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Automobile Road Maps of Europe and North America

Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0356

Overview Collection composed primarily of Alphonse Taride maps for regions of France circa 1920s and a few other vintage maps: Brentano's British Isles, Rand McNally's New England: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Canadian Maritime Provinces and Germany's Schwartzwald region. The maps reflect the era of the establishment of the automobile as a cultural symbol of freedom of the road and travel between the two World Wars.

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Barron D. Berger Geology 6 Notebook

Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0192

Overview Geology class notebook of Barron D. Berger contains geological observations about local Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania sites perhaps no longer visibly apparent. These observations and notes were probably used in Geology 6 which he took in 1935-1936 academic year.

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Beecher Newspaper Caricatures Published During the Beecher Trial/Portraits of the Beechers

Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0202

Overview A selective collection of newspaper caricatures, cartoons, sketches and portraits of the Beecher family especially related to the scandalous adultery trial in 1875 involving the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher and Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton. Beecher was the younger brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” The entire Beecher family was involved in the abolition cause. The collection contained in this bound volume is an interesting insight into the public opinion of the era...

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Benjamin Franklin Fackenthal chemical analysis notebook

Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0188

Overview An interesting collection of early twentieth century analyses of ores collected by Benjamin Franklin Fackenthal, Jr., a prominent chemist of the era. Fackenthal established laboratories at the Durham Iron Works in Riegelsville, Pa and also in Lancaster, Pa. where mineral analysis was made of iron ores and limestone from samples sent by clients. What is especially interesting about the notebook is the listing of many iron ore and limestone quarries located in the Lehigh Valley area. Among the...

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Benjamin Leroy Miller Papers, 1894-1944

Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0013

Overview The collection includes correspondence to (and carbons of replies from) Prof. Miller, and also includes mounted newspaper clippings, diaries and photographs of his South American trip in 1915 and diaries of his trip around the world in 1937, plus his daily personal diaries from 1891 to 1913 and from 1929 until his death in 1944.

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Benjamin Lightfoot Survey Notebook

Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0203

Overview This manuscript notebook includes survey data of a road to be built between Pottsville to Shamokin (then an Indian Territory) in 18th century. It also contains detailed information on surveyor’s measurements and coordinates; descriptions of the terrain, and insight into frontier Pennsylvania and the interaction between the English settlers, militias and the native people on the Schuylkill and Susquehanna rivers of colonial Pennsylvania.

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Beta Chi House Photograph Album, Circa 1950s

Collection

Identifier: SC Photo-0017

Overview The collection of photographs is a nostalgic look at fraternity life in the 1950s. Possibly it was composed and presented on the occasion of the retirement of the gentleman to whom the album is dedicated – Willie Johnson. Mr. Johnson was an African American who lived on the premises of the Beta House at least until the mid 1960s employed as general factotum.

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

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...

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Bethlehem (Pa.) Coal Companies Records

Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0069

Overview This collection contains by-laws, minutes of meetings, indexes, and reports of several local coal companies, and corporations, with the same officers serving jointly in many of them.

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Bethlehem Steel Company Documents, 1905-1945

Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0181

Overview This collection reflects steel making practice at the turn of the twentieth century particularly the reuse of by-products of steel manufacture. It appears that the European steel manufacture was interested in economical reuse of the by-products. Bethlehem Steel Company recognized the potential of the European manufacturing practice and sent engineers to Europe to observe these practices. Also included in this collection are descriptions of Pennsylvania steel mills at the turn of the...

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

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Automobile Road Maps of Europe and North America

Barron D. Berger Geology 6 Notebook

Beecher Newspaper Caricatures Published During the Beecher Trial/Portraits of the Beechers

Benjamin Franklin Fackenthal chemical analysis notebook

Benjamin Leroy Miller Papers, 1894-1944

Benjamin Lightfoot Survey Notebook

Beta Chi House Photograph Album, Circa 1950s

Bethlehem Housing Authority records

Bethlehem (Pa.) Coal Companies Records

Bethlehem Steel Company Documents, 1905-1945

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