Charles L. Lochman papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0791

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Lochman. a doctor in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, created this album of 220 cyanotypes of live plants, indigenous and introduced, growing without protection in the United States. Album has a manuscript title-page, Preface, index and captions.

Given to the Academy by Lochman on Dec. 21, 1896.

Collection contains materials related to botany, photography, printing, advertising, and patent law.

Dates

1851-1899

Creator

Lochman, Charles L., 1822-1900 (Person)

Language of Materials

The bulk of the materials are English, some are in German.

Conditions Governing Access

None

Conditions Governing Use

Collection is open for research.

Biographical note

From the obituary of Charles Lightheiser Lochman, "American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record," 1900: "Dr. Lochman was born in Hamburg, Berks County, Pa. He received a common school education and then went to Minersville, where he read medicine. Later he went to Philadelphia and established a wholesale drug house, carrying on the business first under the firm name of Lochman & Siberling, and subsequently under the name of Lochman & Zellen. While in business he pursued a course of study in medicine and pharmacy at the University of Pennsylvania. His health failed him, however, and then he located at Carlisle for several years, removing from there to Allentown, and locating in Bethlehem twenty-one years ago, where he confined himself to the manufacture of proprietary medicine and plied his literary art."

Extent

3 linear feet (Four 5-inch document cases; and 3 temprorary cardboard boxes)

Additional Description

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Collection contains lantern slides best viewed with a light box.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Bruce Tepper and Jane S. Lewis, 8/26/2010.

Accruals

Further accruals expected from this donor.

Related Materials

ANSP Coll 791 - Includes an Albumn of botanical photographs, 1896. Album includes 220 cyanotypes of live plants, indigenous and introduced, growing in the USA. Donated to the Academy by Lochman on Dec. 21, 1896.

Separated Materials

Four items have been separated from this collection:

1) Empty photo album/family record. "A Family Record and Album with Marriage Certificate and Explanitory Vocabulary of Common English Christian Names, by Charles L. Lochman." The album has a metal clasp and an ornate purple cover.

2) through 4) Three volumes of "The Photographic Times Annual," authors' editions, 1893, 1894 and 1898.