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Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

Allen J. Barthold Papers (1914-1984)

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0138
Abstract

The collection includes papers from his undergraduate work at Lehigh as well as his graduate and professional work at Yale and Lehigh. The collection also includes photographs and memorabilia from his life as well as papers regarding his two year leave of absence to the Dominican Republic and his work involving the Richards Harding Davis Collection at Lehigh's Linderman Library.

Dates: 1914-1984
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Asa and Sarah Packer Golden Wedding Anniversary Album, January 23, 1878

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0261
Abstract

This is one of the few artifacts that exist at Lehigh of Asa Packer, Lehigh University’s founder. The album is a fabulous record of who was who during the Packer Family’s lifetime. The album reflects the importance and wealth that Asa and Sarah Packer had acquired during their life being with virtually only their own fortitude, hard work, and entrepreneurial endeavor.

Dates: 1878
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Beamish-Sinclair Tanganyika Papers 1930-1932

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0211
Abstract This is an interesting collection of correspondence expounding the British political and economic attitudes toward its African colonies in the early 1930s through the opinions expressed by H. H. Beamish to his various correspondents. The Sinclair family was quite prominent in Tanganyika at the time and wanted a close alliance with Kenya in promoting the coffee trade and in dealing with the “native question in East Africa.” Both Tanganyika and Kenya as British colonies shared the coffee...
Dates: 1930 to 1932
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Bethlehem Chamber Music Society Archives

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0091
Abstract

The material here includes the details of the beginning, constitution, incorporation, IRS material; much correspondence through the years regarding meetings, finances, and performers; secretary’s and treasurer’s reports; mailing lists (computer printouts); publicity material; and programs, posters, contracts and grant proposals. The material was donated in 1999 and 2001 by the Bethlehem Chamber Music Society.

Dates: 1950 - 2016
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

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

Bradford Willard Correspondence and Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0113
Abstract

A collection of student tributes written on the occasion of Lehigh Geology professor Dr. Bradford Willard’s retirement at the end of the Spring Semester 1959. Dr. Willard’s wit and the esteem his peers held for him are humorously recalled in letters from some correspondents who could not attend the honorary dinner.

Dates: 1898 - 1960
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

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
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

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
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Edward Gallagher: Documents on Henry S. Drinker’s Presidency at Lehigh University

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0114
Abstract

Articles, correspondence and biographical information on Henry S. Drinker and his presidency at Lehigh University. Collection is assembled by Prof. Edward J. Gallagher, Department of English at Lehigh University while he was teaching a course that required using primary sources at Special Collections. Prof. Gallagher based his research on the original letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Cecilia Beaux.

Dates: 1897 - 2002
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Edward George Uhl Documents

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS0268
Scope and Contents

The collection contains correspondence, newspaper articles, personal memorabilia, audio tape, CD and photographs.

Dates: 1925 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1941 - 2010
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections