Construction of Coxe Laboratory, 1908-1919
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0034
Abstract
General correspondence, plans, blueprints, invoices and correspondence regarding insurance for Coxe Mining Laboratory.
Dates:
1908-1919
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Harvey Bassler Papers, 1900-1968
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0019
Abstract
Correspondence, handwritten and also edited transcription of diaries and records of the donation of his personal library of Harvey Bassler, who was a geologist for Standard Oil Company in Peru, from 1920-1932. Included are the diaries and other notes he took on his field trips in Peru, an edited copy of the diaries and the duplicated compilation of the diaries written by Bradford Willard in 1965-1966, as well as much personal correspondence during the period. Also included is a list of the...
Dates:
1900-1968; Majority of material found within 1926-1939
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Henry Sylvester Jacoby Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0063
Abstract
Henry S. Jacoby Papers contains diplomas and certificates he received, drawings and illustrations for some of his books, scrapbooks about Lehigh (1872-1877), typescripts of some of his publications, and correspondence to and from the American Railway Engineering Association. The correspondence is of special to any engineer interested in the work involved in formulating a textbook or the forensics of old bridges.
Dates:
1872 - 1944
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Willis Appleford Slater Papers, 1910-1937
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0100
Dates:
Inclusive Dates
Found in:
Lehigh University Grant Projects
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