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Family genealogy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Carter, Lewis, and Battersby Family Letters [In progress]

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0462
Abstract The collection is made up of letters and family mementos from the Carter, Lewis, and Battersby families. The three families lived in New York around Staten Island, Greenwich, and New York City, and in New Jersey. The Batterbies are an extended family of the Carters, and they are connected to the Lewis’s through the marriage of Robert Lewis and Carol Carter. The Carter family letters are primarily written to Leon and Eugenia Phelps Carter between the 1910’s and 1940’s. The Carter family...
Dates: 1872 - 1949
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Doolittle Family Bible, 1868

 Item
Identifier: MS 0196
Abstract

The Bible was originally acquired by a Lehigh University professor, Charles Leander Doolittle and his first wife, as a family Christmas gift. Professor Doolittle recorded family events in this book: marriages, births and deaths.The Bible contains interleaved ephemera and slips documenting important dates for the family. It also contains a draft an early poem written by Charles’ daughter, the novelist and poet, Hilda Doolittle (also known as HD).

Dates: 1868
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Lester R. Bittel, Papers Relating to Writing and Publishing

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0023
Abstract Manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, etc. relating to Bittel's publications, chiefly 1979-present. Also includes material relating to National Survey of Supervisory Management Practices, evaluative reviews prepared by Bittel from 1954-1988 for McGraw-Hill, copies of journal articles, copies of speeches, royalty statements, and a small amount of personal material. Other names associated with the collection (some as co-authors) include Muriel Albers Bittel, Ronald S. Burke, Joseph...
Dates: 1954-present; Majority of material found in 1954-1988, 1979-present
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Wilbur Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0250-A.C.20
Abstract

The collection exhibits a great interest in genealogy and family history, especially the interconnection of the Wilbur Family with the Packer Family and several other families of South Bethlehem (Pa.) such as Sayre, Brodhead, Linderman, as well as Erwin, Mather Families.

Dates: 1840 - 1951
Found in: South Bethlehem Historical Society