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A.Roy Eckardt Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0149
Abstract

A. Roy Eckardt Papers contain drafts of publications, published books and articles, correspondence, scrapbooks, audio recordings about Judaism, Christianity, Jewish-Christian relations, Holocaust. There are also family and personal material, Lehigh University administrative documents.

Dates: 1939 - 1998; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1994

Harvey Denison Kitchel Micrographical Notes

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0270
Abstract

Fascinating notations of an amateur scientist whose profession and training was as a man of the cloth who acquired a fine microscope and was very diligent in making observations of algae, mosses and blood of animals and humans. Reverend Kitchel made beautiful colored illustrations of his observations and consulted with others regarding his observations. He classed his observations as field notes. He and his family had a number of connections to Lehigh University.

Dates: 1880 - 1886

Newspaper Caricatures about the Henry Ward Beecher Trial

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0202
Abstract A selective collection of newspaper caricatures, cartoons, sketches and portraits of the Beecher family especially related to the scandalous adultery trial in 1875 involving the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher and Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton. Beecher was the younger brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” The entire Beecher family was involved in the abolition cause. The collection of illustrations bound in this volume are an interesting evidence of the public opinion of...
Dates: 1853 - 1893