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

 Collection
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

Collection of Bridge Postcards

 Item
Identifier: SC Photo 0026
Dates: 1910-1970

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

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

Colonial Iron Manufacture Ledger 1770-1773

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0312
Scope and Contents The ledger book entries begin May 17, 1770 ending August 3, 1773, however, inside the front and back covers are the childish notations of Mary Bird (1753-1813), daughter of William Bird (1706-1761), builder of the Berkshire Furnace, indicating dates of January 7, 1767 and February 1767 among her efforts at practicing cursive handwriting. Mary Bird was the ninth child of William and Brigitte Huling (1710/5?-1790/92?) Bird. Mary married Colonel George Ross Jr. (b.?-d.1779) in 1773 in Christ...
Dates: 1767 - 1773; Majority of material found within 1770 - 1772

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

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

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

Construction Photographs of Bridge Over 9th Street in Chester, Pennsylvania

 Collection
Identifier: SC Photo-0002
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1925-1926

Cooperative Lecture Series, 1955-1963

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0162
Abstract The Cooperative Lecture Series was organized by a consortium of faculty and student organizations on Campus to answer the need for stimulation of the intellectual life of the University. The occasion to bring to Lehigh a speaker whose subject would be appropriate to the interest of sponsoring groups would be supported by wider publicity, increased attendance and greater financial resources. To aid this effort for cooperation, the deans and department heads, officers of student and faculty...
Dates: 1955-1963; Majority of material found within 1955-1963

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