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Herman Haupt Civil War Military Transportation Photographs
Collection
Identifier: SC Photo-0001
Abstract
This collection contains an incomplete series of photographs taken by Andrew J. Russell under the direction of Herman Haupt. These photographs capture different methods for the construction and deconstruction of bridges and other engineering projects implemented during the Civil War to aid military transportation. These photographs are described in detail by Haupt in the accompanying text volume. A series of images, many of which appear to be illustrations of scenes depicted in the...
Dates:
1863
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Howard Soule Jr. Civil Engineer
Collection
Identifier: SC MS0414
Scope and Contents
The collection contains estimates, proposals and designs for bridge projects in 19 New York towns, mostly in the vicinity of Syracuse, New York. The two folio volumes [one large, one smaller] are engineer’s bridge design notebooks most likely compiled in Syracuse, New York, c. 1871-1884 where the Howard Soule Jr. had his association; they consist of pencil sketches, entry notes and calculations with illustrations, estimates and costs. These two volumes document his estimates and proposals...
Dates:
1829 - 1924; Majority of material found within 1869 - 1884
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Jackson Leland Durkee Papers [Draft]
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0283
Abstract
This collection consists of papers of Jackson Leland Durkee, consulting bridge engineer, related to the bridges mainly in the USA.
Dates:
1930 - 2002
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Joseph Phineas Davis Journal of Travels in Cuzco (Peru)
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0305
Abstract
Informative journal of travels in the region of Puno and Cuzco containing information about the Andean culture, indigenous populations, places, topography, Andean Indian ruins and building features. During the Davis exploration of southeastern Peru he was joined by American archaeologist and U.S. Commissioner to Peru, Ephraim George Squier and together they measured and observed with great care the Inca ruins in the Cuzco region.
Dates:
May 26 to July 29, 1864
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
King Iron Bridge Company Scrapbook, 1892
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0206
Abstract
This scrapbook is an interesting contrast of nineteenth
century ephemera – albumen photographs and chromolithographic trade cards and calling/visiting cards. The
photographs present the metal truss design of bridges built by the King Iron Bridge Company in various places
in the 1880s. The trade cards promoting patent medicines and perfume and the calling cards display the
beautiful art of the chromolithograph printing process. The scrapbook seems to represent a popular Victorian
Era...
Dates:
1880s
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Liscom Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0171
Abstract
This collection is a single family’s involvement in the development of bridge building in 19th century America. The perspective is of a family of New England itinerant entrepreneur bridge builders. The types of bridges noted are specifically the truss and cantilever styles, illustrated with blueprints, drawings and photographs. The correspondence is between family members working for several bridge fabricating companies. The range of time primarily from the mid 1850s to 1905 shows the...
Dates:
1836 to 1905
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Philip Schopp Sketchbook
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0157
Abstract
A manuscript notebook and sketchbook attributed to Philip (Phillip)
Schopp (1828-1893), a German immigrant who was a member of the 75th
Pennsylvania Volunteers Regiment in the American Civil War serving first
as a Captain and later promoted to Colonel before being discharged in 1862.
The notebook contains many superb illustrations mostly from the Schuylkill
Navigation System, the Union Canal, and a few from the Louisville-Portland Canal.
The drawings and notations reflect a career as a...
Dates:
1851-1886
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Photo Album of Bridges by G. W. Philips
Collection — Volume: PHOTO0018.01
Identifier: SC Photo-0018
Abstract
The album contains a collection of photographs of six Pennsylvania bridges and several railroad works possibly inspected by G. W. Philips in a period from 1900 to 1930. Perhaps the most well-known Pennsylvania bridge is the multi concrete arch Hyner Bridge over the Susquehanna River near Renovo, Pennsylvania. The Hell Gate Bridge over the East River in New York City is an anomaly among the construction photographs in the album as the only New York bridge. The album is an interesting...
Dates:
1900-1930; Majority of material found within 1900-1930
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
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
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Photograph of Harlem Bridge over Harlem River at Fourth Avenue, New York, Circa 1867-1871
Item
Identifier: SC Photo-0021
Abstract
John Reid, the acknowledged photographer of this picture, was in his lifetime known as a pioneer photographer of the “Iron Horse” (steam locomotives). He introduced the convention of taking the photographs “from a position just ahead of the smoke box” in the late 1850s. This angle is apparent in this photograph as the 4-4-0 steam locomotive positioned on the Harlem Bridge. The bridge is an example of a Post box-truss type developed by Simeon S. Post in 1863. Based on information printed...
Dates:
Circa 1867-1871
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections