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Photo Album of Hill-to-Hill Bridge Construction

 Collection
Identifier: SC Photo-0035
Abstract

Album contains small black and white photographs many of the siting and building of the Hill-to-Hill Bridge over the Lehigh River connecting the two Bethlehems in Pennsylvania. Also in the album are photographs of young men in graduation gowns, college dorm life and young people cavorting in outdoor activities.

Dates: 1921 - 1924

Ralph G. Schwarz collection

 File
Identifier: SC MS 0321
Abstract

Documents related to the creation of the Lehigh Music Festivals of 1948-1949: correspondence, photographs, booklets, flyers, publications, clippings, 2 albums of vinyl records of audio recordings of the actual performances. Also included are Chi Psi Fraternity directories and the Class of 1948 50th reunion files. Ralph G. Schwarz was an active and creative member of all the entities stated.

Dates: 1948-1949

Records of the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0314
Abstract Documents in this collection are from the City of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, concerning redevelopment and urban renewal projects in the city from 1953 to 1999. The collection contains reports, meeting minutes, maps, site plans, architectural drawings and other publications related to urban renewal projects of Packer Avenue, Webster and Butler Streets and Northampton Heights in South Bethlehem, and Broad and Main Streets, Civic Center and Monocacy Creek in North...
Dates: 1953-1999; Majority of material found within 1953-1976

Richard H. Tucker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0041
Abstract

This collection includes documents from Richard H. Tucker’s days as both a student and a professor at Lehigh University, such as correspondences, newspaper clippings, scrapbook, diplomas, certificates and photographs.

Dates: 1875-1894

Richard Harding Davis Correspondence and Other Documents

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0001
Abstract Richard Harding Davis, 1864-1916, was a student at Lehigh University from 1882-1884. During his stay he wrote many novels and short stories and was a prominent war correspondent during the Spanish-American War (1898). The documents here include letters, telegrams and notes, mostly written by Davis. It is predominantly letters to his publisher, J. Henry Harper, at Harper and Brothers, but also includes other letters to Raymond H. Walters, Lehigh University, a few letters from Rebecca Harding...
Dates: 1887-1916

Samuel Harrison Tilghman, Lehigh Class of 1907, Bridge Design Portfolio

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS0179
Abstract This document is a collection of class assignments in bridge design and topographic drawing offered at the turn of the twentieth century in Lehigh University’s civil engineering curricula. The assignment included making drawings for a truss bridge design proposed for crossing the Monocacy Creek, plotting a plan for a proposed trolley line in Delaware County, the surveying calculations for a railroad on South Mountain, a survey of Lehigh’s campus at the time, a plot of land in Saucon Valley,...
Dates: 1904 - 1907

South Mountain Forest Program Reports, 1957-1964

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0373
Abstract

Four progress reports describing a little known forestry project created by Bethlehem Steel Corporation during the late 1950s and 1960s on Bethlehem’s South Mountain in order to manage the woods for construction of a research center. The project was known as the South Mountain Research Center, later named as Homer Research Laboratories. The center was established to deal with timber management and land reclamation.

Dates: 1957-1964

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

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

Walnut Street Bridge, Hellertown (Pa.)

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0367
Abstract

Detailed drawings of the structural members of a historic cast-iron Pratt-truss bridge which the students of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Lehigh University used for refurbishing and reconstructing the bridge in a public park in nearby Hellertown, Pennsylvania.

Dates: 1991

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Sayre, Robert H. (Robert Heysham), 1824-1907 5
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Johnston, Archibald, 1865-1948 3
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Lehigh University – History 3
Packer Family 3
Schwab, Charles M., 1862-1939 3
Wilbur, E. P. (Elisha Packer), 1833-1910 3
ArtsQuest 2
Bach Choir of Bethlehem (Bethlehem, Pa.) 2
Beedle, Lynn S. 2
Bethlehem Steel Company 2
Blake, Robert William, 1864-1921 2
Brodhead Family 2
Chandler, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1906 2
Coxe, Eckley B. (Eckley Brinton), 1839-1895 2
Cummings, Mary Hannah Packer, 1839-1912 2
Doolittle, C. L. (Charles Leander), 1843-1919 2
Drown, Thomas M., (Thomas Messinger), 1842-1904 2
Drown, Thomas Messinger 2
Emery, Natt M. (Natt Morrill), 1873-1935 2
Franklin, William S. (William Suddards), 1863-1930 2
Grace, Eugene G. (Eugene Gifford), 1876-1960 2
Hudson, Clarence Walter 2
Lehigh University--Alumni and alumnae. 2
Linderman, Garrett B. 2
Linderman, Lucy Evelyn 2
Linderman, Robert Packer 2
Mack, James D. (James Decker), 1916- 2
Merriman, Mansfield, 1848-1925 2
New York times 2
Packer, Sarah Minerva (Blakslee) 2
Pfeifle, Robert, 1880-1958 2
Sayre, William Heysham 2
Stevens, William Bacon, 1815-1887 2
Taylor, Robert S. 2
Thornburg, Charles Lewis 2
Trembley, Francis J., (1904-1978) 2
Tucker, R. H. (Richard Hawley), 1859-1952 2
Wilbur, Warren A. 2
Wolle Family 2
Young Men's Christian Association (Lehigh University) 2
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. 1
Alfred University 1
Altemus, Charles 1
Arthur , James B. 1
Ashbaugh, F. R. 1
Ashby, James C. 1
Atticks, Harry Jacob, 1867-1949 1
Babasinian, Vahan S. 1
Bach, Johann Sebastian 1
Baker, Gretchen Wolle Prescott 1
Balabkins, Nicholas, 1926-2023 1
Barber, Laird H. 1
Barker Family 1
Barker, Laura Shatsie 1
Barker, Lucy Helen 1
Barnes, Harry Elmer, 1889-1968 1
Barthold, William G. (William Gregory Barthold) 1
Bartholomew, Ralph J. 1
Bartlett, Ralph L. 1
Beardslee, Claude 1
Beck, George C. 1
Beckel Iron Foundry 1
Becker, Sylvanus A. 1
Benz, Paul Frederick, LU'22 1
Berkeley, William N. 1
Bernhardt, Clayton W. 1
Bethlehem (Pa.). Redevelopment Authority. 1
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Bethlehem Housing Authority 1
Bickley, John H. 1
Birckhead, Malbone Hunter 1
Bird, Frederic Mayer 1
Bispham, George Tucker, 1838-1906 1
Blackfriars of Moravian College. 1
Blake, Robert W. 1
Bowman's Creek Land & Lumbering Company 1
Bradford, Mary Jane 1
Bradford, William 1
Brady, Francis M. 1
Brashear, John A. 1
Brodhead, Abraham 1
Brodhead, Camelia 1
Brodhead, Charles 1
Brodhead, Daniel D. 1
Brodhead, Hannah Drake 1
Brodhead, Jennie Seymour 1
Brodhead, Mary Bradford 1
Brodhead, Rachel 1
Brodhead, Richard 1
Brodrick Family 1
Brodrick, Mary Ann 1
Broun, Maurice, 1906-1979 1
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