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Philip Schopp Sketchbook
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0157
Abstract
A manuscript notebook and sketchbook attributed to Philip (Phillip)
Schopp (1828-1893), a German immigrant who was a member of the 75th
Pennsylvania Volunteers Regiment in the American Civil War serving first
as a Captain and later promoted to Colonel before being discharged in 1862.
The notebook contains many superb illustrations mostly from the Schuylkill
Navigation System, the Union Canal, and a few from the Louisville-Portland Canal.
The drawings and notations reflect a career as a...
Dates:
1851-1886
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Photo Album of Bridges by G. W. Philips
Collection — Volume: PHOTO0018.01
Identifier: SC Photo-0018
Abstract
The album contains a collection of photographs of six Pennsylvania bridges and several railroad works possibly inspected by G. W. Philips in a period from 1900 to 1930. Perhaps the most well-known Pennsylvania bridge is the multi concrete arch Hyner Bridge over the Susquehanna River near Renovo, Pennsylvania. The Hell Gate Bridge over the East River in New York City is an anomaly among the construction photographs in the album as the only New York bridge. The album is an interesting...
Dates:
1900-1930; Majority of material found within 1900-1930
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Photo Album of Hill-to-Hill Bridge Construction
Collection
Identifier: SC Photo-0035
Abstract
Album contains small black and white photographs many of the siting and building of the Hill-to-Hill Bridge over the Lehigh River connecting the two Bethlehems in Pennsylvania. Also in the album are photographs of young men in graduation gowns, college dorm life and young people cavorting in outdoor activities.
Dates:
1921 - 1924
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Photograph Album of Goulds Manufacturing Company, Plant, New York, circa 1915
Collection
Identifier: SC Photo-0025
Abstract
Photograph album depicting Goulds Manufacturing Plant, Seneca Falls, New York which was world famous for its assortment of pumps.
Dates:
1908-1925
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Photograph Album of the De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. Kimberley, South Africa 1899-1905
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0230
Abstract
This collection of photographs records the careers of two Lehigh alumni in mining engineering and illustrate the diamond mining procedures in South Africa of the world’s most famous mining conglomerate – De Beers, from 1899 to 1905.
Dates:
1899-1905
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Photograph of Harlem Bridge over Harlem River at Fourth Avenue, New York, Circa 1867-1871
Item
Identifier: SC Photo-0021
Abstract
John Reid, the acknowledged photographer of this picture, was in his lifetime known as a pioneer photographer of the “Iron Horse” (steam locomotives). He introduced the convention of taking the photographs “from a position just ahead of the smoke box” in the late 1850s. This angle is apparent in this photograph as the 4-4-0 steam locomotive positioned on the Harlem Bridge. The bridge is an example of a Post box-truss type developed by Simeon S. Post in 1863. Based on information printed...
Dates:
Circa 1867-1871
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Photographs and blueprints of Washington State Highway Department: Bridges 1920 to 1931
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0291
Abstract
Photographs and blueprints of highway bridges built in the 1920s as part of the State of Washington’s Public Works Department post World War I building program. Also some photographs of bridges built in California, apparently designed by Charles Andrew who was bridge engineer for California State Highway Department as well as Washington State Highway Department and Oregon.
Dates:
1920-01-01 - 1931-12-31
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Photographs of Construction of Bronx Public Works
Collection
Identifier: SC Photo-0005
Abstract
The Borough of the Bronx of the City of New York is bound on the south and southwest by the Harlem River, on the west by the Hudson River, on the north by Westchester County and the east by the most westerly reaches of the Long Island Sound and on the south by the East River. In 1898 the Bronx, formerly a part of Westchester County, was incorporated into the City of New York. It is the only New York City borough on the mainland. In 1848, a physical connection was made between the island...
Dates:
1893-1935
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Photographs of Railroads and Trains by Homer R. Hill
Collection
Identifier: SC MS0083
Scope and Contents
A selection of train photographs taken by and donated by Homer R. Hill, of Bernardsville, NJ. The photos were taken through the years by Mr. Hill as he traveled to various areas of the country. All pictures are black and white, most are glossy finish and identified by a label glued on back of photo.. There are 54 photographs measuring 28 x 35.5 cm and three measuring 20 x 25.5 cm.; three business cards (5 x 9 cm), and 108 postcards (9 x 14 cm) unless otherwise noted. Some of the...
Dates:
1900 - 1997
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Photographs of St. Luke’s Hospital Nursing School Photographs, 1884-1886
Item
Identifier: SC Photo-0032
Abstract
Four sepia photographs of the first class of student nurses in St. Luke’s Hospital Training School for Nurses, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Dr. William Estes, director of the hospital, appointed Miss M. J. Merritt from Bellevue Hospital in New York City as the first principal of St. Luke’s Hospital Training School for Nurses. This school for nurses was the fourth school established in the United States. Bellevue was the first such school. In the 1870s St. Luke’s Hospital was the only...
Dates:
1884-1889; Majority of material found within 1885-1886
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections