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Civil Engineering Surveying Notes, 1880-1898

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0121
Abstract

A historical description of Lehigh University’s campus and its relationship to Bethlehem through surveying notes made by the civil engineering students from Sophomore Classes in the 1880s as recorded in this field notebook. The Surveying classes were under the instruction of Professor Charles L. Doolittle, father of poetess Hilda Doolittle. Some of the student notations were made by H. H. McClintic and C. D. Marshall, who would later form the company that built the Panama Canal gates.

Dates: 1880-1898

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

Civil War Letters and Memorabilia Collected by John Henry Stuckey

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0371
Abstract

Collection of United States Civil War letters primarily between the families of Joseph D. Richardson (Beverly, NJ), Lloyd Girton and Francis Rupert (Bloomsburg, PA) including responding letters and one additional letter from a Confederate soldier William T. Bickham (Franklintown, LA). Also included are patriotic iconography envelopes - some with or without stamps and related references used by the Civil War enthusiast who assembled the letters and related reference material.

Dates: 1861 - 1973; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1864

Classical League of the Lehigh Valley

 File
Identifier: SC MS 0326
Abstract This collection contains documents and the meeting minute book of the “Classical league of the Lehigh Valley”, established in May 1922, by the teachers, instructor and professors of Greek and Latin of Allentown, Easton and Bethlehem, including colleges and high schools. Records seemed to be compiled by Mary L. Hess, secretary and treasurer. The documents are included is the list of members, expenses and some printed invitations, programs, etc. about regional meetings and “Bimillennial...
Dates: 1922-1957; Majority of material found within

Coal Miner’s Archive: John Nuttall and George W. McGaffey

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0392
Abstract

A fascinating collection of material about the coal industry in western Pennsylvania and West Virginia and the Nuttall family’s expansion of their bituminous coal empire in the mid Nineteenth Century. The Nuttall Family history is prominent today in connection with the New River Gorge National Park in West Virginia.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1817 - 1998

Collection of Wheel Charts, Wheel Calculators and other Circular Ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0378
Abstract

Small collection of two-dimensional interactivity of complex information packaged in an informational design requiring hand - eye coordination of using a wheel chart. Perhaps the best example is the lumber scale to determine the necessary lumber required to build a specifically determined structure or the necessary cement required to make a cubic yard of concrete.

Dates: 1920 - 2005

Congressman Francis E. Walter Guest Book

 Item
Identifier: SC MS 0349
Abstract

Guest book kept in the Congressman Francis E. Walter's office at the Capitol Hill includes autographs of wide range of guests and visitors cultural and political figures such as President Kennedy, Pearl S. Buck, Olivia DeHaviland, James Michener, Alexandra Tolstoy. Handmade book is gold colored silk Chinese accordion styled pages of thick board with ivory peg fasteners for front cover with three Chinese characters on paper label.

Dates: 1955-1959

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

Construction of Packard Laboratory

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0033
Scope and Contents

Material includes vouchers, bank statements, a check book, and work sheets for bonds, for the building of the Packard Laboratory in 1929 1932.

Dates: 1929-1932

Construction Photographs of Bridge Over 9th Street in Chester, Pennsylvania

 Collection
Identifier: SC Photo-0002
Abstract

28 black & white photographs documenting the destruction of the old one and construction of the new bridge over 9th Street in Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1925 to 1926.

Dates: 1925-1926

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Merriman, Mansfield, 1848-1925 9
Coppée, Henry, 1821-1895 7
Grace, Eugene G. (Eugene Gifford), 1876-1960 7
Sayre, Robert H. (Robert Heysham), 1824-1907 7
Schwab, Charles M., 1862-1939 7
Unknown 7
Fritz, John, 1822-1913 6
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company 6
Mack, James D. (James Decker), 1916- 6
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Coxe, Eckley B. (Eckley Brinton), 1839-1895 5
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company 5
Lehigh University. Library 5
Bach Choir of Bethlehem (Bethlehem, Pa.) 4
Beedle, Lynn S. 4
Doolittle, C. L. (Charles Leander), 1843-1919 4
Elkus, Jonathan 4
Johnston, Archibald, 1865-1948 4
Lamberton, Robert Alexander, 1824-1893 4
Lehigh University. Finance Administration. Facilities & Services 4
Lehigh University. Presidents 4
Lehigh University. Students 4
Packer Family 4
Pennsylvania Railroad Company 4
Wilbur, Warren A. 4
Balabkins, Nicholas, 1926-2023 3
Chandler, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1906 3
Cummings, Mary Hannah Packer, 1839-1912 3
Drown, Thomas M., (Thomas Messinger), 1842-1904 3
Eney, William J. 3
Eric Doolittle (1870-1920) Lehigh Class 1891 (CE) 3
General Electric Company 3
Gipson , Lawrence Henry, 1880-1971 3
Honeyman, Robert B. 3
Lehigh University – History 3
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Lehigh University. Curricula 3
Lehigh University. Department of Chemistry 3
Lehigh University. Department of Civil Engineering 3
Lehigh University. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering 3
Lehigh Valley Rail Road Company 3
Neville, Harvey A. (Harvey Alexander), 1898-1983 3
New York times 3
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company 3
Richards, Charles R. (Charles Russ Richards) 3
Stevens, William Bacon, 1815-1887 3
Stout, Robert D 3
Taylor, Robert S. 3
Thomas Iron Company 3
Trembley, Francis J., (1904-1978) 3
United States. Department of the Army 3
Whitaker, Martin Dewey, 1902-1960 3
Wilbur, E. P. (Elisha Packer), 1833-1910 3
Wolle Family 3
ArtsQuest 2
Baldwin Locomotive Works 2
Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886 2
Berman Family 2
Blake, Robert William, 1864-1921 2
Bradford, William 2
Brodhead Family 2
Cady, Susan A. 2
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 2
Charles Russ Richards 2
Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 2
Douglas, Henry Bowman 2
Drown, Thomas Messinger 2
Dufour, Frank Oliver 2
Elkus Family 2
Emery, Natt M. (Natt Morrill), 1873-1935 2
Estes, William L. (William Lawrence), 1855-1940 2
Franklin, William S. (William Suddards), 1863-1930 2
Frazier, Benjamin West (1841-1905) 2
Fry, David 2
Gatewood, John 2
Grossart, Lewis John Henry 2
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961 2
Harvard University 2
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Hudson, Clarence Walter 2
Hughes, Percy, 1872- 2
Keim, Rollin Reuben 2
Lafayette College (Easton, Northampton County, Pa.) 2
Lambert, Preston A. 2
Leach, Howard Seavoy, 1887-1948 2
Lehigh University – Buildings. 2
Lehigh University – Campus 2
Lehigh University – Students. 2
Lehigh University--Endowments 2
Lehigh University. Administration 2
Lehigh University. Alumni Assocation. 2
Lehigh University. Athletics 2
Lehigh University. Buildings 2
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