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Birkinbine Engineering Company Records, Collection I

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0084.1
Abstract

This collection includes books, bound pamphlets and offprints, maps and drawings, letter books, ore samples, photographs, and manuscript material regarding the Birkinbine Engineering Company.

Dates: ca. 1860 to ca. 1940
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

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

Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Records

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0263
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1969-2000; 1946-2003
Found in: Lehigh University Grant Projects

Engineering Drawing Plates, Lehigh University Course No. CE 1

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS0446
Abstract

A portfolio of instruction introducing civil engineering students to the basics of engineering drawing and blueprint plans used in Lehigh’s Civil Engineering curriculum in the days before computer science.

Dates: 1940 - 1941; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1941
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

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
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

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
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

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

 File
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,...
Dates: 1892-1894
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

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
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Professor Mansfield Merriman Lecture Notes Taken by Edgar A. Borhek, 1904

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS0266
Abstract

The lecture notes reflect an interesting view into the field of civil engineering at the turn of the twentieth century. The notes indicate that a student in civil engineering was expected to have a multidisciplinary diversity. Some examples given in the lectures illustrate the broad field of knowledge possessed by Professor Mansfield Merriman.

Dates: 1904
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

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Lehigh University Special Collections 10
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Subject
Civil engineering 9
Notebooks 5
Civil engineering--Study and teaching 4
Photographs 4
Blueprints 3
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Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 3
Bridge engineering 2
Bridges 2
Correspondence 2
Correspondences 2
Drawings (visual works) 2
Panama Canal (Panama) 2
Railroad bridges 2
Scrapbooks 2
Structural engineering 2
Adams County (Ohio) 1
Allegheny River 1
Alvsborg Bridge (Gothenburg, Sweden) 1
Ambassador International Bridge (Detroit, Michigan) 1
American River Bridge, California 1
Anchorage 1
Angus L. Macdonald Bridge (Halifax - Dartmouth) 1
Architects. 1
Architecture 1
Atlanta (Ga.) 1
Authors 1
Baldwin Universal Testing Machine 1
Bangkok 1
Bangladesh 1
Beasley Fork Bridge, Ohio 1
Belleair (Fla.) 1
Belleview Bridge, Belleair, Florida 1
Bethlehem (Pa.) 1
Bidwell Bar Bridge (Oroville, California) 1
Blair Bridge, Montgomery County, Maryland 1
Blaw-Knox Pipe Line Bridge (Charleston, Tennessee) 1
Bogota 1
Bombay 1
Boston 1
Boulder Dam Bridge (AZ) [Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge] 1
Bridges -- Design and construction 1
Bridges -- Peru -- Nineteenth century 1
Bridges – Québec (Province) -- Québec. 1
Bridges – Switzerland 1
Bridges-- 1
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) 1
Bronx-Whitestone Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel (NY) [Hugh L. Carey Tunnel] 1
Brunei 1
Brussells 1
Bucksport Suspension Bridge (Bucksport, Maine) [Waldo-Hancock Bridge?] 1
Bucktail Trail 1
Budapest 1
Bulgaria 1
Cairo 1
Camrbridge 1
Canadensis (Pa.) 1
Canals -- Panama 1
Cantilever bridges 1
Canton (China) 1
Cement -- testing 1
Cemetery Bridge, Benton Harbor, Michigan 1
Certificates 1
Chains 1
Chesapeake Bay Bridge (Maryland) 1
Chester Bridge (Chester, Illinois) 1
Chicago 1
Chicago Drainage Canal 1
Cicott Street Bridge, Logansport, Indiana 1
Civil Engineering -- Testing 1
Clinton County, Pennsylvania 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Color photographs. 1
Color slides. 1
Columns 1
Composite materials -- Testing 1
Concrete 1
Covington-Cincinnati Bridge (Cincinnati, Ohio) [John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge] 1
Cuzco (Peru) 1
Dams 1
Dams; Power Plants 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
Denver 1
Detroit 1
Diplomas 1
Dodge Street (Lincoln Highway) Bridge (Omaha, NE) 1
Dubai 1
Eads Bridge (Saint Louis, Mo.) 1
East Boston Bridge 1
East Fredericktown Vesta Coal Preparation Plant 1
East River, New York 1
Eney deformeter 1
Environmental Engineering 1
Erie Canal (N.Y.) 1
Erie, Pennsylvania 1
Florianopolis Bridge (Hercilio Luz Bridge, Brazil) 1
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Language
English 11
es 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
 
Names
Beedle, Lynn S. 2
Lehigh University 2
Lehigh University. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering 2
Merriman, Mansfield, 1848-1925 2
Pennsylvania Railroad Company 2
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Ambursen, Nils Frederick, 1876-1953 1
American Railway Engineering Association 1
Astin, Allen Varley 1
Bethlehem Steel Corporation 1
Bewley, Loyal Vivian 1
Bodine, Alfred V. 1
Campo, Gabriel Moreno, 1849-1905 1
Champion Bridge Company 1
Concrete Steel Bridge Company 1
Cornell University 1
Drinker, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1850-1937 1
Eney, William J. 1
Errera, Samuel Joseph. 1
Finn, Bernard S. 1
Fritz Engineering Laboratory 1
Fritz, John, 1822-1913 1
Gallagher, Robert Taylor 1
Gardner, David I. 1
Grace, Eugene G. (Eugene Gifford), 1876-1960 1
Harpel, Kenneth 1
Harrington, Howard & Ash Engineers 1
Henry Kern Photographer 1
Jacoby, Henry Sylvester, 1857-1955 1
Karakash, John J. 1
Luten Bridge Company 1
Luten Engineering Company 1
Luten, Daniel B., 1869-1946 1
National Bridge Company 1
Neville, Harvey A. (Harvey Alexander), 1898-1983 1
Pennsylvania Department of Highways/Transportation 1
Philips, G. W. 1
Phoenix Bridge Company 1
Sale, Madison 1
Shelton, Thomas J. 1
Slutter, Roger G. 1
Smiley, E. Kenneth 1
Sopko, Richard N. 1
Southern Pacific Railroad Company 1
Stottard, George Dinsmore 1
Stout, Robert D 1
Sutherland, Hale, 1884- 1
Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company 1
Unknown 1
Vogel, Robert M. 1
Whitaker, Martin Dewey, 1902-1960 1
Worthington, William E. 1
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