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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

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

Caspar Wistar Haines, Lehigh 1874 Manuscript of “Curvas de Ferro Carril”

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0016
Abstract

The manuscript, in Spanish, of a small book entitled “Curvas de Ferro Carril” (“Railroad Curves”) written by Mr. Haines between 1883 and 1899 while he was working in Mexico. The book was never published. Included is some correspondence from Mr. H. H. Filley about the tables to be used in the book.

Dates: 1883-1899

Charles A. Vinscherer Civil Engineering Notebook

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0122
Abstract

This manuscript describes observations and comparisons of various waterways engineering structures in eastern United States and the Rhineland of Germany. Detailed notations are made about the structures on the Schuylkill Navigation system above Reading, PA and the Louisville – Portland Canal system.

Dates: 1855 to 1881

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

Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Records

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

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

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

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

Howard Soule Jr. Civil Engineer

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS0414
Scope and Contents The collection contains estimates, proposals and designs for bridge projects in 19 New York towns, mostly in the vicinity of Syracuse, New York. The two folio volumes [one large, one smaller] are engineer’s bridge design notebooks most likely compiled in Syracuse, New York, c. 1871-1884 where the Howard Soule Jr. had his association; they consist of pencil sketches, entry notes and calculations with illustrations, estimates and costs. These two volumes document his estimates and proposals...
Dates: 1829 - 1924; Majority of material found within 1869 - 1884

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Lehigh University Special Collections 23
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Civil engineers 24
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Notebooks 8
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Civil engineering--Study and teaching 4
Railroad engineering 4
Structural engineering 4
Blueprints 3
Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 3
Bethlehem (Pa.) 2
Bridge engineering 2
Composite materials -- Testing 2
Correspondence 2
Correspondences 2
Drawings (visual works) 2
Engineering 2
Environmental Engineering 2
Erie Canal (N.Y.) 2
Fritz Engineering Laboratory. 2
Iron and steel workers. 2
Iron mines and mining 2
Lecture notes 2
Manuscripts (documents) 2
Mechanical engineers 2
Mining engineering 2
Pamphlets 2
Panama Canal (Panama) 2
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Scrapbooks 2
Susquehanna River. 2
Union Canal (Pa.) 2
Adams County (Ohio) 1
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Aeronautics 1
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Albany (N.Y.) 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
Architects. 1
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Atlanta (Ga.) 1
Auburn, New York 1
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Baldwin Universal Testing Machine 1
Bangkok 1
Bangladesh 1
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Belleair (Fla.) 1
Belleview Bridge, Belleair, Florida 1
Bethlehem Cornwall Corporation 1
Bethlehem Iron Company 1
Bethlehem Mines Corp. 1
Bethlehem Steel Corporation 1
Bidwell Bar Bridge (Oroville, California) 1
Binghamton, New York 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
Bremen, Germany 1
Bridge builders - Nineteenth century 1
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Bridges - iron - Nineteenth century 1
Bridges -- Design and construction 1
Bridges -- Peru -- Nineteenth century 1
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Bridges – Québec (Province) -- Québec. 1
Bridges – Switzerland 1
Bridges-- 1
Bridges; U.S. Bridges; Truss 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
Canal Street, Manhattan, N.Y. 1
Canals 1
Canals -- Panama 1
Cantilever bridges 1
Canton (China) 1
Cayuga County, New York 1
Cement -- testing 1
Cemetery Bridge, Benton Harbor, Michigan 1
Certificates 1
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Language
English 22
Spanish; Castilian 2
es 1
French 1
German 1
 
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Pennsylvania Railroad Company 3
Beedle, Lynn S. 2
Bethlehem Steel Corporation 2
Fritz, John, 1822-1913 2
Lehigh University 2
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Lehigh University. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering 2
Merriman, Mansfield, 1848-1925 2
Ambursen, Nils Frederick, 1876-1953 1
American Railway Engineering Association 1
Astin, Allen Varley 1
Barnako, F. R. 1
Batcheler, Bowen & Wolverton 1
Beckel Iron Foundry 1
Bernhardt, J. 1
Bewley, Loyal Vivian 1
Bodine, Alfred V. 1
Branscom, R. K. 1
Brown, N. 1
Campo, Gabriel Moreno, 1849-1905 1
Century Construction Company 1
Champion Bridge Company 1
Concrete Steel Bridge Company 1
Conrad, James 1
Cornell University 1
Coxe, Eckley B. (Eckley Brinton), 1839-1895 1
Dallman, Martin 1
Drinker, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1850-1937 1
Eney, William J. 1
Ensminger 1
Entrekin, P. B. 1
Errera, Samuel Joseph. 1
Filley, H. H. (Hiel Hamilton) 1
Finn, Bernard S. 1
Fraser, Donald M. 1
Frith, D. L. 1
Fritz Engineering Laboratory 1
Gallagher, Robert Taylor 1
Gardner, David I. 1
Grace, Eugene G. (Eugene Gifford), 1876-1960 1
Grandi, Peter, Sr. 1
Green, B. C. 1
Guider, James W. 1
Haines, Caspar Wistar, -1935 1
Harpel, Kenneth 1
Harrington, Howard & Ash Engineers 1
Hellertown Historical Society 1
Henry Kern Photographer 1
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record 1
Holland, Clifford Milburn 1
Jacoby, Henry Sylvester, 1857-1955 1
James Hollis Wells (Civil Engineering Class of 1885) 1
Karakash, John J. 1
Ketter, Richard 1
Leach, Edward P. 1
Lehigh University – Buildings. 1
Lehigh University – Campus 1
Lehigh University – History 1
Lehigh University – Students. 1
Lehigh University. Class of 1885. 1
Lipensky, Milan 1
Louisville and Portland Canal Company 1
Luten Bridge Company 1
Luten Engineering Company 1
Luten, Daniel B., 1869-1946 1
Lyons, D. S. 1
M. Deveraux & Son, Charleston, West Virginia 1
Maurer, William 1
McNally, Harry John, 1914-1989 1
McNally, Harry John, Jr, 1938- 1
Muhlenberg, Edward Duchman, 1831-1883 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
Numbers, Robert Warren (Class of 1950) 1
Olson, H. O. 1
O’Connell, J. J. 1
Payrow, Harry Gordon (1882-1947?) 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
Rivot, Louis Edouard, 1820-1869 1
Rogich, D. C. 1
Rothwell, Richard P. (Richard Pennefather), 1836-1901 1
Rupkey, A. M. 1
Sale, Madison 1
Schuylkill Navigation Company 1
Schwartz, Ralph 1
Shale, S. J. 1
Shelton, Thomas J. 1
Showers, Lester 1
Singstad, Ole Knutsen 1
Slutter, Roger G. 1
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