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Lehigh Valley Railroad Documents

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0159
Abstract

Reflected in this collection is the bureaucracy of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company from a train conductor’s view. The collection contains bulletins, supplements to bulletins, correspondence about operation of trains, train fares, schedules of train stations, time tables, conductor’s documentation of passengers’ destinations, tickets issued and material especially about the Black Diamond Express – the LVRR’s most famous train.

Dates: 1870-1981; Majority of material found within 1909-1915

Muster Roll of the German Regiment in Service of the United States

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0167
Abstract A unique record of soldiers of German origin who served the “United States” in the Continental Army under the command of Lt. Col. Ludwig Weltner from Frederick, Maryland as opposed to the German troops who served in the British Army. In May 1776 the Second Continental Congress established the Eighth Maryland Regiment, more popularly known as the German Regiment or German Battalion as an infantry unit. The Regiment was formed of eight companies: four from Maryland and four from Pennsylvania...
Dates: 1778-06 - 1780-12

Philadelphia Surveyor John H. Levering Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0173
Abstract This folio itemizes an interesting view into the northwestward expansion of the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in an era of growth in the mid-19th century. What is shown by the surveying entries is the incorporation, by the 1854 Act of Consolidation, of Roxborough Township and the Borough of Manayunk into the City of Philadelphia’s 21st Ward. A list of landowners requiring surveying services reflects on Lehigh University’s collection of 18th and 19th century industrial collections with...
Dates: 1873 - 1888

Richard H. Tucker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0041
Abstract

This collection includes documents from Richard H. Tucker’s days as both a student and a professor at Lehigh University, such as correspondences, newspaper clippings, scrapbook, diplomas, certificates and photographs.

Dates: 1875-1894

Wetherill Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0163
Abstract

This collection contains documents reflecting a time frame from mid 18th century to mid 19th century. The Wetherill family was a Philadelphia Quaker family prominent in manufacture and civic leadership. The documents specifically indicate a family interest in the Philadelphia Water Works, the Schuylkill Navigation Company and promoting the establishment of the Schuylkill Canal.

Dates: Mid 18th century to the mid 19th century

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Lehigh University Special Collections 13
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Subject
Philadelphia (Pa.) 9
Bethlehem (Pa.) 4
New York (N.Y.) 4
Notebooks 4
Civil engineering 3
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Clippings (information artifacts) 3
Mauch Chunk (Pa.) 3
Civil engineers 2
Correspondence 2
Delaware River Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
Philadelphia (Pa.) – Social life and customs. 2
Photographs 2
Scrapbooks 2
Suspension bridges 2
Trenton (N.J.) 2
Valley Forge (Pa.) 2
Albums 1
Allentown (Pa.) 1
Alvsborg Bridge (Gothenburg, Sweden) 1
Ambassador International Bridge (Detroit, Michigan) 1
Anchorage 1
Angus L. Macdonald Bridge (Halifax - Dartmouth) 1
Architects. 1
Armed forces -- Officers 1
Astronomy 1
Atlanta (Ga.) 1
Baltimore, Maryland 1
Bangkok 1
Bangladesh 1
Benjamin Franklin Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Bidwell Bar Bridge (Oroville, California) 1
Blaw-Knox Pipe Line Bridge (Charleston, Tennessee) 1
Blueprints 1
Bogota 1
Bombay 1
Boston 1
Boston, Massachusetts 1
Boulder Dam Bridge (AZ) [Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge] 1
Bridges 1
Bridges -- Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) 1
Bridges -- Design and construction 1
Bridges -- New Jersey -- Camden 1
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 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
Brunei 1
Brussells 1
Bucksport Suspension Bridge (Bucksport, Maine) [Waldo-Hancock Bridge?] 1
Budapest 1
Buffalo (N.Y.) 1
Bulgaria 1
Cairo 1
Caissons 1
Camrbridge 1
Canals -- Pennsylvania 1
Cantilever bridges 1
Canton (China) 1
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Cerificates 1
Chains 1
Chesapeake Bay Bridge (Maryland) 1
Chester Bridge (Chester, Illinois) 1
Chicago 1
City planning 1
College students 1
Color photographs. 1
Color slides. 1
Columns 1
Commonplace book 1
Composite materials -- Testing 1
Concord, Massachusetts 1
Concrete 1
Correspondences 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 (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) 1
Denver 1
Detroit 1
Diaries 1
Dodge Street (Lincoln Highway) Bridge (Omaha, NE) 1
Dubai 1
East Boston Bridge 1
East Fredericktown Vesta Coal Preparation Plant 1
Engravings 1
Estates (Law) 1
Florianopolis Bridge (Hercilio Luz Bridge, Brazil) 1
Folio (book format) 1
Forth Road Bridge (Scotland) 1
Frames 1
Fremont Bridge (Seattle, Wash.) 1
Friction 1
Garden State Parkway (New Jersey) 1
Geneva 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
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Language
German 1
 
Names
Packer, Asa, 1805-1879 3
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company 2
Allan, John, 1779-1834 1
American Cable Company, Inc. 1
American Electrochemical Society 1
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American Locomotive Company 1
Baldwin Locomotive Works 1
Barber, Laird H. 1
Beedle, Lynn S. 1
Bethlehem Steel Company 1
Bispham, George Tucker, 1838-1906 1
Black Diamond Express 1
Bowman's Creek Land & Lumbering Company 1
Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh Railway Company 1
Butler, Zebulon, 1731-1795 1
Cayuta Manufacturing Company 1
Centre Square Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Chateaugay Ore & Iron Company 1
Cummings, Chas. H. 1
Cummings, Mary Hannah Packer, 1839-1912 1
Delaware Bridge Joint Commission of the States of Pennsylvania and New Jersey 1
Dickson, Beitler & McCouch Law Offices 1
Doolittle, C. L. (Charles Leander), 1843-1919 1
Drinker, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1850-1937 1
E. P. Wilbur Bank & Trust Company 1
E.P. Wilbur Trust Company 1
Eaton & Glover Company 1
Ellwanger, Frank E. 1
Ellwanger, Frank E. (b. 1875) 1
Fritz Engineering Laboratory 1
Girard Trust Company 1
Graff 1
Graff, Catherine , 1780?-1865? 1
Graff, George, 1747-1835 1
Gummere, R. Morris 1
Haussegger, Nicholas, 1729-1786 1
Johannot, Antoine, 1803-1852 1
John H. Levering (1831 – c.1897) 1
Keystone State Construction Company 1
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834 1
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de—Journeys—United States 1
Lamberton, Robert Alexander, 1824-1893 1
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820 1
Lehigh University 1
Lehigh University – History 1
Lehigh University. Buildings 1
Lehigh University. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering 1
Lehigh Valley Transit Company 1
Levering, John H. 1
Linderman Skeer Company 1
Livingston 1
Livingston, Henry Walter, 1768-1810 1
Livingston, Walter C., 1799-1872 1
London Mine Company 1
Martin, Edward, 1879-1967 1
Moreau, John Bostwick (1812-1886) 1
National Car Wheel Company 1
New York Shipbuilding Corporation 1
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company 1
Packard, James Ward, 1863-1928 1
Packer Family 1
Packer Memorial Church 1
Packer, Harry E., 1850-1884 1
Pennsylvania Railroad Company 1
Pense, Muriel, Mrs., 1935- 1
People’s Telephone & Telegraph Company 1
Philadelphia (Pa.). Water Department 1
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 1
Richards, Joseph W. 1
Rochester Coal Company 1
Rooney, John J. 1
Roosevelt, Nicholas, J., 1767-1854 1
Samuel Wetherill Family 1
Sayre Land Company 1
Sayre Stamping Company 1
Sayre Water Company 1
Schuylkill Navigation Company 1
Taylor, Alexander Clark, 1825-1858 1
Tucker, R. H. (Richard Hawley), 1859-1952 1
Union Bank and Trust Company of Bethlehem, Pa. 1
United States. Continental Congress 1
United States. Department of the Navy 1
Weltner Family 1
Wetherill, Joseph, b. 1747/8 1
Wetherill, Samuel, 1736 -1816 1
Wetherill, Samuel, Jr., 1752 1
Wilbur, E. P. (Elisha Packer), 1833-1910 1
Wonfor, George A. 1
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