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 Coal Regions of Pennsylvania written by Eli Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coal Regions of Pennsylvania Being a General Geological Historical Statistical Review of the Anthracite Coal Districts written by Anonymous and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coal Regions of Pennsylvania written by A. M. Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports of the Inspector of Coal Mines of the Anthracite Coal Regions of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. Inspector of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Coal Regions of Pennsylvania Being a General Geological Historical Statistical Review of the Anthracite Coal Districts Illustrated with Colored Maps and Engravings written by Eli Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 The Coal Regions of Pennsylvania written by Ele Bowen and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Coal Regions of Pennsylvania: Being a General, Geological, Historical and Statistical Review of the Anthracite Coal Districts T e navigation company commenced the improvement of the Lehigh in August, 1813. H1820, Coal was sent to Philadelphia, by an artificial navi ation, and sold at $8 50 per ton delivered at t e door of the purchasers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Reports of the Inspectors of Coal Mines of the Anthracite Coal Regions of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. Inspectors of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brief Description of the Anthracite Coal Fields of Pennsylvania written by Charles Albert Ashburner and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Reports of the Inspectors of Coal Mines of the Anthracite Coal Regions of Pennsylvania 1881 written by Pennsylvania Inspectors of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 The Coal Regions of Pennsylvania 1848 Being a General Geological Historical and Statistical Review of the Anthracite Coal Districts Classic Repri written by Ele Bowen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Coal Regions of Pennsylvania, 1848: Being a General, Geological, Historical and Statistical Review of the Anthracite Coal Districts The Coal in the valley of Wyoming was known, and various experiments made to use it, long before any of the adjacent, or other regions in the United States. Had been explo re In the years 1775 and '76, several ark loads of Coal were taken down the Suaque hanna river, and hauled to the United States Armory at Carlisle, for the manufacture of fire-arms. This Coal, as we learh from the Report of Mr. Packer, was obtained from land belon ing to the late Judge Hollenback, one mile a ove Wilkesbarre, and near the mouth of the mill-stream. The same bed was open ed about twenty years ago, at the place pointed out by the Judge in his life-time, and upon removmg the overlaying earth, the marks of tools were plainly perceptible in the Coal seam. In 1768, it is said, this Coal was first used by an ingenius blacksmith, nam ed Obadiah Gore, a settler from Connecticut; and having fully succeeded in applying it to his busineu. It éoon became the only fuel employed by the blacksmiths in the valley. It was first used in a grate by Judge Fell, of Wilkes-barre, in the year 1808, who, to use his words, conceived the idea that, if a body of this Coal were ignited, and confined together, it would burn as a fuel; and to try the experiment, he had a grate erected for the purpose, about eight inches in depth, and twenty-two inches long, and the Coal. After being. Ignited in it, burned beyond the most lengume expectation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Digging Dusky Diamonds written by John Lindermuth and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on contemporary newspaper accounts and genealogical records, Digging Dusky Diamonds tells the story of the people who made the anthracite coal mining industry a major economic force in Pennsylvania in the 19th and early 20th centuries. How the miners and their families lived and worked, loved and died is recorded in old newspapers and reveals their daily concerns, their diversions, social attitudes and prejudices. The accounts reveal what was different about those people and what has remained constant in us, their descendants. Though the focus is mainly on Northumberland and Schuylkillcounties, similar conditions prevailed across the anthracite mining region. About the author: A native of Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, J. R. Lindermuth worked as a newspaper reporter and editor for nearly 40 years. Since retiring, he has served as librarian of the Northumberland County Historical Society where he assists patrons with genealogy and research. He is the author of 12 novels and his short stories and articles have been published in a variety of magazines. He is a member of International Thriller Writers, EPIC and the Short Mystery Society. He is the father of two grown children and has four grandsons. To learn more about the author, visit his website at http: //www.jrlindermuth.net
