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Charles A. Vinscherer Civil Engineering Notebook

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0122
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1855 to 1881

Charles H. Hoffman documents, 1937-1940

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0170
Abstract

Collection of official documents such as freshman orientation schedule, degree transcript and form letter invitations to honors societies for Charles H. Hoffman from his undergraduate years at Lehigh studying electrical engineering, 1934-38, and graduate years at MIT, 1939-40.

Dates: 1934-1940

Charles R. Nippert Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS0239
Abstract

Materials on Bethlehem Steel (including ephemera, catalogs, technical reports and drawings), Lehigh University (brochures, reports, Alumni Association publications); publications on manufacturing of steel and steel products, Pennsylvania and Lehigh Valley municipal maps compiled by Charles R. Nippert, Lehigh Class of 1947, a mechanical engineer at Bethlehem Steel Corporation.

Dates: 1922 - 2007; Majority of material found within 1937 - 1976

Charles Willard Marsh Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0434
Abstract

Baseball and Bethlehem Steel Corporation related memorabilia of the second half of the twentieth century mostly corporate items and baseball related newspaper clippings complied by Charles Willard Marsh, Lehigh Class of 1960.

Dates: 1930 - 2022

Christmas Peace Pilgrimage - Nazareth to Bethlehem, PA. [In progress]

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0471
Abstract

Collection of assorted newspaper articles and correspondence relating to the Christmas Peace Pilgrimage from Nazareth, Pa. to Bethlehem, Pa. otherwise known as Christmas City USA. This pilgrimage is the world’s oldest annual witness to peace.

Dates: 1960 - 2024

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

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

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

Classical League of the Lehigh Valley

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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

Coal Miner’s Archive: John Nuttall and George W. McGaffey

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Identifier: SC MS 0392
Abstract

A fascinating collection of material about the coal industry in western Pennsylvania and West Virginia and the Nuttall family’s expansion of their bituminous coal empire in the mid Nineteenth Century. The Nuttall Family history is prominent today in connection with the New River Gorge National Park in West Virginia.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1817 - 1998

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Grace, Eugene G. (Eugene Gifford), 1876-1960 7
Lehigh University. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering 7
Sayre, Robert H. (Robert Heysham), 1824-1907 7
Schwab, Charles M., 1862-1939 7
Unknown 7
Beedle, Lynn S. 6
Bethlehem Steel Company 6
Fritz, John, 1822-1913 6
Lehigh University. Library 6
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company 6
Mack, James D. (James Decker), 1916- 6
Lamberton, Robert Alexander, 1824-1893 5
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company 5
Pennsylvania Railroad Company 5
Bach Choir of Bethlehem (Bethlehem, Pa.) 4
Doolittle, C. L. (Charles Leander), 1843-1919 4
Elkus, Jonathan 4
Eney, William J. 4
Fritz Engineering Laboratory 4
Johnston, Archibald, 1865-1948 4
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Trembley, Francis J., (1904-1978) 4
Wilbur, Warren A. 4
Balabkins, Nicholas, 1926-2023 3
Chandler, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1906 3
Cummings, Mary Hannah Packer, 1839-1912 3
Drown, Thomas M., (Thomas Messinger), 1842-1904 3
Eric Doolittle (1870-1920) Lehigh Class 1891 (CE) 3
General Electric Company 3
Gipson , Lawrence Henry, 1880-1971 3
Honeyman, Robert B. 3
Keim, Rollin Reuben 3
Lehigh University. Athletics 3
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Lehigh University. Department of Chemistry 3
Lehigh University. Development and Alumni Relations 3
Lehigh Valley Rail Road Company 3
Neville, Harvey A. (Harvey Alexander), 1898-1983 3
New York times 3
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company 3
Richards, Charles R. (Charles Russ Richards) 3
Schuylkill Navigation Company 3
Stevens, William Bacon, 1815-1887 3
Stout, Robert D 3
Taylor, Robert S. 3
Thomas Iron Company 3
United States. Department of the Army 3
Whitaker, Martin Dewey, 1902-1960 3
Wilbur, E. P. (Elisha Packer), 1833-1910 3
Wolle Family 3
ArtsQuest 2
Baldwin Locomotive Works 2
Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886 2
Bassler, Harvey, 1883-1950 2
Berman Family 2
Bieber, Irwin W., 1847-1909 2
Bird Family. 2
Blake, Robert William, 1864-1921 2
Bradford, William 2
Brodhead Family 2
Broun, Maurice, 1906-1979 2
Cady, Susan A. 2
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 2
Charles Russ Richards 2
Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 2
Delta Upsilon Fraternity 2
Douglas, Henry Bowman 2
Drown, Thomas Messinger 2
Dufour, Frank Oliver 2
Elkus Family 2
Emery, Natt M. (Natt Morrill), 1873-1935 2
Estes, William L. (William Lawrence), 1855-1940 2
Farmersville Church 2
Franklin, William S. (William Suddards), 1863-1930 2
Frazier, Benjamin West (1841-1905) 2
Fry, David 2
Gatewood, John 2
Grossart, Lewis John Henry 2
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961 2
Harvard University 2
Homer Research Laboratories 2
Hudson, Clarence Walter 2
Hughes, Percy, 1872- 2
Izenour, George C. 2
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