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Lehigh University Chemistry Notebooks, 1881-1897

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Identifier: SC MS 0038

Overview Contains four notebooks by Lehigh University students George Duck '82, J.W. Richards '86, J.W. Boyd '90, and Edward S. Knisely ‘97 from chemistry classes at the University. Titles of courses and instructors' names are not indicated.

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Lehigh University Plan by Henry Coppee

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Identifier: SC MS 0332

Overview This manuscript incorporates Lehigh University's first president Henry Coppee's ideas for a plan as well as a diary of his early years at Lehigh University. Before coming to Lehigh Coppee had a distinguished career in the U.S. Army and at University of Pennsylvania. With suggestions from Bishop William Stevens, Lehigh's first president of the Board of Trustees and T. R. Jencks, a scholar from Harvard University, Coppée formulated the student course of study, the laws of governance and a...

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Lehigh Valley Railroad Documents

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Identifier: SC MS 0159

Overview Reflected in this collection is the bureaucracy of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company from a train conductor’s view. The collection contains bulletins, supplements to bulletins, correspondence about operation of trains, train fares, schedules of train stations, time tables, conductor’s documentation of passengers’ destinations, tickets issued and material especially about the Black Diamond Express – the LVRR’s most famous train.

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

LEPOCO (Lehigh-Pocono Committee of Concern) Archives

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Identifier: SC MS 0174

Overview LEPOCO, the Lehigh-Pocono Committee of Concern, is a non-profit citizens group of approximately 1000 members (as of 2015), based in the Lehigh Valley. Founded in 1965 to oppose the war in Vietnam, LEPOCO's concerns have broadened to include a range of problems that endanger peace and the planet. The collection includes memorabilia preserved from numerous events, newsletters, meeting minutes, and publications. The documents record not only the activities of LEPOCO but also almost the entire...

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Lester Bernstein Physical Laboratory Notebook

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Identifier: SC MS 0166

Overview Lester Bernstein graduated from Lehigh University in 1904 with a degree in Civil Engineering. Bernstein, the Civil Engineering Society Treasurer and President, was awarded the Civil Engineering Society Prize in 1902-03. The collection consists of a Physical Laboratory Notebook from his second semester freshman year (Feb. 1901 – Jun. 1901). This notebook includes experiments on the study of thermal expansion, use of a barometer and the study of the principles of movement.

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Location of Pipes in the Lehigh University Park

Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0200

Overview An historical engineering viewpoint of the campus facilities of 1885 with small location maps of buildings, streets, water and gas pipes drawn by survey measurements.

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Obed Hathaway Logbook from Ship “Bedford” 1789-1796

Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0218

Overview An interesting document describing a young man’s apprenticeship at sea learning the seaman’s trade and passing his free time writing poetry and songs to entertain his ship board companions. The date of this logbook is the late eighteenth century describes the early American whaling trade out of New Bedford, Massachusetts later forever immortalized in Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick.”

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

[Panama Canal]: Memoria y Planos de un Anteproyecto para la Terminacion del Canal de Panama

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Identifier: SC MS 0258

Scope and Contents The collection is a single manuscript measuring 21.5 x 15.5 cm. stored in a black paper wrapped box measuring 27 x 22 x 3 cm. The manuscript is contained within stiff card paper covers of burgundy colored paper with gilt title “Memoria y Planos de un anteprocyecto para la terminacion del Canal De Panamá por D. Gabriel M. Campo” and decorative borders. The pages are edged in red. It is illustrated with three folded plans including two blue prints: Proyecto de construccion en túnel Plano, Perfil...

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Papers of Arthur Murray

Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0147

Overview This collection contains the papers and belongings of Arthur F. Murray, Lehigh University class of 1905. It provides information on Murray’s work on engineering rifles during World War I, as well as his professional interests and time at Lehigh. The collection is composed of 20 items including textbooks, newspaper clippings, notebooks, ledgers, periodicals, and ephemera.

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Philip Schopp Sketchbook

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Identifier: SC MS 0157

Overview 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...

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

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Lehigh University Chemistry Notebooks, 1881-1897

Lehigh University Plan by Henry Coppee

Lehigh Valley Railroad Documents

LEPOCO (Lehigh-Pocono Committee of Concern) Archives

Lester Bernstein Physical Laboratory Notebook

Location of Pipes in the Lehigh University Park

Obed Hathaway Logbook from Ship “Bedford” 1789-1796

[Panama Canal]: Memoria y Planos de un Anteproyecto para la Terminacion del Canal de Panama

Papers of Arthur Murray

Philip Schopp Sketchbook

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