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Ben Ettelman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0409
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Dates: 1918 - 1997

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

Brodhead Real Estate and Other Lehigh University Property Files

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0359
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Dates: 2000-2016; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1961

Carl H. Bechhoefer, Class of 1910, Lehigh memorabilia

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Identifier: SC MS 0382
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Class and Reunion memorabilia, and civil engineering service photographs and a notebook (law study and research notes) of Carl Haydn Bechhoefer, Lehigh Class of 1910. Donated by grandnephew, Eric Young.

Dates: 1910 - 1940

Charles A. Vinscherer Civil Engineering Notebook

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0122
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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 Surveying Notes, 1880-1898

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0121
Abstract

A historical description of Lehigh University’s campus and its relationship to Bethlehem through surveying notes made by the civil engineering students from Sophomore Classes in the 1880s as recorded in this field notebook. The Surveying classes were under the instruction of Professor Charles L. Doolittle, father of poetess Hilda Doolittle. Some of the student notations were made by H. H. McClintic and C. D. Marshall, who would later form the company that built the Panama Canal gates.

Dates: 1880-1898

David E. Guise Collection on Bridges

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Identifier: SC MS 0345
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Dates: 1880-2000

Engineering Drawing Plates, Lehigh University Course No. CE 1

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS0446
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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

Engineering Field Books 1893-1910

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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

Frederick Rohatyn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0461
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Dates: 1935 - 2003

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Lehigh University Special Collections 19
Lehigh University Grant Projects 2
 
Subject
Notebooks 15
Civil engineers 14
Civil engineers. 7
###OPTIONAL – Geographical terms, local Lehigh building names, etc. 6
Notebooks. 6
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Photographs 5
Bridges 4
Civil engineering 4
Blueprints 3
Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 2
Correspondence 2
Erie Canal (N.Y.) 2
Jersey City (N.J.) 2
Lehigh River (Pa.) 2
Lehigh University 2
Panama Canal (Panama) 2
Reinforced concrete 2
South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 2
Students 2
Union Canal (Pa.) 2
Albany (N.Y.) 1
Alvsborg Bridge (Gothenburg, Sweden) 1
Ambassador International Bridge (Detroit, Michigan) 1
Angus L. Macdonald Bridge (Halifax - Dartmouth) 1
Arch Dams -- testing 1
Art -- Collectors and collecting 1
Art, Israeli 1
Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 1
Auburn, New York 1
Audiotapes 1
Belmont Tunnel New York City 1
Bench marks—Pennsylvania—Allentown. 1
Bench marks—Pennsylvania—Lehigh River. 1
Bench marks—Pennsylvania—South Bethlehem. 1
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 1
Bidwell Bar Bridge (Oroville, California) 1
Binghamton, New York 1
Blaw-Knox Pipe Line Bridge (Charleston, Tennessee) 1
Booksellers 1
Boulder Dam Bridge (AZ) [Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge] 1
Bridge builders - Nineteenth century 1
Bridge engineering 1
Bridges - Railway arch truss 1
Bridges - Whipple truss 1
Bridges - iron - Nineteenth century 1
Bridges -- Peru -- Nineteenth century 1
Bronx-Whitestone 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
Calypso Island – Lehigh River 1
Canals 1
Canals -- Panama 1
Cantilever bridges 1
Cayuga County, New York 1
Cement -- testing 1
Chains 1
Charity organization 1
Chenango Canal, New York 1
Chesapeake Bay Bridge (Maryland) 1
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.) 1
Chester Bridge (Chester, Illinois) 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
Chicago Drainage Canal 1
Christian Bleich House 1
Civil engineering--Study and teaching 1
Class reunions 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
Cuzco (Peru) 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
Dodge Street (Lincoln Highway) Bridge (Omaha, NE) 1
Drawings (visual works) 1
Eads Bridge (Saint Louis, Mo.) 1
East Boston Bridge 1
East Fredericktown Vesta Coal Preparation Plant 1
East Penn Junction 1
East River, New York 1
Elwha River 1
Engineering 1
Englewood, New Jersey 1
Environmental Engineering 1
Everett Marysville Bridges 1
Felix Dam, Schuylkill River, Berks County, Pennsylvania 1
Ferndale Bridge 1
Field notes 1
Flatbush Avenue Terminal 1
Florianopolis Bridge (Hercilio Luz Bridge, Brazil) 1
Forth Road Bridge (Scotland) 1
Frames 1
Fremont Bridge (Seattle, Wash.) 1
Friction 1
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Language
English 20
es 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
 
Names
Merriman, Mansfield, 1848-1925 3
Bradford, William 2
Walker, Richard Washington 2
Wells, James Hollis (Class of 1885) 2
Auchmuty, Harrison Link 1
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Batcheler, Bowen & Wolverton 1
Bates, Edmund A 1
Beatty, William Donaldson 1
Bechhoefer, Carl H. (Carl Haydn), 1883-1946 1
Berg, Walter G. 1
Berman Family 1
Bermudes, Francisco Alberto 1
Bethlehem Steel Company 1
Beverson, William Lowrey 1
Bonnot, Alexander 1
Bonzano, Hubert Alexander 1
Bowman, William James Jarrand 1
Breinig, Richard Singmaster 1
Brown, John Henry 1
Bruegel, Adolph Theodore 1
Bryan, Kennerly 1
Butler, Charles Noble 1
Byers, Morton Lewis 1
Campo, Gabriel Moreno, 1849-1905 1
Coast and Geodetic Survey 1
Connard, George Philip 1
Cornelius, Justice Cox 1
Cunningham, Benjamin Amos 1
Dallman, Martin 1
Dalrymple, Francis Wharton 1
Daniels, Reuben 1
Davis, George Herschel 1
Davis, William Schaff 1
DeWitt, Philip Hoffecker 1
Domenech, Manuel Victor 1
Doolittle, C. L. (Charles Leander), 1843-1919 1
Douglas, Henry Bowman 1
Drinker, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1850-1937 1
Dufour, Frank Oliver 1
East Penn Railroad 1
Edson, William Noble 1
Engelbert, John Roberts 1
Ettelman, Ben 1
Fink, Frederick William 1
Focht, Charles Wesley 1
Foote, William Banks 1
Frescoln, Samuel Wilson 1
Freyhold, Felix 1
Fritz Engineering Laboratory 1
Gates, William 1
Goodnow, William Theodore 1
Goodwin, H. Stanley 1
Gotwald, Robert Caldwell 1
Grossart, Lewis John Henry 1
Harper, Harry Tallman 1
Harwi, Solomon Jacob 1
Hazleton, Simeon Cole 1
Heikes, Irving Andrew 1
Hillegass, Harry Hurd 1
Hittell, John Benjamin 1
Hofford, Edwin Franklin 1
Hood, George Gowen 1
Hopkins, Charles Comstock 1
Hudson and Manhattan Railroad 1
Jacobs & Davies 1
James Hollis Wells (Civil Engineering Class of 1885) 1
Jardine, John Andrew 1
Jencks, Sterry Henry 1
Junken, Charles Alexander 1
Kerr, David Garrett 1
Kittrell, James Wesson 1
Langston, Frederick Bowman Jr. 1
Langston, William 1
Lehigh University 1
Lehigh University – Buildings. 1
Lehigh University – Campus 1
Lehigh University – History 1
Lehigh University. Class of 1885. 1
Lehigh University. Department of Civil Engineering 1
Lehigh University. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering 1
Lehigh University—History. 1
Lehigh University—Surveys. 1
Lohse, Charles William 1
Louisville and Portland Canal Company 1
Lydon, William Anthony 1
M. Deveraux & Son, Charleston, West Virginia 1
Mack, James Struthers 1
Marshall, Charles Donnell 1
McClintic, Howard Hale 1
Meily, Harry Smuller 1
Merkle, Joseph Franklin 1
Merriman, Thaddeus, (1876-1939) 1
Miller, Charles Henry 1
Miller, George Philips 1
Millholland, Paul Douglass 1
Morrow, James Alexander 1
Mott, Daniel Livermore 1
Muhlenberg, Edward Duchman, 1831-1883 1
Myers, Harry Krider 1
North Penn Railroad 1
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