Bridges
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Allison Bayles '25 Notebook
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 20220816-02
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
American Span, Thousand Islands International Bridge, Thousand Islands, N.Y., 1945?
Item — Item 70a/b-NY
Dates:
1945?
Blair Birdsall Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0175
Abstract
This collection contains the technical and professional documents of consulting engineer Blair Birdsall. Most of the collection are documents pertaining to the multitude of bridges he worked on, including the Golden Gate, Chesapeake Bay, and Brooklyn Bridges, as a consulting engineer or as a design engineer. The collection spans from 1900 to 2002 covering his entire career and also early Steinman Boynton Gronquist & Birdsall and John A. Roebling Sons Engineering companies.
Dates:
Inclusive Dates
Found in:
Lehigh University Grant Projects
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
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Collection of Bridge Postcards
Item
Identifier: SC Photo 0026
Dates:
1910-1970
Found in:
Lehigh University Grant Projects
Copy of Engineers Private Journal [on] Harlem Bridge
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0142
Abstract
This journal appears to be a unique record
of daily on site observations and construction processes of the building of a second Harlem
River bridge at the site of Third Avenue, County of New York (Manhattan). It contains copied
documents such as the New York State Legislature’s document Chapter 774 dated April 17, 1857
authorizing the building of a new bridge at the site, as well as the design requirements for
the new bridge, removal of the previous bridge and the official appointment and...
Dates:
1857-1861
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
David E. Guise Collection on Bridges
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0345
Abstract
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Dates:
1880-2000
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Herman Haupt Civil War Military Transportation Photographs
Collection
Identifier: SC Photo-0001
Abstract
This collection contains an incomplete series of photographs taken by Andrew J. Russell under the direction of Herman Haupt. These photographs capture different methods for the construction and deconstruction of bridges and other engineering projects implemented during the Civil War to aid military transportation. These photographs are described in detail by Haupt in the accompanying text volume. A series of images, many of which appear to be illustrations of scenes depicted in the...
Dates:
1863
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Howard Soule Jr. Civil Engineer
Collection
Identifier: SC MS0414
Scope and Contents
The collection contains estimates, proposals and designs for bridge projects in 19 New York towns, mostly in the vicinity of Syracuse, New York. The two folio volumes [one large, one smaller] are engineer’s bridge design notebooks most likely compiled in Syracuse, New York, c. 1871-1884 where the Howard Soule Jr. had his association; they consist of pencil sketches, entry notes and calculations with illustrations, estimates and costs. These two volumes document his estimates and proposals...
Dates:
1829 - 1924; Majority of material found within 1869 - 1884
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Jackson Leland Durkee Papers [Draft]
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0283
Abstract
This collection consists of papers of Jackson Leland Durkee, consulting bridge engineer, related to the bridges mainly in the USA.
Dates:
1930 - 2002
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections