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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

Carl H. Bechhoefer, Class of 1910, Lehigh memorabilia

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0382
Abstract

Class and Reunion memorabilia, and civil engineering service photographs and a notebook (law study and research notes) of Carl Haydn Bechhoefer, Lehigh Class of 1910. Donated by grandnephew, Eric Young.

Dates: 1910 - 1940

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

Construction Photographs of Bridge Over 9th Street in Chester, Pennsylvania

 Collection
Identifier: SC Photo-0002
Abstract

28 black & white photographs documenting the destruction of the old one and construction of the new bridge over 9th Street in Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1925 to 1926.

Dates: 1925-1926

Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Records

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0263
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1969-2000; 1946-2003

Harry John McNally Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0377
Abstract

Harry John McNally's personal and professional documents mostly related to Madison Square Garden & Penn Station

Dates: 1935 - 1989

Ivan Viest Books, Publications, Presentations

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0225
Abstract

Publications, presentation notes, and presentations on structural engineering, load and resistance factor design for steel structures, bridge testing and composite construction using steel and concrete. Presentations took place at universities and ASCE and AISC conferences.

Dates: 1980-2004

Philip I. and Muriel M. Berman Papers Collection II

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0115
Scope and Contents The Philip I. and Muriel M. Berman Papers: Collection II provides extensive documentation of the various interrelated interests and activities of Philip and Muriel Berman. These include their involvement with Jewish causes, such as State of Israel Bonds, the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Publication Society, and Hadassah; collecting art (especially outdoor sculpture), donating art (especially to educational institutions and hospitals), and encouraging artists (Israeli artists among...
Dates: 1863 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1943 - 1997

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

Photo Album of Hill-to-Hill Bridge Construction

 Collection
Identifier: SC Photo-0035
Abstract

Album contains small black and white photographs many of the siting and building of the Hill-to-Hill Bridge over the Lehigh River connecting the two Bethlehems in Pennsylvania. Also in the album are photographs of young men in graduation gowns, college dorm life and young people cavorting in outdoor activities.

Dates: 1921 - 1924

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Lehigh University -- Alumni and alumnae 3
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Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 2
Composite materials -- Testing 2
Correspondence 2
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Jersey City (N.J.) 2
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black-and-white photographs 2
Adams County (Ohio) 1
Allegheny River 1
Alvsborg Bridge (Gothenburg, Sweden) 1
Ambassador International Bridge (Detroit, Michigan) 1
American River Bridge, California 1
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Angus L. Macdonald Bridge (Halifax - Dartmouth) 1
Arch Dams -- testing 1
Architects. 1
Art -- Collectors and collecting 1
Art, Israeli 1
Atlanta (Ga.) 1
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Baldwin Universal Testing Machine 1
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Belleview Bridge, Belleair, Florida 1
Bethlehem (Pa.) 1
Bethlehem (Pa.) -- History 1
Bethlehem Cornwall Corporation 1
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Bidwell Bar Bridge (Oroville, California) 1
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Bridges – Switzerland 1
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Bronx (New York, N.Y.) 1
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Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel (NY) [Hugh L. Carey Tunnel] 1
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Canton (China) 1
Cape Colony, South Africa 1
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Cement -- testing 1
Cemetery Bridge, Benton Harbor, Michigan 1
Chains 1
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Chester (Pa.) 1
Chester Bridge (Chester, Illinois) 1
Chicago 1
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Cicott Street Bridge, Logansport, Indiana 1
Civil engineering--Study and teaching 1
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Clinton County, Pennsylvania 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
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Composite Construction 1
Concrete 1
Concrete slabs -- Design and Construction 1
Concrete slabs -- testing 1
Construction workers 1
Covington-Cincinnati Bridge (Cincinnati, Ohio) [John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge] 1
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Beedle, Lynn S. 2
Bethlehem Steel Corporation 2
Fritz Engineering Laboratory 2
Lehigh University. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering 2
Pennsylvania Railroad Company 2
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Ambursen, Nils Frederick, 1876-1953 1
Astin, Allen Varley 1
Babcock & Wilcox 1
Baldwin-Westinghouse 1
Barnako, F. R. 1
Bechhoefer, Carl H. (Carl Haydn), 1883-1946 1
Bellis-Morcom Co. 1
Berman Family 1
Bernhardt, J. 1
Bewley, Loyal Vivian 1
Bodine, Alfred V. 1
Bowie Family 1
Bowie, William C., 1872-1940 1
Branscom, R. K. 1
Brigham, Alexander Fay 1
Brown, N. 1
Bultfontein Mine 1
Century Construction Company 1
Champion Bridge Company 1
Charles Russ Richards 1
Chester Creek Bridge 1
Concrete Steel Bridge Company 1
Conrad, James 1
De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. 1
Drinker, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1850-1937 1
Dutoitspan Mine 1
Eney, William J. 1
Ensminger 1
Entrekin, P. B. 1
Eric Doolittle (1870-1920) Lehigh Class 1891 (CE) 1
Errera, Samuel Joseph. 1
Finn, Bernard S. 1
Fraser, Donald M. 1
Frith, D. L. 1
Fritz, John, 1822-1913 1
Fuller, John Torrey 1
Gallagher, Robert Taylor 1
Gardner, David I. 1
General Electric Company 1
Grace, Eugene G. (Eugene Gifford), 1876-1960 1
Grandi, Peter, Sr. 1
Green, B. C. 1
Guider, James W. 1
Harpel, Kenneth 1
Harrington, Howard & Ash Engineers 1
Havercamp's Photographs 1
Henry Kern Photographer 1
Holland, Clifford Milburn 1
James Cochrane & Co. 1
Karakash, John J. 1
Ketter, Richard 1
Kimberley Mine 1
Kimberley Underground Mines 1
Leach, Edward P. 1
Lipensky, Milan 1
Luten Bridge Company 1
Luten Engineering Company 1
Luten, Daniel B., 1869-1946 1
Lyons, D. S. 1
Maurer, William 1
McNally, Harry John, 1914-1989 1
McNally, Harry John, Jr, 1938- 1
Merriman, Mansfield, 1848-1925 1
Myers, James A. 1
Naftzinger, A. Wayne 1
National Bridge Company 1
Neil, C. R. 1
Neville, Harvey A. (Harvey Alexander), 1898-1983 1
New Jersey Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission 1
Olson, H. O. 1
O’Connell, J. J. 1
Parson Westinghouse Co. 1
Peets, Robert G. 1
Pennsylvania Department of Highways/Transportation 1
Peterson, A. F. 1
Philips, G. W. 1
Phoenix Bridge Company 1
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey 1
Post, M. P. 1
Renfrew, R. T. 1
Rhodes, Cecil John 1
Rogich, D. C. 1
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 1
Rupkey, A. M. 1
Sale, Madison 1
Schwartz, Ralph 1
Seymour, T. J. 1
Shale, S. J. 1
Shelton, Thomas J. 1
Showers, Lester 1
Singstad, Ole Knutsen 1
Slutter, Roger G. 1
Smiley, E. Kenneth 1
Smith, A. T. 1
Sopko, Richard N. 1
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