Download or read book Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region written by John Stuart Richards and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four distinct anthracite coal fields encompass an area of 1,700 square miles in the northeastern portion of Pennsylvania. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, underground coal mining was at its zenith and the work of miners was more grueling and dangerous than it is today. Faces blackened by coal and helmet lamps lit by fire are no longer parts of the everyday lives of miners in the region. Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region is a journey into a world that was once very familiar. These vintage photographs of collieries, breakers, miners, drivers, and breaker boys illuminate the dark of the anthracite mines. The pictures of miners, roof falls, mules, and equipment deep underground tell the story of the hard lives lived around the hard coal. Above ground, breaker boys toiled in unbearable conditions inside the noisy, vibrating, soot-filled monsters known as coal breakers.

Download or read book The Face of Decline written by Thomas Dublin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania once prospered. Today, very little mining or industry remains, although residents have made valiant efforts to restore the fabric of their communities. In The Face of Decline, the noted historians Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht offer a sweeping history of this area over the course of the twentieth century. Combining business, labor, social, political, and environmental history, Dublin and Licht delve into coal communities to explore grassroots ethnic life and labor activism, economic revitalization, and the varied impact of economic decline across generations of mining families. The Face of Decline also features the responses to economic crisis of organized capital and labor, local business elites, redevelopment agencies, and state and federal governments. Dublin and Licht draw on a remarkable range of sources: oral histories and survey questionnaires; documentary photographs; the records of coal companies, local governments, and industrial development corporations; federal censuses; and community newspapers. The authors examine the impact of enduring economic decline across a wide region but focus especially on a small group of mining communities in the region's Panther Valley, from Jim Thorpe through Lansford to Tamaqua. The authors also place the anthracite region within a broader conceptual framework, comparing anthracite's decline to parallel developments in European coal basins and Appalachia and to deindustrialization in the United States more generally.

Download or read book Southwestern Pennsylvania s Coal Region written by Marion M. Piccolomini and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southwestern Pennsylvania has a strong history in the coal, coke, and steel industries that helped shape the region in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Existing communities expanded, and new towns were built by mining companies. The available jobs attracted people from around the United States and the world, creating a melting pot of different cultures, ethnicities, and beliefs.

Download or read book The Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Industry 1860 1902 written by Richard G. Healey and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Recurrent and non-recurrent economic fluctuations at the national level -- Constraints on business decision-making-the impact of geology, topography and mining technology -- Prior investment in mining and transportation infrastructure -- Railroad expansion and corporate control -- Network development strategies and the articulation of the anthracite distribution region in interior markets -- Railroad expansion and corporate control II: tidewater markets, trunk line connections and comparative economic performance -- Waxing and waning markets I: sectoral shifts in the use of anthracite -- Waxing and waning markets II: the changing geography of market power -- Waxing and waning markets III : regional shifts, price behaviour and the changing size -- Composition of anthracite production -- Corporations, competition and the rise of the cartels I : precursors and pre-disposing factors to industry-wide combination -- Corporations, competition and the rise of the cartels II: the 1873 combination and its successors -- Developing and managing the coal estate -- Region building I: financing development in the mining economy -- Region building II: investment in new mining and railroad capacity -- Regional retrenchment: rationalization and reorganisation in the Schuylkill region 1872-1902 -- Regional dynamics, disequilibrium tendencies and regional economic development -- Notes for chapters 1-16 -- Preface to bibliography.

Download or read book Coalcracker Culture written by Harold W. Aurand and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The knowledge that they traded their lives for a job generated an overarching fear of losing their income."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Report of the Department of Mines of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. Department of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Department of Mines of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. Dept. of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Department of Mines of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. Department of Mines and Mineral Industries and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pennsylvania Coal written by Shyamal K. Majumdar and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bituminous Coal Fields of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dirty Mines written by John Fitzgerald and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-13 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIRTY MINES is a story about coal mining in Pennsylvania. For the first time many of the jobs performed by boys, as young as 8 years old, are described in detail. Cesar D'Angelo was 10 when his father was killed in the mines. Cesar, the oldest boy in his family, had to take his father's place working for the coal company. His first job was working high up in the dangerous coal breakers. At the age of 12 he went down into the blackish, coal dusted mines to begin his long mining career. His first job was sitting in the dark alone for 10 to 12 hours a day as a door keeper. Later he became a spragger, mule driver, and had various other jobs until becoming a lifetime coal miner. DIRTY MINES also addresses the rich history of this era; including the miscarriage of justice towards the Molly Maguires in their fight for union rights and the environmental disaster at the Knox Coal company that ended coal mining in North Eastern Pennsylvania. This is a family story about the last generation of Scranton coal miners. It is a fascinating and warm narrative of sacrifice, humor, and love. A revealing story about a forgotten way of life in difficult times, with very little pay in horrible working conditions. It's an anecdotal story of courage and tenacity of poor deprived coal miners that struggled to make a better life for their children. Their historic sacrifices are being passed on to a new generation, so their unique heritage will never be forgotten.

Download or read book Bituminous Coal Fields of Pennsylvania pt 1 General information on coal by G H Ashley 1928 pt 2 Detailed description of coal fields by J D Sisler 2d ed 1932 pt 3 Coal resources by J F Reese and J D Sisler 1928 pt 4 Coal analyses prepared by U S Bureau of mines 1925 written by Pennsylvania. Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reports of the Inspectors of Mines of the Anthracite Coal Regions of Pennsylvania for the Year written by Pennsylvania. Inspectors of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Anthracite Coal Industry written by Peter Roberts and published by New York : Macmillan Company. This book was released on 1901 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Coal Company to the Stockholders August 12 1864 written by Pennsylvania Coal Company (PENNSYLVANIA) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Dept of Mines of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. Dept. of Mines and Mineral Industries and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Coal in Pennsylvania Recent Developments and Prospects written by Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Joint State Government Commission. Panel of Technical Advisors on Coal Marketing and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: