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Civil Engineering Surveying Notes, 1880-1898
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0121
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1880-1898
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Civil Engineering Works Photograph Collection
Item
Identifier: SC Photo-0020
Abstract
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...
Dates:
1879-1984; Majority of material found within 1879-1984
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Civil War Letters and Memorabilia Collected by John Henry Stuckey
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0371
Abstract
Collection of United States Civil War letters primarily between the families of Joseph D. Richardson (Beverly, NJ), Lloyd Girton and Francis Rupert (Bloomsburg, PA) including responding letters and one additional letter from a Confederate soldier William T. Bickham (Franklintown, LA). Also included are patriotic iconography envelopes - some with or without stamps and related references used by the Civil War enthusiast who assembled the letters and related reference material.
Dates:
1861 - 1973; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1864
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Classical League of the Lehigh Valley
File
Identifier: SC MS 0326
Abstract
This collection contains documents and the meeting minute book of the “Classical league of the Lehigh Valley”, established in May 1922, by the teachers, instructor and professors of Greek and Latin of Allentown, Easton and Bethlehem, including colleges and high schools. Records seemed to be compiled by Mary L. Hess, secretary and treasurer. The documents are included is the list of members, expenses and some printed invitations, programs, etc. about regional meetings and “Bimillennial...
Dates:
1922-1957; Majority of material found within
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Collection of Bridge Postcards
Item
Identifier: SC Photo 0026
Dates:
1910-1970
Found in:
Lehigh University Grant Projects
Collection of Maps by Johann George and Johann Christian Schreiber, circa 1740-1750
Collection — Box: 912 S378a 1740.01, Item: 01-35
Identifier: 912 S378a 1740
Scope and Contents
The Lehigh collection is composed of 35 individual antique maps of different sizes. Twenty-seven maps indicate that they were manufactured by Johann Georg Schreiber, three maps indicate their manufacture was supervised by his widow and five maps are attributed to Johann Christ. Schreiber. The paper is heavy laid paper. The maps have never been bound. The maps measure approximately 17 x 26.5 cm and the overall sheets measures 24 x 32 cm. The image is produced by copperplate engraving. Each...
Dates:
1710-1816
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Collection of Wheel Charts, Wheel Calculators and other Circular Ephemera
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0378
Abstract
Small collection of two-dimensional interactivity of complex information packaged in an informational design requiring hand - eye coordination of using a wheel chart. Perhaps the best example is the lumber scale to determine the necessary lumber required to build a specifically determined structure or the necessary cement required to make a cubic yard of concrete.
Dates:
1920 - 2005
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Congressman Francis E. Walter Guest Book
Item
Identifier: SC MS 0349
Abstract
Guest book kept in the Congressman Francis E. Walter's office at the Capitol Hill includes autographs of wide range of guests and visitors cultural and political figures such as President Kennedy, Pearl S. Buck, Olivia DeHaviland, James Michener, Alexandra Tolstoy. Handmade book is gold colored silk Chinese accordion styled pages of thick board with ivory peg fasteners for front cover with three Chinese characters on paper label.
Dates:
1955-1959
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Construction of Coxe Laboratory, 1908-1919
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0034
Abstract
General correspondence, plans, blueprints, invoices and correspondence regarding insurance for Coxe Mining Laboratory.
Dates:
1908-1919
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Construction of Packard Laboratory
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0033
Scope and Contents
Material includes vouchers, bank statements, a check book, and work sheets for bonds, for the building of the Packard Laboratory in 1929 1932.
Dates:
1929-1932
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
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