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Allentown, Pa. Tax Collector Notebook
Collection
Identifier: SC MS0432
Scope and Contents
The little notebook is divided into parts: the six pages adjacent to hard cover are devoted to rent payments made to the Livingston family and their agents from Oct. 14th 1802 to June 7th 1834; the 24 pages of the reverse side with no hard cover represent payments to various tax collectors and merchants in Allentown, Pennsylvania from June 28th 1802 to July 25th 1865; the center pages of the notebook are blank. The taxes paid on the Graff residence near Eighth and Hamilton Streets were:...
Dates:
1802-10-14 - 1865-7-25
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Farmersville Church Record Book
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0186
Abstract
Farmersville Church (currently known as St. John’s Farmersville Church, Easton, Pennsylvania) record book that contains information in several handwritings on weddings, baptisms, funerals for the year of 1877.
Dates:
1877
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Philip Schopp Sketchbook
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0157
Abstract
A manuscript notebook and sketchbook attributed to Philip (Phillip)
Schopp (1828-1893), a German immigrant who was a member of the 75th
Pennsylvania Volunteers Regiment in the American Civil War serving first
as a Captain and later promoted to Colonel before being discharged in 1862.
The notebook contains many superb illustrations mostly from the Schuylkill
Navigation System, the Union Canal, and a few from the Louisville-Portland Canal.
The drawings and notations reflect a career as a...
Dates:
1851-1886
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Professor Karl Ludwig Meissner Engineering Lectures
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0201
Abstract
This manuscript is a set of class notes presumed taken by a student (R. Nachwitz?) attending lectures by Professors Schneider and Karl Ludwig Meissner on Civil Engineering topics given at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig, Germany during 1849-50. Topics covered in technical mechanics included effect of friction, strength of materials, mechanics of gear teeth, analysis of fire hoses and nozzles, vibration in structures. The general topic of “Baukunst” (Art of Building/ Architecture)...
Dates:
1849 - 1850
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections