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Asa Packer: Lehigh Valley Railroad Company

Library research guide on Lehigh University founder Asa Packer and his family, including his daughter Lucy Linderman and family.

Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (LVRR)

 

PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS ABOUT LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD:

  • Annual Reports - 1855-1940

Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company to the Stockholders.

  • Books

Frank Whelan and Lance Metz. Diaries of Robert Heysham Sayre. (1990)

Search ASA2.0 Library catalog for other books on LVRR.

  • Articles

Search history and humanities related databases for Asa Packer and LVRR in the Library Database Finder page.

  • Manuscripts and Records

SC MS 0005 Asa Packer Estate Accounts and Financial Records
SC MS 0040 Estate of Harry E. Packer
SC MS 0156 Morris Canal and Bank Company records
SC MS 0159 Lehigh Valley Rail Road documents, 1890-1933
SC MS 0198 Lehigh Valley Rail Road Ledger
 

 

RELATED COLLECTIONS IN OTHER INSTITUTIONS:

Lehigh Preserve

Lehigh's institutional repository Lehigh Preserve contains resources related to Asa Packer and Lehigh Valley Railroad. More resources will be added to such as theses, dissertations and photographs as they are processed.  

1995 master's thesis in History "Black Diamonds No More: A Technological History of the Dieselization of the Lehigh Valley Railroad" by Jeffery W. Schram.