Image Sub-Collection Edwin Forbes Civil War Etchings <p>Etchings created by Edwin A. Forbes depicting scenes from the American Civil War.</p> View Sub-Collection
Image Sub-Collection Albany Water Works, 1835-1851 <p><span>This collection of recorded history of the City of Albany’s water supply covers a period from 1835 to 1851. It contains eight printed pamphlets, one bound handwritten manuscript containing numerous pasted-in newspaper clippings, and a map in good condition. A map of the neighboring environs of Albany, New York, attributed to William J. McAlpine, a prominent civil engineer, is included with one of the pamphlets. Four pamphlets are printed by differentAlbany printers. View Sub-Collection
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 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 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 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 Archival Collections Photographs of Lehigh University Summer Inspection Tour 1922, 1922 This collection depicts a pioneering field trip made in 1922 by Lehigh's Mining Engineering department when they inspected assorted mines and civil engineering structures in Canada and the Northern United States. It consists of 127 black and white photographs, one map, two letters, and three decorative album covers. Thirty of the photographs are duplicated. One set of photographs were collected in 1964 and the larger set in 2011. View Item
Sub-Collection Archibald Johnston Home Videos Digitized films from the Archibald Johnston Papers. View Sub-Collection
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 Sub-Collection SC Photo 0038 Frank Edgar Smith Jr. Photo Album <p><span lang="EN">Album contains black and white photographs of the family of Frank Edgar Smith Jr. and his time at Lehigh University and in its R.O.T.C. program. Mr. Smith graduated from Lehigh in 1942, entered the Army as World War II began and was killed defusing a bomb in 1943.</span></p> View Sub-Collection
Image Archival Collections Joseph Phineas Davis Journal - Cuzco May 26, 1864 to July 29, 1864 This manuscript consists of one small journal measuring 15 x 10 x .75 cm with a brown and black marbled paper over board and tan paper spine with small paper label edged in red with ink handwriting – J. P. Davis 1864 – May 26. Jul 28. Trip to Islay – Trip to Cuzco…. The entire notebook is closely written in pencil on 112 blue lined pages. Each entry is headlined with the calendar date. View Item
Image Sub-Collection Lehigh University Mustard & Cheese Drama Society Collection <p>Photographs and programs from performances by the Mustard & Cheese Drama Society.</p> View Sub-Collection
Image Archival Collections Photo Album of Hill-to-Hill Bridge Construction {"value":"The images included in the album show surveyors, the construction site, equipment and workers. Workers at the site are seen looking over blueprints, using surveying equipment, posing together smiling at the camera. The last eleven pages of the album contain photos of the compiler's family and friends during college life, vacations, graduation. Mainly the photographs are attached to both sides of all the pages. The black paper pages are brittle and chipping. There are 223 photographs. View Item
Image Sub-Collection William L. Estes, Jr. Diaries of Army Service in France <p>This six-volume diary traces Estes’ time in Europe as an Army surgeon during WWI. The first volume of the diary begins on July 3, 1918, when Estes reports for duty in Allentown, Pennsylvania and ends on August 4, 1918 in France. Although the diary contains printed dates, Estes did not generally follow them. In addition, in much of first volume, Estes has written his entries on sheets of paper and pasted them directly over the original diary pages. </p> View Sub-Collection
Image Sub-Collection Estelle Johnston Diaries <p>Estelle Johnston (1867-1952) was a daughter of the prominent Bethlehem, Pennsylvania timber merchant family Brown-Borhek. She married Archibald Johnston, a Bethlehem Steel Company executive and the first mayor of Bethlehem on February 12, 1891 in the Central Moravian Church. They had three children, only two of which survived. Estelle’s diary details her daily activities in 1938. </p> View Sub-Collection
Image Archival Collections Benjamin Miller Diary of 1916 South American trip, including expenses and distances traveled View Item
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 Archival Collections Captain William Herman Wilhelm Journal, 1898-1902 {"value":"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 Archival Collections Copy of Engineers Private Journal [on] Harlem Bridge, 1860-1861 {"value":"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 Benjamin LeRoy Miller Diary, 1891 {"value":"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.","attr0":"description"} View Item
