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Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0253
Abstract
Interesting examples of engineering calculations and observations before the age of computers. Some books have calculations recording the Lehigh River flow and flood stages as well as New York City engineering works at the turn of the twentieth century.
Dates:
1893-1910; Majority of material found within 1901-1902
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0146
Abstract
Ernest Nevin Dilworth was a professor of English at Lehigh from 1949 to 1977. Collection contains manuscript drafts of his published work and reference/citation cards, notes, and correspondence with publishers and colleagues.
Dates:
1949-1990; Majority of material found within 1949-1977
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0190
Abstract
Frederick Burritt Peck, a geologist, created a notebook detailing information regarding the Vanport Limestone in Lawrence County in Pennsylvania. His preliminary report is divided into different topics about the limestone from its availability to its general description. The destination of the report is unknown.
Dates:
1898 to 1955
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0189
Abstract
This manuscript primarily presents the civil
engineering problems from Prof. Mansfield Merriman’s class on “Materials of Mechanics.” Also,
included in the notebook is a curious collection of “recipes” for making beer, brick, bread,
glass of various types, coloring pottery, glycerine, descriptions of various telegraph systems:
duplex differential method as perfected by Frischer, duplex bridge method perfected by Dr.
Muirhead, and the Atlantic Cable System as well as a blueprint from the...
Dates:
1896-19??
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0461
Abstract
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Dates:
1935 - 2003
Collection
Identifier: SC MS0267
Abstract
Interesting display of genealogical research establishing Lehigh University President, Charles Russ Richards, related to noteworthy inventor and engineer, James Watt.
Dates:
1833 - 1941; Majority of material found within 1833 - 1941
File
Identifier: SC MS 0090
Abstract
George and Helen Papashvily Archives consists of manuscripts, correspondence with publishers and agents, and clippings of articles Helen Papashvily wrote. Also included are photographs of George's sculptures, exhibition catalogs and programs, and correspondence concerning his ventures. The third section of the material includes cartons of letters from readers, fans, and friends; a box of slides and other ephemera, including the two hoods from their honorary degrees.
Dates:
1996
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0247
Abstract
An extensive collection of correspondence, information and genealogical searches made by current family members to trace ancestors into the Seventeenth Century when it is believed the first of the Girdlers came to the American colonies. The early ancestors settled in Marblehead, Essex County, Massachusetts and were involved in the mariner trade as sailors, masters and captains of merchant ships. Perhaps the most famous was Lewis Girdler, master of the “Betsy” who was a licensed privateer...
Dates:
1783 to 1995; Majority of material found within 1802 to 1915
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0019
Abstract
Correspondence, handwritten and also edited transcription of diaries and records of the donation of his personal library of Harvey Bassler, who was a geologist for Standard Oil Company in Peru, from 1920-1932. Included are the diaries and other notes he took on his field trips in Peru, an edited copy of the diaries and the duplicated compilation of the diaries written by Bradford Willard in 1965-1966, as well as much personal correspondence during the period. Also included is a list of the...
Dates:
1900-1968; Majority of material found within 1926-1939
Collection
Identifier: SC MS0361
Scope and Contents
Her Sketchbook of Interior Designs contains exquisitely drawn illustrations of architectural features, interior room design, jewelry designs, lamp shade design and furniture, along with some class notes and brief histories of particular furniture design eras, ie: Louis XIV and XVI, Elizabethan, Sheraton, Chippendale, etc.. Collection contains 45 pencil drawings on stained heavy ivory paper bound in a greyish brown buckram two ring binder measuring 27.5 x 21 x 2.5 cm wrapped in a mylar...
Dates:
1915 - 1919; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1919