Local History

Spiral bound. Cover title: A journey of Faith: Brief Histories of Bethlehem's Religious Communities. "Prepared for the celebration of Bethlehem's 250th anniversary."

Photographs, newspaper clippings, and other ephemera compiled in a scrapbook by the Luckenbach Family. The scrapbook depicts the neighborhood in North Bethlehem where the Bethlehem Area Public Library and City Hall are currently located. Many of the houses in the photographs were torn down for redevelopment.

Cover title Includes original mailing envelope History of Technology Collection

125 p. : photos. ; 27 cm.

"Issued in connection with the Semi-centennial celebration Oct. 3-9, 1915"

Summer report 1922 on Hill & Hill Bridge : being built by Roger & Hagerty, Bethlehem, Pa.

Annual addresses by the mayors of Bethlehem, including reports by city departments. Departmental reports contain data on city finance, infrastructure, public health, demographics, and crime.

After its founding in 1822, the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company (LCNC) became one of the most important companies in the emergence of the American Industrial Revolution for its innovative approach to canal systems, iron production and coal mining. LCNC transported anthracite coal from Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe) to Easton and Philadelphia, reaching New York by the 1830s. The collection includes the annual reports to the company's stockholders.

The Bethlehem Review was an internal corporate news bulletin published by Bethlehem Steel. It was addressed to company employees and covered topics including annual reports, financials, engineering projects, and other activities conducted by subsidiary companies. This publication was published irregularly from 1924 until 2001, shortly before Bethlehem Steel declared bankruptcy in 2003.