The National Canal Museum Archives contains an extensive collection of materials relating to the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, especially the rich industrial history of the Lehigh Valley. Below is a listing of the collections, materials, and topics available through the archives. If you would like more information on any collection or topic, have research questions, or would like to schedule a research appointment, please click here.

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• Alpha Portland Cement
• American Canal Society Collection
  • American Canal Society Collection – Stephen M. Straight
• American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, 1879-1977
• Anthracite Coal Region, photographs
• Arbogast & Bastian Photo Collection
• Atwater-Kent Radio Company

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• Bethlehem Review
• Bethlehem Steel (Topic)
  • Bethlehem Steel – Annual Reports of the Chief of the Bureau of Construction
  • Bethlehem Steel – Blast Furnace Division
  • Bethlehem Steel – Board Minutes from 1895-1901, Photocopies
  • Bethlehem Steel – Books
  • Bethlehem Steel – Business Ethics and Safety
  • Bethlehem Steel – Clarence Snyder Collection
  • Bethlehem Steel – Edward Sterner Collection
  • Bethlehem Steel – End of Bethlehem Steel
  • Bethlehem Steel – Engineering Drawings
  • Bethlehem Steel – Floyd Kennedy Collection
  • Bethlehem Steel – Homer Research Collection
  • Bethlehem Steel – Ivan M. Viest Collection
  • Bethlehem Steel – John Fielding Collection
  • Bethlehem Steel – Loop Course Manuals
  • Bethlehem Steel – Martin Schaeffer Collection
  • Bethlehem Steel – Metallurgic Division
  • Bethlehem Steel – Photographs, General
  • Bethlehem Steel – Photo Albums, Bound
  • Bethlehem Steel – Printed Materials
  • Bethlehem Steel – Product Brochures
  • Bethlehem Steel – Promotional Items
  • *Bethlehem Steel – Quintus H. Rotzell, Jr.
  • Bethlehem Steel – Safety Posters and Pamphlets
  • Bethlehem Steel – Telephone Directories
  • Bethlehem Steel – US Navy Contracts
  • Bethlehem Steel – USS Maine – Cofferdam for Raising and Scuttling
• Bound Theses and Dissertations
• Bristol Aviation and Shipbuilding
• Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Collections

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• P. Yoder Collection
• Canal Currents Newsletters
• Canals, photographs
• Canal Society of Indiana Tour Booklets, 1998-2000, 2002
• Canal Symposium Proceedings
• Carbon Democrat, Bound Copies, 1849-1852
• Charles M. Schwab Collection
• Charles Schwab – “On the Hudson” materials
• Charles Schwab – Andrew Carnegie Framed Correspondence
• Crane Iron Works Collection

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• Delaware and Lehigh Corridor
• Delaware Canal Maps
• Delaware Division Improvements
• Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad Collection
• Dixie Cup Collection

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• Earl Bauman Fountain Hill Photograph Collection
• Earl Heydinger Canal Collection
• Empire Steel and Iron Records – Skillman Family
• Eugene Grace – Biographical Materials

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• Fairless Steel
• Frank Blasé Collection

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• George Harvan Collection

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• Industries (topic)
• Iron Companies (topic)

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• Joseph Elliott Photo Collection
• John Fritz Collection
• John Noble Photos
• Joseph Sharga Collection
• Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute

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• Lance Metz Collection
• Lehigh and New England Railroad
• Lehigh Canal, Abbott Street Restoration, photographs
• Lehigh Coal and Navigation (topic)
  • Lehigh Coal and Navigation – Employment Records for Panther Valley Mine (Available on Ancestry.com)
  • Lehigh Coal and Navigation – Lansford and LNE Repair Shops, photographs
  • Lehigh Coal and Navigation – Managers Portraits
  • Lehigh Coal and Navigation – Records
  • Lehigh Coal and Navigation – Stock Certificates
  • Lehigh Coal and Navigation – W. Julian Parton
• Lehigh County and Wyoming County Historical Society Proceedings
• Lehigh Valley Coal Company Records
• Lehigh Valley Railroad (topic)
  • Lehigh Valley Railroad – Annual Reports
  • Lehigh Valley Railroad – Charts
  • Lehigh Valley Railroad – Photographs, General
  • Lehigh Valley Railroad – Trainman’s Uniform, Hat, Buttons
• Lock Haven Power & Light Company
• Louis J.G. Buehler Collection

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• Madesco Tackle-Block Company (Palmer County)
• Maps of Bethlehem
• McKelvey Trolley photographs
• Midvale Steel
• Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection
• Morris Canal Collection – Jim Lee

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• National Canal Museum – Hugh Moore Park photographs, 1970-2005
• National Canal Museum – Records
• National Canal Museum and Hugh Moore Park – Early Development
• National Railway Bulletins – 1990s-2000s
• New York State Barge Canal

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• Oral History Collection
• Oxford Furnace Photographs

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• Panama Canal Collection
• Penna Coal Company Photos
• Pennsylvania Canal Society photographs
• Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 1880-1890s
• Pennsylvania Pump Corporation Collection

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• Sillivan Collection (Sillivan Cement Company)
• Railroads, photographs
• Robert H. Sayre Collection

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• Schuylkill Canal Lock Books
• Silk Industry (topic)
  • Silk Industry – Artifacts
  • Silk Industry – Catoir Silk Mill, Ken Bloom photographs
• Stereoscope Cards
  • Stereoscope Cards – Steers Photo Collection
• Susan Cunningham Collection (Unpublished Research for Asa Packer Biography)

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• Tung Sol Lamp Works

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• Union Canal Papers
• Universal Atlas Cement Company Collection

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• Valley Gazette, with Index
• Vulcan Iron Works

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• Warren Wilbur – Family Album and Portrait Photo
• William Shank Collection
• William T. Richards Collection
• Wilmot Richards – Wilmot Engineering