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Blair Birdsall Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0175
Abstract
This collection contains the technical and professional documents of consulting engineer Blair Birdsall. Most of the collection are documents pertaining to the multitude of bridges he worked on, including the Golden Gate, Chesapeake Bay, and Brooklyn Bridges, as a consulting engineer or as a design engineer. The collection spans from 1900 to 2002 covering his entire career and also early Steinman Boynton Gronquist & Birdsall and John A. Roebling Sons Engineering companies.
Dates:
Inclusive Dates
Found in:
Lehigh University Grant Projects
Civil Engineering Works Photograph Collection
Item
Identifier: SC Photo-0020
Abstract
The collection of photographs illustrate various types of civil engineering works including the Whipple through truss railroad bridge, Pennsylvania through truss bridge, suspension bridges, cantilever bridges, reinforced concrete arch bridges and buttress dams. Among the bridge photographs are included the Brooklyn Bridge, the Firth of Forth Bridge, the Tay Bridge and Niagara Falls “Honeymoon” Bridge collapses, the Pecos River railroad trestle bridge and the “Luten Design” reinforced...
Dates:
1879-1984; Majority of material found within 1879-1984
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
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- Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 2
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- Adams County (Ohio) 1
- Alvsborg Bridge (Gothenburg, Sweden) 1
- Ambassador International Bridge (Detroit, Michigan) 1
- American River Bridge, California 1
- Angus L. Macdonald Bridge (Halifax - Dartmouth) 1
- Beasley Fork Bridge, Ohio 1
- Belleair (Fla.) 1
- Belleview Bridge, Belleair, Florida 1
- Bidwell Bar Bridge (Oroville, California) 1
- Blair Bridge, Montgomery County, Maryland 1
- Blaw-Knox Pipe Line Bridge (Charleston, Tennessee) 1
- Blueprints 1
- Boulder Dam Bridge (AZ) [Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge] 1
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Bronx-Whitestone Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel (NY) [Hugh L. Carey Tunnel] 1
- Bucksport Suspension Bridge (Bucksport, Maine) [Waldo-Hancock Bridge?] 1
- Cantilever bridges 1
- Cemetery Bridge, Benton Harbor, Michigan 1
- Chains 1
- Chesapeake Bay Bridge (Maryland) 1
- Chester Bridge (Chester, Illinois) 1
- Cicott Street Bridge, Logansport, Indiana 1
- Columns 1
- Composite materials -- Testing 1
- Concrete 1
- Correspondence 1
- Covington-Cincinnati Bridge (Cincinnati, Ohio) [John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge] 1
- Dams 1
- Daule River Bridge (Guayaquil, Ecuador) [National Unity Bridge] 1
- Deer Isle Bridge (Me.) 1
- Delaware Memorial Bridge (New Castle, Delaware) 1
- Delaware River Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Dodge Street (Lincoln Highway) Bridge (Omaha, NE) 1
- East Boston Bridge 1
- East Fredericktown Vesta Coal Preparation Plant 1
- Florianopolis Bridge (Hercilio Luz Bridge, Brazil) 1
- Forth Bridge (South Queensferry, Scotland : Railroad bridge) 1
- Forth Road Bridge (Scotland) 1
- Frames 1
- Fremont Bridge (Seattle, Wash.) 1
- Friction 1
- Garden State Parkway (New Jersey) 1
- George Washington Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Glen Canyon Dam (Ariz.) 1
- Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
- Grand Mère Suspension Bridge (Quebec, Canada) 1
- Harlem River (N.Y.) 1
- Hartford Bridge. 1
- Henry Hudson Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Hutsonville Bridge (Hutsonville, Illinois) 1
- Island Park Bridge, Winfield, Kansas 1
- James River Bridge, Virginia 1
- Karnali Bridge (Nepal) 1
- Mackinac Bridge (Mich.) 1
- Maldonado Bridge (Uruguay) 1
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Martin-Pena Canal (Puerto Rico) 1
- Materials--Testing 1
- Maumee River Bridge, Waterville, Ohio 1
- Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge (Ariz. and Nev.) 1
- Mount Hope Bridge (Bristol, Rhode Island) 1
- New York (N.Y.) 1
- New York State Thruway (New York) 1
- Niagara River Bridge 1
- Notebooks 1
- Panama Bridge (Panama) [Centennial Bridge?] 1
- Park Avenue Viaduct (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Pecos River Bridge 1
- Pecos River High Bridge, Texas 1
- Plates (Engineering) 1
- Railroads 1
- Reinforced Concrete 1
- Reinforced concrete 1
- Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct/Bridge (Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania) 1
- Saskatchewan River Bridge, Saskatoon, Canada 1
- Sciotoville Railroad Bridge (Sciotoville, Ohio) 1
- Severn Bridge (England : Railroad bridge) 1
- Shawnee Bridge, Piqua, Ohio 1
- St. John’s Bridge (Portland, Oregon) 1
- Stability 1
- Steel 1
- Storebaelt Bridge (Denmark) 1
- Stresses and strains 1
- Suspension bridges 1
- Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Tacoma, Wash. : 1940) 1
- Tay Bridge (Dundee, Scotland : Railroad bridge) 1
- Tellicoe River Bridge, Vonore, Tennessee 1
- Thousand Islands Bridge (N.Y. and Ont.) 1
- Torsion 1
- Towers 1
- Truss bridges 1
- Trusses 1
- Verona Island Bridge (ME) [Penobscot Narrows Bridge] 1 ∧ less
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- Ambursen, Nils Frederick, 1876-1953 1
- Champion Bridge Company 1
- Gardner, David I. 1
- Harrington, Howard & Ash Engineers 1
- Luten Bridge Company 1
- Luten Engineering Company 1
- Luten, Daniel B., 1869-1946 1
- National Bridge Company 1
- New York and New Haven Railroad Company 1
- New-York and Harlem Rail Road Company 1
- Phoenix Bridge Company 1
- Post, Simeon S., 1805-1872 1
- Reid, John, 1835-1911 1
- Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works 1
- Sale, Madison 1
- Shelton, Thomas J. 1
- Southern Pacific Railroad Company 1
- Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company 1
- The Watson Manufacturing Company Builders 1
- Unknown 1 ∧ less
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