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Civil Engineering Works Photograph Collection
Item
Identifier: SC Photo-0020
Abstract
The collection of photographs illustrate various types of civil engineering works including the Whipple through truss railroad bridge, Pennsylvania through truss bridge, suspension bridges, cantilever bridges, reinforced concrete arch bridges and buttress dams. Among the bridge photographs are included the Brooklyn Bridge, the Firth of Forth Bridge, the Tay Bridge and Niagara Falls “Honeymoon” Bridge collapses, the Pecos River railroad trestle bridge and the “Luten Design” reinforced...
Dates:
1879-1984; Majority of material found within 1879-1984
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Girdler Family Records
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0247
Abstract
An extensive collection of correspondence, information and genealogical searches made by current family members to trace ancestors into the Seventeenth Century when it is believed the first of the Girdlers came to the American colonies. The early ancestors settled in Marblehead, Essex County, Massachusetts and were involved in the mariner trade as sailors, masters and captains of merchant ships. Perhaps the most famous was Lewis Girdler, master of the “Betsy” who was a licensed privateer...
Dates:
1783 to 1995; Majority of material found within 1802 to 1915
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
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- Ambursen, Nils Frederick, 1876-1953 1
- Champion Bridge Company 1
- Dixey, Richard W., 1809-1860 1
- Dixey, Robert Hooper 1
- Edmund, Kimball 1
- Fisher, Nathaniel, 1742-1812 1
- Gardner, David I. 1
- Girdler, Robert Mercer 1
- Girdler, Sarah J. 1
- Girdler, William 1
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- Heard, John 1
- Lipscomb, John 1
- Low Tile Company 1
- Luten Bridge Company 1
- Luten Engineering Company 1
- Luten, Daniel B., 1869-1946 1
- MacGregor, James 1
- MacGregor, Thomas 1
- National Bridge Company 1
- Phoenix Bridge Company 1
- Sale, Madison 1
- Shelton, Thomas J. 1
- Southern Pacific Railroad Company 1
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