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Bethlehem (Pa.) Coal Companies Records
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0069
Abstract
This collection contains by-laws, minutes of meetings, indexes, and reports of several local coal companies, and corporations, with the same officers serving jointly in many of them.
Dates:
1888 - 1956
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Mine Inspection Trip Reports
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0036
Abstract
Three typescript reports of Lehigh University Mining Engineering Department’s mine inspection trips made 1922, 1924, 1926. Two of the reports are travelogue itineraries as well as noting mines and mills observed, the third is a more technical discussion of the mines visited. Reports are by Robert G. Pfahler EM‘23, George A. Howland EM’27, Robert A. Harrier EM’27, John P. Cox EM’27, and Paul W. Sinwell EM’27 all studying for the Engineer of Mining degrees. According to the notes in the...
Dates:
Event: 1922 - 1926
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Robert M. Wheeler Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0140
Abstract
Documents and photographs assembled by Robert M. Wheeler primarily of the portion of his career as Mine Captain of No. 3 mine at the Cornwall Iron Mine, a subsidiary of Bethlehem Steel Corporation. His contributions to the iron ore operation in the Cornwall Iron Mine as well as other mines belonging to the Bethlehem Cornwall Corporation were valued by the Bethlehem executives based on the correspondence content. Mr. Wheeler’s material gives an insight into open pit and underground mining...
Dates:
1956 - 1984
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
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
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
The Lehigh University Summer Inspection Tour, 1922
Collection
Identifier: SC Photo-0015
Abstract
This collection depicts a pioneering field trip made in 1922 by Lehigh’s Mining Engineering department. It consists of 127 black and white photographs, one map, two letters, and three decorative album covers. Thirty of the photographs are duplicated indicating that the official photographer of the field trip made at least two sets of photographs. The acquisition of the photographs are from two separate sources; one set in 1964 and the larger set in 2011. The Mining Department field trip...
Dates:
July 7, 1922 to September 1, 1964
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections