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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
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
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
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
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
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
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
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
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
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
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
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
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
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
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
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Muster Roll of the German Regiment in Service of the United States - Continental Congress June 1778 to December 1780
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; Majority of material found within 1778 - 1780
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Philadelphia Surveyor John H. Levering Ledger
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0173
Abstract
This folio itemizes an interesting view into
the northwestward expansion of the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in an era of growth in the
mid-19th century. What is shown by the surveying entries is the incorporation, by the 1854 Act
of Consolidation, of Roxborough Township and the Borough of Manayunk into the City of Philadelphia’s
21st Ward. A list of landowners requiring surveying services reflects on Lehigh University’s collection
of 18th and 19th century industrial collections with...
Dates:
1873 - 1888
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
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