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Fritz Engineering Laboratory “Project 237” Documents

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0143
Abstract “Project 237” was created by the Lehigh University Department of Civil Engineering for the purpose of recording Fritz Engineering Laboratory research history. During the decades, especially from the earliest days of the first decade (1910) of operation to the mid 1980s, Fritz Engineering Laboratory was a center of important civil engineering research doing research that would be included in the nation’s building specifications such as AASHTO, ACI, ASTM, AWS. The Lab was known worldwide for...
Dates: 1952-2007

Henry Sylvester Jacoby Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0063
Abstract

Henry S. Jacoby Papers contains diplomas and certificates he received, drawings and illustrations for some of his books, scrapbooks about Lehigh (1872-1877), typescripts of some of his publications, and correspondence to and from the American Railway Engineering Association. The correspondence is of special to any engineer interested in the work involved in formulating a textbook or the forensics of old bridges.

Dates: 1872 - 1944

Herman Haupt Civil War Military Transportation Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SC Photo-0001
Abstract This collection contains an incomplete series of photographs taken by Andrew J. Russell under the direction of Herman Haupt. These photographs capture different methods for the construction and deconstruction of bridges and other engineering projects implemented during the Civil War to aid military transportation. These photographs are described in detail by Haupt in the accompanying text volume. A series of images, many of which appear to be illustrations of scenes depicted in the...
Dates: 1863

Joseph Phineas Davis Journal of Travels in Cuzco (Peru)

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0305
Abstract

Informative journal of travels in the region of Puno and Cuzco containing information about the Andean culture, indigenous populations, places, topography, Andean Indian ruins and building features. During the Davis exploration of southeastern Peru he was joined by American archaeologist and U.S. Commissioner to Peru, Ephraim George Squier and together they measured and observed with great care the Inca ruins in the Cuzco region.

Dates: May 26 to July 29, 1864

King Iron Bridge Company Scrapbook, 1892

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0206
Abstract This scrapbook is an interesting contrast of nineteenth century ephemera – albumen photographs and chromolithographic trade cards and calling/visiting cards. The photographs present the metal truss design of bridges built by the King Iron Bridge Company in various places in the 1880s. The trade cards promoting patent medicines and perfume and the calling cards display the beautiful art of the chromolithograph printing process. The scrapbook seems to represent a popular Victorian Era...
Dates: 1880s

Liscom Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0171
Abstract This collection is a single family’s involvement in the development of bridge building in 19th century America. The perspective is of a family of New England itinerant entrepreneur bridge builders. The types of bridges noted are specifically the truss and cantilever styles, illustrated with blueprints, drawings and photographs. The correspondence is between family members working for several bridge fabricating companies. The range of time primarily from the mid 1850s to 1905 shows the...
Dates: 1836 to 1905

Philip Schopp Sketchbook

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0157
Abstract 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...
Dates: 1851-1886

Photo Album of Bridges by G. W. Philips

 Collection — Volume: PHOTO0018.01
Identifier: SC Photo-0018
Abstract The album contains a collection of photographs of six Pennsylvania bridges and several railroad works possibly inspected by G. W. Philips in a period from 1900 to 1930. Perhaps the most well-known Pennsylvania bridge is the multi concrete arch Hyner Bridge over the Susquehanna River near Renovo, Pennsylvania. The Hell Gate Bridge over the East River in New York City is an anomaly among the construction photographs in the album as the only New York bridge. The album is an interesting...
Dates: 1900-1930; Majority of material found within 1900-1930

Photograph of Harlem Bridge over Harlem River at Fourth Avenue, New York, Circa 1867-1871

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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

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Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel (NY) [Hugh L. Carey Tunnel] 1
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Bethlehem Steel Company 3
Eney, William J. 3
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Fritz, John, 1822-1913 2
Grace, Eugene G. (Eugene Gifford), 1876-1960 2
Lehigh University 2
Lehigh University. Department of Civil Engineering 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
E. W. Hoyt & Co. Lowell, Mass 1
Errera, Samuel Joseph. 1
Finn, Bernard S. 1
Flowers, R. C. 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. Dept. of Civil and Environmental 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
Moffett, Agnes L. 1
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