Archibald Johnston Letterbook 1912. 1911-1912.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Archibald Johnston Letterbook 1912. 1911-1912.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/471348077

The collection contains ciphered, coded confidential telegrams from/to Archibald Johnston (Lehigh 1889), a president of Bethlehem Steel Company as well as personal letters. He represented The Company abroad primarily in South America. Most of the correspondence is dated 1912 to/from Charles M. Schwab, director of Bethlehem Steel Co. or Eugene G. Grace (Lehigh 1899), a president designate (1913) and Archibald Johnston. The business correspondence is mainly telegrams written in code. The personal letters and telegrams are usually in English but a few are in Spanish. As some of the correspondence indicates, his wife and family accompanied him to South America.

2 boxes ; 1 linear feet.

Lehigh University Libraries, Lehigh Libraries

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7574913

Lehigh University Libraries, Lehigh Libraries

Related Entities

There are 6 Entities related to this resource.

Bethlehem Steel Corporation

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qp00ww (corporateBody)

The Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company, formed in Pennsylvania during the 1840's moved to a West Seneca, N.Y. site in 1899. Steelmaking began in 1903 and by 1909 the City of Lackawanna had been established around the steel plant. Purchased by Bethlehem Steel in 1922, the facility expanded until employment reached over 20,000 in the mid - 1950's. Decline in the 1970's led to the closing of the Lackawanna Plant in 1983. From the description of Bethlehem Steel Corporation photographs, 194...

Grace, Eugene G. (Eugene Gifford), 1876-1960

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67s7wsn (person)

Johnston, Archibald, 1865-1948

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v42q46 (person)

Archibald Johnston (1865-1948) graduated from Lehigh in 1889 in Mechanical Engineering. Upon graduation he went to work for the Bethlehem Iron Company where he was put in charge of building and operating the first gun forging plant and armor plate department in a steel manufacturing plant in the United States. In 1899, when the company became the Bethlehem Steel Company under the directorship of Charles M. Schwab, he became assistant general superintendent. Later, Schwab appointed him a presiden...

Schwab, Charles M., 1862-1939

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tx3njr (person)

Charles M. Schwab was born on April 18, 1862, in Williamsburg, Pa., and grew up in Loretto, Pa. In 1879, he began working for the Carnegie Co. as a stake-driver in engineering corps of Edgar Thompson Steel Works and Furnaces in Braddock, Pa. This plant formed part of Carnegie Brothers & Co., Limited. Schwab was frequently promoted while working at the Edgar Thompson Steel Works, and in 1886, Carnegie appointed him to the position of general superindentent at the Homestead works. In 1889 Schw...

Bethlehem Iron Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zs7r40 (corporateBody)

Bethlehem Steel Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bk5768 (corporateBody)