A. Roy Eckardt Papers contain drafts of publications, published books and articles, correspondence, scrapbooks, audio recordings about Judaism, Christianity, Jewish-Christian relations, Holocaust. There are also family and personal material, Lehigh University administrative documents.
Dates:
1939 - 1998; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1994
Fascinating notations of an amateur scientist whose profession and training was as a man of the cloth who acquired a fine microscope and was very diligent in making observations of algae, mosses and blood of animals and humans. Reverend Kitchel made beautiful colored illustrations of his observations and consulted with others regarding his observations. He classed his observations as field notes. He and his family had a number of connections to Lehigh University.
Abstract
A selective collection of newspaper caricatures, cartoons, sketches and portraits of the Beecher family especially related to the scandalous adultery trial in 1875 involving the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher and Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton. Beecher was the younger brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” The entire Beecher family was involved in the abolition cause. The collection of illustrations bound in this volume are an interesting evidence of the public opinion of...
Scope and Contents
The manuscript measures 27.5 x 21.5 x 2 cm. The binding is worn and singed brown calf leather with faint traces of gilded decoration on the edges. The cover is thick board separated from the spine with white ink notation S 578.421 C17s. Inside the front board is written in pencil 617 scratched out and 439 and 1000, as well as the bookplate of Sir Thomas E.M. Turton, Bart. Sir Thomas E.M. Turton, Bart. (1790-1854) was the second baronet succeeding to the title in 1844. Since the...
Dates:
1446 - 1823; Majority of material found within 1529 - 1575