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Book Publications of the Historical Society of Schuylkill County

Download or read book Publications of the Historical Society of Schuylkill County written by Historical Society of Schuylkill County and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications of the Historical Society of Schuylkill County

Download or read book Publications of the Historical Society of Schuylkill County written by Historical Society of Schuylkill County and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications of the Historical Society of Schuylkill County  Volume 1

Download or read book Publications of the Historical Society of Schuylkill County Volume 1 written by Historical Society of Schuylkill County and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publications of the Historical Society of Schuylkill County offer a treasure trove of information about the history of this fascinating region. From biographical sketches of notable residents to detailed histories of local towns and industries, these volumes are an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history of Schuylkill County and its residents. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Publications of the Historical Society of Schuylkill County  3

Download or read book Publications of the Historical Society of Schuylkill County 3 written by Historical Society of Schuylkill County and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of historical essays, articles, and records provides a fascinating glimpse into the social, economic, and cultural history of the Pennsylvania county of Schuylkill. The Historical Society of Schuylkill County, which was founded in 1903, has compiled a wealth of archival material on the region, including diaries, letters, maps, photographs, and newspapers. The book covers a wide range of topics, from early settlement to coal mining, from transportation to military history, and is illustrated with historical photographs and documents. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Publications of the Historical Society of Schuylkill County

Download or read book Publications of the Historical Society of Schuylkill County written by Historical Society of Schuylkill County and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-12-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Publications of the Historical Society of Schuylkill County

Download or read book Publications of the Historical Society of Schuylkill County written by Historical Society of Schuylkill County and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book History of Schuylkill County  Pennsylvania

Download or read book History of Schuylkill County Pennsylvania written by Adolf W. Schalck and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications Of The Historical Society Of Schuylkill County  Volume 4

Download or read book Publications Of The Historical Society Of Schuylkill County Volume 4 written by Historical Society of Schuylkill County and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publications by the historical society of Schuylkill County. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Yearbook

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  • Author : Pennsylvania Federation of Historical Societies
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1908
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Yearbook written by Pennsylvania Federation of Historical Societies and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publication

Download or read book Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Southern Schuylkill County

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  • Author : Jennifer L. Bowen-Frantz
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 1998-02-01
  • ISBN : 9780738590301
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Southern Schuylkill County written by Jennifer L. Bowen-Frantz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Schuylkill County is one of rich culture, strong heritage, and the triumph of human spirit. The boroughs and towns of Southern Schuylkill County contributed formidably to the development and progress of the entire county, from its first tiny settlements to the explosion of the Industrial Revolution. This unique collection of photographs reveals a portion of Schuylkill County that is often overlooked, but definitely not forgotten. The story of Southern Schuylkill County is also the story of small-town America: the development of culture, transportation, education, agriculture, and industrial progress detailed on these pages symbolizes the determination and spirit upon which this country was built. Those who dared to dream forged ahead and built the railroads, canals, schools, and churches that transformed settlements into "communities." From Orwigsburg, the county's first seat of government, to Port Clinton, with its history deeply rooted in transportation, this collection provides an opportunity for people of all ages to relive an incredible era of historical accomplishments and personal achievements.

Book Along the Schuylkill River

Download or read book Along the Schuylkill River written by Laura Catalano and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Schuylkill River got its name, meaning "hidden river," from Dutch settlers who discovered its mouth sequestered behind the Delaware River's League Island. It later became a river of revolutions. Along its banks Revolutionary War battles were fought, and George Washington's army famously camped at Valley Forge. Later the river helped fuel the Industrial Revolution with coal from Schuylkill County shipped to Philadelphia via the Schuylkill Canal. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad began here and grew into the largest corporation in the world. The iron and steel industry flourished along its waters. The Schuylkill River Desilting Project of the 1950s was the first large-scale cleanup of its kind and helped usher in an environmental revolution. The nation's first public water supply was developed here, and its first zoo and university overlook the river.

Book St  Clair

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  • Author : Anthony Wallace
  • Publisher : Knopf
  • Release : 2012-09-19
  • ISBN : 0307826104
  • Pages : 780 pages

Download or read book St Clair written by Anthony Wallace and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located near the southern edge of the Pennsylvania anthracite, the town of St. Clair in the early half of the 19th century seemed to be perfectly situated to provide fuel to the iron and steel industry that was the heart of the Industrial Revolution in America. It was a time of unprecedented promise and possibility for the region, and yet, in the years between 1830 and 1880, only grandiose illusions flourished there. St. Clair itself succumbed early on to a devastating economic blight, one that would in time affect anthracite mining everywhere. In this dramatic work of social history, Anthony F. C. Wallace re-creates St. Clair in those years when expectations collided with reality, when the coal trade was in chronic distress, exacerbated by the epic battles between the forces of labor and capital. As he did in his Bancroft Prize-winning Rockdale, Wallace uses public records and private papers to reconstruct the operation of an anthracite colliery and the life of a working-man’s town totally dependent upon it. He describes the labor hierarchy of the collieries, the communal spirit that sprang up in the outlying mine patches, the polyglot immigrant life in the taverns and churchs, and the workingmen’s societies that provided identity to the miners and gave relief to families in distress. He examines the birth of the first effective miners’ union and documents the escalating antagonism between Irish immigrant workers—mostly Catholic—and the Protestant middle classes who owned the collieries. Wallace reveals the blindness, greed, and self-congratulation of the mine owners and operators. These “heroes” of the entrepreneurial wars disregarded geologists’ warnings that the coal seams south of St. Clair were virtually inaccessible and, at best, extremely costly to mine, and then blamed their economic woes on the lack of a high tariff on imported British iron. To cut costs, they ignored the most basic and safety engineering practices and then blamed “the careless miner” and “Irish hooligans” for the catastrophic accidents that resulted. In thrall to a great dream of wealth and power, they plunged ahead to bankruptcy while the miners paid with their lives. St. Clair is a rich and illuminating work of scholarship—an engrossing portrait of a disaster-prone industry (a portrait that stands as a sober warning to the nuclear-power industry) and of the tragic hubris of a ruling class that brough ruin upon a Pennsylvania coal town at a crucial moment in its history.

Book The Genteel John O Hara

Download or read book The Genteel John O Hara written by Pamela Carol Mac Arthur and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writer John O'Hara (1905-1970) came from Pottsville in Pennsylvania. He put his home town and the surrounding vicinity under a microscope to produce an account of 'The Anthracite Region' that rivals Edith Wharton's descriptions of New York and Sinclair Lewis's anatomy of Sauk Centre. With the discerning eye of a local resident, O'Hara recreated this coal-rich region and its people so well that his novelettes, novellas, novels, plays and short stories give a true record of his 'Pennsylvania Protectorate' in the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. In order to reveal the ethnographical, geographical and historical authenticity of the O'Hara Canon, this book examines his writings in the context of Pottsville and the borough of Tamaqua, as well as the nearby towns and villages. The author also investigates both O'Hara's genteel upbringing and his gangster stratum. The book explores the many dimensions of O'Hara's life from the time of his birth until his escape to New York City in 1928. New sources such as unpublished letters and interviews with O'Hara's family, friends and enemies provide important insights into O'Hara, as well as into Pottsville and the surrounding region.

Book The Pennsylvania German

Download or read book The Pennsylvania German written by Philip Columbus Croll and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: