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Bethlehem Housing Authority records
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0334
Overview
In an effort to boost local economy and employment in the building trades, the Bethlehem Housing Authority directors embarked on large scale public housing projects. Monies provided by the federal government to the states and ultimately to the local communities were applied to several housing projects: Temporary War Housing Project 1943 to accommodate the large influx of workers for Bethlehem Steel's wartime effort which became known as the Pembroke Housing; the Robert Pfeifle Houses, 1961-1963...
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Lehigh University Special Collections
Birkinbine Engineering Company Records, Collection I
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0084.1
Overview
This collection includes books, bound pamphlets and offprints, maps and drawings, letter books, ore samples, photographs, and manuscript material regarding the Birkinbine Engineering Company.
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Lehigh University Special Collections
Blair Birdsall Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0175
Overview
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.
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Lehigh University Grant Projects
Caspar Wistar Haines, Lehigh 1874 Manuscript of “Curvas de Ferro Carril”
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0016
Overview
The manuscript, in Spanish, of a small book entitled “Curvas de Ferro Carril” (“Railroad Curves”) written by Mr. Haines between 1883 and 1899 while he was working in Mexico. The book was never published. Included is some correspondence from Mr. H. H. Filley about the tables to be used in the book.
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Lehigh University Special Collections
Charles A. Vinscherer Civil Engineering Notebook
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0122
Overview
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.
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Civil Engineering Surveying Notes, 1880-1898
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0121
Overview
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.
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Civil Engineering Works Photograph Collection
Item
Identifier: SC Photo-0020
Overview
The collection of photographs illustrate various types of civil engineering works including the Whipple through truss railroad bridge, Pennsylvania through truss bridge, suspension bridges, cantilever bridges, reinforced concrete arch bridges and buttress dams. Among the bridge photographs are included the Brooklyn Bridge, the Firth of Forth Bridge, the Tay Bridge and Niagara Falls “Honeymoon” Bridge collapses, the Pecos River railroad trestle bridge and the “Luten Design” reinforced concrete...
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Construction Photographs of Bridge Over 9th Street in Chester, Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: SC Photo-0002
Overview
28 black & white photographs documenting the destruction of the old one and construction of the new bridge over 9th Street in Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1925 to 1926.
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Lehigh University Special Collections
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Records
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0263
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Lehigh University Grant Projects
David E. Guise Collection on Bridges
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0345
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