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Publisher: Lehigh University Digital Bridges: Bridges of the Nineteenth Century: A Twenty-First Century Book Collection 
 This "site consists of a collection of thirty representative 19th century American bridge engineering monographs, manuals, and documents from the Lehigh University Libraries' Special Collections." Browsable and searchable. Also includes glossaries of bridge terms, personal and corporate names, and specific bridges. http://bridges.lib.lehigh.edu/ Topics: Architecture, Transportation Last updated Sep 9, 2006 One Person's Garbage ... Another Person's Treasure: Dumpster Diving, Freeganism, and Anarchy
This 2005 essay provides an introduction to the "anarchist political" aspects of the practice of dumpster diving, the act of searching through trash to find usable items. Includes a short bibliography with links to related sites. From Verb, an interdisciplinary journal published and sponsored by the Humanities Center at Lehigh University. http://verb.lib.lehigh.edu/index.php/verb/article/view/19/18 Topics: Activism, Environment Last updated May 16, 2007 Cartographic Perspectives: From the New World to Your World
This exhibit has the goal of making "clear the power of maps to represent and to shape new knowledge about place." Exhibit sections consider maps from early exploration and discovery and 19th and 20th century exploration, urban maps, and more. Features digitized maps and commentaries from faculty and students on maps that are important to their work. From Lehigh University Special Collections. http://cf2.cc.lehigh.edu/projects/exhibits.asp?id=13 Topics: Maps Last updated Apr 27, 2009 |
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