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Classical League of the Lehigh Valley
Coal Miner’s Archive: John Nuttall and George W. McGaffey
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.
Collection of Bridge Postcards
Collection of Maps by Johann George and Johann Christian Schreiber, circa 1740-1750
Collection of Wheel Charts, Wheel Calculators and other Circular Ephemera
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.
Colonial Iron Manufacture Ledger 1770-1773
Congressman Francis E. Walter Guest Book
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.
Construction of Coxe Laboratory, 1908-1919
General correspondence, plans, blueprints, invoices and correspondence regarding insurance for Coxe Mining Laboratory.
Construction of Packard Laboratory
Material includes vouchers, bank statements, a check book, and work sheets for bonds, for the building of the Packard Laboratory in 1929 1932.
Construction Photographs of Bridge Over 9th Street in Chester, Pennsylvania
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.