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Carter, Lewis, and Battersby Family Letters [In progress]
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0462
Abstract
The collection is made up of letters and family mementos from the Carter, Lewis, and Battersby families. The three families lived in New York around Staten Island, Greenwich, and New York City, and in New Jersey. The Batterbies are an extended family of the Carters, and they are connected to the Lewis’s through the marriage of Robert Lewis and Carol Carter. The Carter family letters are primarily written to Leon and Eugenia Phelps Carter between the 1910’s and 1940’s. The Carter family...
Dates:
1872 - 1949
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Cramer Family Bible and Postcards
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0207
Abstract
A curious collection of ephemera representative of Victorian era interests in collecting postcards and Bible studies. The Cramer Family lived in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania at the end of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
Dates:
1892 to 1908
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Jacob Mark Frey Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0068
Abstract
Collection of correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings gathered by J. Mark Frey, related to Lehigh University, Lehigh YMCA, Chinese students, Bethlehem Bach Choir and Bethlehem Steel Corporation. Frey was the secretary of Lehigh YMCA and involved with Americanization and naturalization classes for Bethlehem Steel’s immigrant workers and an enthusiast of the Bethlehem Bach Choir. The collection provides a valuable picture of one employee’s life at Lehigh University in the...
Dates:
1916-1942; Majority of material found in 1919
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections