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University Park

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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

Pearce Atkinson, Class of 1889 Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS0422
Scope and Contents

The collection of newspaper articles, Lehigh student memorabilia, invitations, athletics programs and correspondence is recorded in a scrapbook measuring 30 x 24.5 x 6 cm, 99 pages very poor condition measuring 30.5 x 25 x 4 cm marbled paper over board with dark brown pebbled buckram spine and corners - exterior looks good but interior pages all separated from the spine and the paper pages chipping and crumbling.

Dates: 1885 - 1896; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1889