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.  Those with detailed finding aids are designated with a *.  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
• Arbogast & Bastian Photo Collection
• Atwater-Kent Radio Company

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• Bethlehem Daily Times
  • Century Edition, 1900
  • Industrial Editions, 1982
• Bethlehem Iron Company – Scientific American 1900
• Bethlehem Review
• Bethlehem Steel
  • Bethlehem Steel – Machine Shop Records
  • 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 – Books – R.L. Lang
  • Bethlehem Steel – Broadsheet c. 1900
  • Bethlehem Steel – Burns Harbor Plant Materials
  • Bethlehem Steel – Business Ethics and Safety
  • Bethlehem Steel – Clarence Snyder Photo Collection
  • Bethlehem Steel – Clarence Snyder, Oversized
  • Bethlehem Steel – Detroit River Bridge
  • Bethlehem Steel – Edward Sterner Collection
  • Bethlehem Steel – End of Bethlehem Steel
  • Bethlehem Steel – Engineering Drawings
  • Bethlehem Steel – Floyd Kennedy Books
  • Bethlehem Steel – History
  • Bethlehem Steel – Homer Research Collection
  • Bethlehem Steel – Information
  • Bethlehem Steel – Interim Report on the City of Bethlehem
  • Bethlehem Steel – Ivan M. Viest Collection
  • Bethlehem Steel – John Fielding Collection
  • Bethlehem Steel – Joseph Sharga Collection
  • Bethlehem Steel – Launching of the SS Olympic Games
  • Bethlehem Steel – Loop Course Manuals
  • *Bethlehem Steel – Martin Schaeffer Collection
  • Bethlehem Steel – Metallurgic Division
  • Bethlehem Steel – Misc Materials
  • Bethlehem Steel – News Clippings
  • Bethlehem Steel – Oak Ridge
  • Bethlehem Steel – Photographs, General
  • Bethlehem Steel – Photographs, Presses and Items
  • Bethlehem Steel – Photo Albums, Bound
    • 1^st Intercompany Rifle Match, Peking
    • Blowing Engine Safety Manual
    • Detroit River Bridge
    • Drop Forge Safety Manual
    • Eugene Gifford Grace
    • Flood of 1942
    • Guns and Armor Plate, 1904
    • Navy “E” Award
    • Repair of the Stockholm
    • Opening of the Mameratum Mining Company
    • SS Cabere
    • SS Olympic Games
    • USS Cleveland
  • Bethlehem Steel – Printed Materials
  • Bethlehem Steel – Product Brochures
  • Bethlehem Steel – Promotional Items
  • Bethlehem Steel – Public Affairs Department Records
  • Bethlehem Steel – Public Affairs Videos
  • Bethlehem Steel – Publications
  • *Bethlehem Steel – Quintus H. Rotzell, Jr.
  • Bethlehem Steel – Safety Posters and Pamphlets
  • Bethlehem Steel – Saucon Mills, John F Connor, Workers
  • Bethlehem Steel – Shipyard Records
  • Bethlehem Steel – Telephone Directories
  • Bethlehem Steel – US Navy Contracts
  • Bethlehem Steel – USS Maine – Cofferdam for Raising and Scuttling
• Bound Thesis and Dissertations
• Brayer, The.
• Bristol Aviation and Shipbuilding

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• C.P. Yoder Collection
• Cambria Iron Company – Framed Portraits
• Canal Currents Newsletters
• Canal Photo Albums
• Canal Society of Indiana Tour Booklets
• Canal Symposium Proceedings
• Carbon Democrat, Bound Copies, 1849-1852
• Carolyn Cunningham Collection (Unpublished Research for Asa Packer Biography)
• Chain Dam Collection
• Charles M. Schwab Collection
  • Charles Schwab – “On the Hudson” materials
  • Charles Schwab – Andrew Carnegie Framed Correspondence
• Coal Region Photos
• Crane Iron Works Collection (See Empire Iron)

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• R. Sillivan Collection (Sillivan Cement Company)
• Delaware and Lehigh Corrider
• Delaware and Raritan Canal Regulations
• Delaware Canal Maps
• Delaware Division Improvements
• Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad Collection
• Dixie Cup Collection

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• Earl Bauman Fountain Hill Photo Collection
• *Earl Heydinger Canal Collection
• Easton Daily Express, Industrial Edition
• Empire Steel and Iron Records – Skillman Family (See Crane Iron)
• Eugene Grace – Biographical Materials

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• Fairless Steel
• Floyd Kennedy Collection
• Frank Blasé Collection

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• George Harvan Collection
  • George Harvan – From Thomas Dublin – Used in “When the Mines Closed”
  • George Harvan Prints

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• HAER Study of Beth Forge
• HAER Survey of the Lehigh Canal, 1979
• Hugh Moore Park Photos, Harry Rinker

I – (Return to Top)

• Industrial Photo Collection
• Iron Companies – Various – Photos

J – (Return to Top)

• Joseph Elliott Photo Collection
• John Fritz Collection
• *John Noble Photos
• Johnstown Water Company Records
• Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute

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• Ken Bloom – Framed Copies (See Silk Industry)

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• Lance Metz Collection
• *Lehigh and New England Railroad
• Lehigh Canal Restoration
• Lehigh Coal and Navigation Collection
  • Lehigh Coal and Navigation – Boat and Lock Plans, 1932
  • Lehigh Coal and Navigation – Compensation Records
  • Lehigh Coal and Navigation – Employment Records for Panther Valley Mine (Available on Ancestry.com)
  • Lehigh Coal and Navigation – Lansford and LNE Repair Shops Photos
  • 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 Pioneer and Mauch Chunk Courier, Bound Copies, 1829-30
• Lehigh Valley Coal Company Records
• Lehigh Valley Railroad
  • Lehigh Valley Railroad – Annual Reports
  • Lehigh Valley Railroad – Charts
  • Lehigh Valley Railroad – Photo Collection
  • 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 Photos
• Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection
• Morris Canal Collection – Jim Lee

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• National Canal Museum Collection
  • National Canal Museum – Hugh Moore Park Photos, 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 Photos

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• • Panama Canal Collection
  • Penna Coal Company Photos
  • Pennsylvania Canal Society & Hugh Moore Park Canals Photo Collections
  • Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 1880-1890s
  • Pennsylvania Pump Corporation Collection
  • Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 1930-1940
  • Photograph Collection (General)

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• None

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• Railroad Collection (General)
  • Railroad Photos
  • Railroad Stocks and Timetables, Misc.
• Records of Iron/Steel Companies, Canals, Railroads, Mines (General)
• Robert H. Sayre Collection

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• Schuylkill Canal Lock Permits
• Silk Industry Collection
  • Silk Industry – Ken Bloom Collection
  • Ken Bloom – Framed Copies
• Society of Industrial Archaeology Journals and Conference Proceedings
• Stereoscope Cards
  • Stereoscope Cards – Steers Photo Collection

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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
• Wilbur Hoxie Collection
• William Shank Canal Collection
• William T. Richards Collection
• Wilmot Richards – Wilmot Engineering
  • Photos and Slides

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• None

Y – (Return to Top)

• None

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• None