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Photographs and blueprints of Washington State Highway Department: Bridges 1920 to 1931

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0291
Abstract

Photographs and blueprints of highway bridges built in the 1920s as part of the State of Washington’s Public Works Department post World War I building program. Also some photographs of bridges built in California, apparently designed by Charles Andrew who was bridge engineer for California State Highway Department as well as Washington State Highway Department and Oregon.

Dates: 1920-01-01 - 1931-12-31

Robert Blum Olney Bridge Design Class Notebook

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0226
Abstract This manuscript contains three bridge design class exercises indicating the instructional process to train engineering students. Specific step-by-step instruction in designing for various railroad bridge spans, building material specifications, structural loads and stresses to be considered as presented in the professor’s lecture. The complete process of calculating the design with comparisons of different conditions, as well as material available, costs incurred of every aspect of the...
Dates: 1891 - 1892

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

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

Wax Lake Bridge Construction Photographs 1940-1941

 Collection — Box: PHOTO 0009.01
Identifier: SC Photo-0009
Abstract A collection of construction photographs of a steel railroad bridge erected on a dry flat plain which eventually became a Mississippi River floodway channel. The channel beneath the bridge elements was dredged after the bridge was constructed. This construction procedure was in reverse of the usual building process. Construction by Bethlehem Steel began in late 1940 and completed in early 1941. The reverse building process was unusual at the time. The bridge is also known as the Wax Lake...
Dates: 1940-1941

William J. Eney papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0117
Abstract Documents and photographs related to Lehigh University Civil Engineering faculty William J. Eney's early teaching years (1930s) at civil engineering summer camps (Canadensis, Pa.) including his lecture documents on bridge engineering, his own invention of testing equipment, correspondence between Smithsonian Institution and Lehigh University about Eney Deformeter, photographs and documents about construction of Fritz Engineering Laboratory addition and Baldwin Universal Testing Machine...
Dates: 1900 - 1982

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Adams County (Ohio) 1
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Bethlehem (Pa.) -- History 1
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Cicott Street Bridge, Logansport, Indiana 1
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Cuzco (Peru) 1
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Beedle, Lynn S. 2
Bethlehem Steel Company 2
Bethlehem Steel Corporation 2
Eney, William J. 2
Fritz, John, 1822-1913 2
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Grace, Eugene G. (Eugene Gifford), 1876-1960 2
Lehigh University 2
Louisville and Portland Canal Company 2
Merriman, Mansfield, 1848-1925 2
Schuylkill Navigation Company 2
Sutherland, Hale, 1884- 2
Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company 2
Union Canal Company of Pennsylvania 2
Unknown 2
Ambursen, Nils Frederick, 1876-1953 1
American Cable Company, Inc. 1
American Railway Engineering Association 1
Astin, Allen Varley 1
Batcheler, Bowen & Wolverton 1
Battey, Edward 1
Beckel Iron Foundry 1
Bewley, Loyal Vivian 1
Bodine, Alfred V. 1
Bugbee, Bertie H. 1
C. I. Hood & Co. Lowell, Mass 1
Carroll, Katie 1
Carroll, Minnie A. 1
Cartwright, Ellen 1
Caryle, Minnie 1
Champion Bridge Company 1
Chester Creek Bridge 1
Concrete Steel Bridge Company 1
Conradi, G.A. 1
Cornell University 1
Dallman, Martin 1
Delaware Bridge Joint Commission of the States of Pennsylvania and New Jersey 1
Dillard, Sophia E. 1
Donovan, Mary A. 1
Dromgoold, Lizzie M 1
Dromgoole, Agnes J. 1
Dromgoole, Mary E. 1
Durkee, Jackson Leland 1
Durkee, Judith 1
E. W. Hoyt & Co. Lowell, Mass 1
Errera, Samuel Joseph. 1
Finn, Bernard S. 1
Flowers, R. C. 1
Fritz Engineering Laboratory 1
G. E. Marsh & Company 1
Gallagher, Robert Taylor 1
Garcelon, H. S. 1
Gardner, David I. 1
Gibson, Glenn James 1
Gillooley, Dora M. 1
Glyillory, Dorra 1
Grossart, Lewis John Henry 1
H. S. Garcelon Iodine & Medicine Dayville, Conn. 1
Harpel, Kenneth 1
Harrington, Howard & Ash Engineers 1
Havercamp's Photographs 1
Hellertown Historical Society 1
Henry Kern Photographer 1
Henry, Nellie A. 1
Herney, Annie 1
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record 1
Hubbard, Frederick 1
Hubbard, Frederick, 1817-1895 1
Hudson, Clarence Walter 1
Jacoby, Henry Sylvester, 1857-1955 1
Johnston, Archibald, 1865-1948 1
Johnston, Bruce Gilbert, 1905- 1
Karakash, John J. 1
Keim, Rollin Reuben 1
Keystone State Construction Company 1
King Bridge Company Cleveland, Ohio 1
King Iron Bridge Company 1
King Iron Bridge and Manufacture Company 1
King, George E. 1
King, Harry W. 1
King, James A. 1
King, Norman C. 1
King, Zenas 1
Knapp & Company New York 1
Lebanon Valley Railroad Company. 1
Lee, Mabel 1
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company 1
Lehigh University – Students. 1
Lehigh University. Department of Civil Engineering 1
Liscomb, Lemuel F., 1841-1916 1
Luten Bridge Company 1
Luten Engineering Company 1
Luten, Daniel B., 1869-1946 1
Lynach, Rosie A. 1
M. Deveraux & Son, Charleston, West Virginia 1
Martin, Edward, 1879-1967 1
McAlpine, Charles S. 1
McAlpine, William J. (William Jarvis) 1
McClintic-Marshall Corporation 1
Melia, Annie 1
Mellor, Emma 1
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