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Alexander Clark Taylor Journal and Extracts

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0296
Abstract

A journal kept by Alexander Clark Taylor, a primary school teacher from Vineland, New Jersey, contains his recollections of antebellum life on a Virginia plantation.

Dates: 1843-1846

Allentown, Pa. Tax Collector Notebook

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS0432
Scope and Contents The little notebook is divided into parts: the six pages adjacent to hard cover are devoted to rent payments made to the Livingston family and their agents from Oct. 14th 1802 to June 7th 1834; the 24 pages of the reverse side with no hard cover represent payments to various tax collectors and merchants in Allentown, Pennsylvania from June 28th 1802 to July 25th 1865; the center pages of the notebook are blank. The taxes paid on the Graff residence near Eighth and Hamilton Streets were:...
Dates: 1802-10-14 - 1865-7-25

Asa Packer & Lehigh University Newspaper Clippings

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0104
Abstract

This collection contains late 19th and early 20th century newspaper clippings detailing the life and accomplishments of Asa Packer.

Dates: 1843-1912

Delaware River Bridge Construction Photographs, 1921-1926

 Collection
Identifier: SC Photo-0007
Abstract Delaware River Bridge (also known as the Benjamin Franklin Bridge from 1956) construction photographs (circa 1921-1926) contain 208 photographs and one fiscal report dated 1928. Each of these items relate to the Delaware River Bridge connecting Philadelphia, PA to Camden, N.J. The subjects of the photographs are various on site construction views, several artist’s renderings of the proposed bridge and some neighborhood demolition views. An annual report of 21 pages by the Joint...
Dates: 1921-1926

Estate documents of Harry E. Packer

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0040
Abstract

This collection contains material relating to the settlement of Harry Packer's estate, which was tied in with the settlement of Asa Packer's estate. He was the youngest son of Asa Packer, founder of Lehigh University.

Dates: 1883-1933

Frank E. Ellwanger Commonplace Book 1906-1914

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0169
Abstract An early 20th Century scrapbook containing miscellaneous household tidbits of knowledge, medical remedies, scientific inventions and mechanical observations compiled by Frank Ellwanger, a citizen of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Personal observations and notations as well as articles clipped from newspapers, magazines and brochures are included. With its various recipes for making home remedies and references to do-it-yourself solutions, the volume compares to a receipt book or commonplace...
Dates: 1906-1914

General Lafayette’s Tour of the United States

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0124
Abstract

This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings from the arrival of the Marquis de Lafayette in August 1884 at New York to his visit to Norfolk, Virginia in October 1824. Among the newspaper articles are five engravings depicting General Lafayette.

Dates: August-October 1824

Joseph W. Richards collection

 Series
Identifier: SC MS 0097
Abstract

This collection contains material related to Joseph W. Richards, Lehigh professor and the college’s first PhD recipient, including certificates, awards, property titles, and photographs of the Richards family.

Dates: 1890s - 1901

Lehigh Valley Railroad Documents

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0159
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1870-1981; Majority of material found within 1909-1915

Muster Roll of the German Regiment in Service of the United States

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0167
Abstract A unique record of soldiers of German origin who served the “United States” in the Continental Army under the command of Lt. Col. Ludwig Weltner from Frederick, Maryland as opposed to the German troops who served in the British Army. In May 1776 the Second Continental Congress established the Eighth Maryland Regiment, more popularly known as the German Regiment or German Battalion as an infantry unit. The Regiment was formed of eight companies: four from Maryland and four from Pennsylvania...
Dates: 1778-06 - 1780-12

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Black Diamond Express 1
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Butler, Zebulon, 1731-1795 1
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Chateaugay Ore & Iron Company 1
Cummings, Chas. H. 1
Cummings, Mary Hannah Packer, 1839-1912 1
Delaware Bridge Joint Commission of the States of Pennsylvania and New Jersey 1
Dickson, Beitler & McCouch Law Offices 1
Doolittle, C. L. (Charles Leander), 1843-1919 1
Drinker, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1850-1937 1
E. P. Wilbur Bank & Trust Company 1
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Ellwanger, Frank E. 1
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Graff, Catherine , 1780?-1865? 1
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Gummere, R. Morris 1
Haussegger, Nicholas, 1729-1786 1
Johannot, Antoine, 1803-1852 1
John H. Levering (1831 – c.1897) 1
Keystone State Construction Company 1
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834 1
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de—Journeys—United States 1
Lamberton, Robert Alexander, 1824-1893 1
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820 1
Lehigh University 1
Lehigh University – History 1
Lehigh University. Buildings 1
Lehigh Valley Transit Company 1
Levering, John H. 1
Linderman Skeer Company 1
Livingston 1
Livingston, Henry Walter, 1768-1810 1
Livingston, Walter C., 1799-1872 1
London Mine Company 1
Martin, Edward, 1879-1967 1
Moreau, John Bostwick (1812-1886) 1
National Car Wheel Company 1
New York Shipbuilding Corporation 1
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company 1
Packard, James Ward, 1863-1928 1
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