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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

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

Harvey Bassler Papers, 1900-1968

 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

Willis Appleford Slater Papers, 1910-1937

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0100
Dates: Inclusive Dates

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Alvsborg Bridge (Gothenburg, Sweden) 1
Ambassador International Bridge (Detroit, Michigan) 1
Angus L. Macdonald Bridge (Halifax - Dartmouth) 1
Arch Dams -- testing 1
Bidwell Bar Bridge (Oroville, California) 1
Blaw-Knox Pipe Line Bridge (Charleston, Tennessee) 1
Botany 1
Boulder Dam Bridge (AZ) [Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge] 1
Bridges 1
Bronx-Whitestone Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel (NY) [Hugh L. Carey Tunnel] 1
Bucksport Suspension Bridge (Bucksport, Maine) [Waldo-Hancock Bridge?] 1
Buffalo (N.Y.) 1
Cantilever bridges 1
Cement -- testing 1
Chains 1
Chesapeake Bay Bridge (Maryland) 1
Chester Bridge (Chester, Illinois) 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
Columns 1
Composite materials -- Testing 1
Concrete 1
Concrete slabs -- Design and Construction 1
Concrete slabs -- testing 1
Covington-Cincinnati Bridge (Cincinnati, Ohio) [John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge] 1
Daule River Bridge (Guayaquil, Ecuador) [National Unity Bridge] 1
Deer Isle Bridge (Me.) 1
Delaware Memorial Bridge (New Castle, Delaware) 1
Delaware River Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Detroit (Mich.) 1
Diaries 1
Dodge Street (Lincoln Highway) Bridge (Omaha, NE) 1
Drawings (visual works) 1
East Boston Bridge 1
East Fredericktown Vesta Coal Preparation Plant 1
Florianopolis Bridge (Hercilio Luz Bridge, Brazil) 1
Forth Road Bridge (Scotland) 1
Frames 1
Fremont Bridge (Seattle, Wash.) 1
Friction 1
Garden State Parkway (New Jersey) 1
Geologists 1
Geology 1
George Washington Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
Glen Canyon Dam (Ariz.) 1
Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
Grand Mère Suspension Bridge (Quebec, Canada) 1
Harrisburg (Pa.) 1
Hartford Bridge. 1
Henry Hudson Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
Hutsonville Bridge (Hutsonville, Illinois) 1
Iquitos (Peru) 1
Jersey City (N.J.) 1
Karnali Bridge (Nepal) 1
Lehigh University 1
Letters (correspondence) 1
Mackinac Bridge (Mich.) 1
Magazines (periodicals) 1
Maldonado Bridge (Uruguay) 1
Manuscripts (documents) 1
Maps (documents) 1
Martin-Pena Canal (Puerto Rico) 1
Materials--Testing 1
Mining engineers 1
Mount Hope Bridge (Bristol, Rhode Island) 1
Muncy (Pa.) 1
New York (N.Y.) 1
New York State Thruway (New York) 1
Niagara River Bridge 1
North Tonawanda (New York) 1
Ore deposits 1
Panama Bridge (Panama) [Centennial Bridge?] 1
Park Avenue Viaduct (New York, N.Y.) 1
Peru 1
Peru -- Description and travel 1
Petroleum -- Geology 1
Plates (Engineering) 1
Railroad bridges 1
Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct/Bridge (Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania) 1
Sciotoville Railroad Bridge (Sciotoville, Ohio) 1
Severn Bridge (England : Railroad bridge) 1
St. John’s Bridge (Portland, Oregon) 1
St. Louis (Mo.) 1
Stability 1
Steel 1
Stevenson Creek Dam, Santa Clara County, California 1
Storebaelt Bridge (Denmark) 1
Stresses and strains 1
Structural design 1
Suspension bridges 1
Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Tacoma, Wash. : 1940) 1
Telegrams 1
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Bassler, Harvey, 1883-1950 1
Fritz Engineering Laboratory 1
Lehigh University. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering 1
Lehigh University. Library 1
Standard Oil Company 1