Image Archival Collections Estate documents of Harry E. Packer- Stock certificates 1881-1886 Stock certificates from the Estate of Harry E. Packer, deceased. View Item
Image Archival Collections Colonial Iron Manufacture Ledger 1770-1773 Handwritten ledger documenting the shipment of pig iron from the Berkshire Furnace, John Patton, John Lesher, Henry Smith, to various forges in the vicinity of Reading, Pennsylvania among them the Charming Forge, Moselem forge, Tulpehocken Furnace. Journal provides the names of iron foundries, iron forges, individual clients and the men hauling the iron identifying several individual African-American cart-men. View Item
Image Sub-Collection Pottstown Machine Company Photographs This collection contains 366 photographs, a four-page inventory, and one advertisement. The photographs are black and white and vary in size. Almost all of the photographs are of machines manufactured by the company. Several include the interior of the companyโs buildings and/or personnel. Many of the photographs have written and/or stamped information on the front and/or back. This information includes company names (possibly photographers or purchasers)and/or information about the actual machines. View Sub-Collection
Image Sub-Collection Prints from Jeff Milet Papers Including George C. Izenour Documents - Collection 2 Seven prints depicting theaters from around the world. George C. Izenour collection I (see SC MS 0085) was donated by Lehigh University professor of Theater Jeff Milet in 1990s. This part of the collection (Collection II) had been used for teaching theater stage and set design by Professor Jeff Milet. View Sub-Collection
Image Sub-Collection Lehigh University Mustard & Cheese Drama Society Collection Photographs and programs from performances by the Mustard & Cheese Drama Society. View Sub-Collection
Image Archival Collections Benjamin LeRoy Miller Diary, 1891 Born in 1874, Benjamin LeRoy Miller was a Profess of Geology at Lehigh University from 1907-1944, having earned his A.B. from the University of Kansas and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Before coming to Lehigh he taught at Penn College, Bryn Mawr, and briefly at Princeton. His diary, written when he was only 17, describes his life as a student in Kansas. It begins in Rock Creek, Kansas on January 1, 1891, and ends in Topeka, Kansas on December 31, 1891. Numbered pages 1-56 torn out from diary. Versos of inserts were not imaged. View Item
Image Archival Collections Copy of Engineers Private Journal [on] Harlem Bridge, 1860-1861 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 acceptance letters of the chief engineer, William J. View Item
Image Archival Collections Captain William Herman Wilhelm Journal, 1898-1902 William Herman Wilhelm (1867-1901) was born in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, the son of James Henry and Martha Weaver Wilhelm. He was educated at Ulrich's Preparatory School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then went on to Lehigh University in 1883. Wilhelm left Lehigh for the U.S. Military Academy and graduated from there in 1888. When war was declared against Spain, he became aide-de-camp to Brigadier-General Simon Snyder and accompanied him with the Army of Occupation to Cuba. View Item
Image Photographs and Prints Photograph Album of Goulds Manufacturing Company, Plant, New York, circa 1915. Photograph album depicting Goulds Manufacturing Plant, Seneca Falls, New York which was world famous for its assortment of pumps. View Item
Image Photographs and Prints Photograph Album of the De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. Kimberley, South Africa 1899-1905 The photographs of five mines: DeBeers, Dutoitspan, Kimberley, Wesselton and Bultfontein Mine with captions as well as mining equipment, ore processing and diamond matrix ore are pasted to the board pages. There is no alphabetic or chronological sequence displayed and no absolute certainty as to the photographer considering that some of the photographs are described as being taken from a time before Mr. Fuller was in South Africa.There is also a list of the mine managers for the De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. Five managers: Alpheus F. Williams (De Beers General Manager), C. M. View Item
Image Photographs and Prints Photograph album documenting the construction of the Bacon Island South, Pratt through-truss, swing bridge in San Joaquin, California, ca 1905 A bridge construction album made-up and photographed by someone with access to the construction site. The Bacon Island South Bridge is a pin-connected swing bridge with a 326 foot span and an unusual truss configuration to support the extension out from the pivot. The album shows all the details of construction, the pivot mount and its movement, movement of truss sections into position at the site, erection, barges and steamboats on the river, truss details etc. View Item
Image Archival Collections Muster Roll of the German Regiment in Service of the United States The collection consists of three sheets of paper with indications of three folds: A Roll of the German Pennsylvania Regiment of Foot of Subsistence from June 1st 1778 to Nov. 1779 (on reverse side is added Philad'a); Muster Roll of the Field Staff and Commissioned Officers of the Ger. Reg't in Service of the United States, Commanded by Lt. Col. Weltner Taken for the months of July, Aug & Sept & Oct 1779 (on reverse written twice is the title); View Item
Image Digital Bridges Collection of Photographs Depicting Civil War Bridge Construction and Deconstruction with Book of Accompanying Descriptions Cover of descriptive text features Herman Haupt's handwritten note ""Photographs were taken by Capt A.J. Russell Chief of Photograph Corps. U.S. Military Railroads"" View Item
Image Archival Collections Benjamin Lightfoot Survey Notebook This manuscript is a narrative of the locale the line passed through and the detailed surveying coordinates for the alignment of the wagon road. It includes survey data of a road to be built between Pottsville to Shamokin (then an Indian Territory) in 18th century. It also contains detailed information on surveyor's measurements and coordinates; descriptions of the terrain, and insight into frontier Pennsylvania and the interaction between the English settlers, militias and the native people on the Schuylkill and Susquehanna rivers of colonial Pennsylvania. View Item
Image Sub-Collection SC MS 0415 Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company Maps from the Library of William Arthur Lathrop, LCNC President 1906-1912 View Sub-Collection
Image Sub-Collection Lehigh Valley Railroad Land Documents The collection contains approximately 384 documents (deeds, titles, indentures, correspondence and leases) for anthracite coal lands, 40 envelopes, 20 maps, two pamphlets, one photogravure, and one large colored "painting." In general, the items are dusty, stained, crumpled, and some are very fragile.The earliest date mentioned in the documents is 1773 (Tomlinson survey of land) referred to in a later dated deed to the most recent items from the PecaCoal Company dated 1962. The bulk of the documents are land exchanges mostly in the 1850s to the 1890s. View Sub-Collection
Image Sub-Collection Tamar E. Bair Photo Slides Photographic slides taken by Tamar E. Bair and donated by David Bair. Images show the city of Bethelehem in the 1960s and 1970s. Many of the photographs show the Bicentennial of the American Revolution parade and celebration. Construction and demolition projects are the city are also captured. View Sub-Collection
Image Sub-Collection Correspondence and Printed Material about Gettysburg National Cemetery The collection contains printed material, clippings and correspondence on the development of the Gettysburg (Pa.) Soldiers' National Cemetery during the American Civil War. Correspondence is mainly between John R. Bartlett, the Secretary of the Cemetery Commission and David Wills, President of the Cemetery Commission but other state representatives are also included. Dates range from 1863 to 1874. There are 82 letters, 19 assorted leaflets, 10 newspaper articles, 7 booklets, 6 railroad passes, 3 postcards, 4 ink drawings, one certificate in the collection. View Sub-Collection
Image Sub-Collection Eckley B. Coxe Notebooks This collection contains five handwritten, bound notebooks with notes, drawings, computations, etc. on scientific matters (one partly in German). Undated, but most likely from his study in Germany. View Sub-Collection
Image Sub-Collection Francis Magnin de Collogny Travel Manuscripts about Bolivia and Peru, 1863 Manuscripts include travel accounts of Francis Magnin about social life and customs of Bolivia and Peru with many hand drawn, pen-and-ink sketches. Several quotes from famous literature are interspersed throughout. Handwritten title translates to "Peru, China and Japan: Intimate Memories." However, there is no indication in these two volumes about visiting China or Japan. Most of the events in the first volume take place in Bolivia, and the second volume in Lima, Peru. View Sub-Collection
Image Sub-Collection Harvey Denison Kitchel Micrographical Notes Notations of an amateur scientist whose profession and training was as a man of the cloth who acquired a fine microscope and was diligent in making observations of algae, mosses and blood of animals and humans. Reverend Kitchel made colored illustrations of his observations and consulted with others regarding his observations. He classed his observations as field notes. He and his family had a number of connections to Lehigh University. View Sub-Collection
Image Sub-Collection Edwin Forbes Civil War Etchings Etchings created by Edwin A. Forbes depicting scenes from the American Civil War. View Sub-Collection
Image Sub-Collection SC MS 0078 Records of Ludwig and Erwin Loewy The Ludwig and Erwin Loewy Records consist of manuscript boxes containing correspondence, photographs, blueprints, magazines, clippings, ephemera, artifacts, books, speeches, staff memoranda, reports, corporate histories, and passports (on loan), 1928-1959. Correspondence and photographs related to the donation of this material to Lehigh University (1990-2012) are also included. View Sub-Collection
