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Early Coal Mining In The Anthracite Region
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Book Synopsis Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region by : John Stuart Richards
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.
Book Synopsis A History of the Coal Miners of the United States by : Andrew Roy
Download or read book A History of the Coal Miners of the United States written by Andrew Roy and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Anthracite Roots by : Joseph W. Leonard
Download or read book Anthracite Roots written by Joseph W. Leonard and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By sharing the experiences, triumphs and tragedies of my own family, in this book I provide a personal look at what life was like in the early coal-mining industry and how that industry has evolved and improved to become one of America's most important industries."--Page 12.
Book Synopsis The Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Industry, 1860-1902 by : Richard G. Healey
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.
Book Synopsis The Face of Decline by : Thomas Dublin
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.
Book Synopsis Lost Coal Country of Northeastern Pennsylvania by : Lorena Beniquez
Download or read book Lost Coal Country of Northeastern Pennsylvania written by Lorena Beniquez and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost Coal Country of Northeastern Pennsylvania documents the region's disappearing anthracite history, which shaped the legacy of the United States of America and the industrial revolution. The coal mines, breakers, coal miners' homes, and railroads have all steadily disappeared. With only one coal breaker left in the entire state, it was time to record what would soon be lost. Unfortunately, one piece of history that persists is underground fires that ravage communities like Centralia. Blazing for over 50 years, the flames of Centralia will not be doused anytime soon. Images featured in the book include the St. Nicholas coal breaker, Huber coal breaker, Steamtown National Historic Site, Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour, Eckley Miners' Village, Centralia, and the Knox Mine disaster. A hybrid history book and travel guide, Lost Coal Country of Northeastern Pennsylvania is one final recounting of what is gone and what still remains.
Book Synopsis First Report of Progress in the Anthracite Coal Region by : Charles Albert Ashburner
Download or read book First Report of Progress in the Anthracite Coal Region written by Charles Albert Ashburner and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Anthracite Heritage Museum and Scranton Iron Furnaces by : Harold W. Aurand
Download or read book Anthracite Heritage Museum and Scranton Iron Furnaces written by Harold W. Aurand and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anthracite Heritage Museum focuses on the people, labour, and culture of coal mining and related industries in eastern Pennsylvania. The museum displays objects and images of the everyday life of coal miners and their families, including exhibits of household furnishings, religious artefacts, and work implements and machinery. Nearby Scranton Iron Furnaces, four stone blast furnace stacks built between 1848 and 1857 for the Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company, commemorate an industry that relied heavily on anthracite fuel and expanded as a result of it. Includes a tour of the museum and the furnaces.
Book Synopsis Digging Dusky Diamonds by : John Lindermuth
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
Book Synopsis First Report of Progress in the Anthracite Coal Region by : Charles Albert Ashburner
Download or read book First Report of Progress in the Anthracite Coal Region written by Charles Albert Ashburner and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Legislation for the Protection of Coal Miners in Pennsylvania, 1824-1915 by : Alexander Trachtenberg
Download or read book The History of Legislation for the Protection of Coal Miners in Pennsylvania, 1824-1915 written by Alexander Trachtenberg and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis First Report of Progress in the Anthracite Coal Region by : Charles Albert Ashburner
Download or read book First Report of Progress in the Anthracite Coal Region written by Charles Albert Ashburner and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coal written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-12-21 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coal will continue to provide a major portion of energy requirements in the United States for at least the next several decades. It is imperative that accurate information describing the amount, location, and quality of the coal resources and reserves be available to fulfill energy needs. It is also important that the United States extract its coal resources efficiently, safely, and in an environmentally responsible manner. A renewed focus on federal support for coal-related research, coordinated across agencies and with the active participation of the states and industrial sector, is a critical element for each of these requirements. Coal focuses on the research and development needs and priorities in the areas of coal resource and reserve assessments, coal mining and processing, transportation of coal and coal products, and coal utilization.
Book Synopsis Coalcracker Culture by : Harold W. Aurand
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.
Book Synopsis Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880–2000 by : Karol K. Weaver
Download or read book Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880–2000 written by Karol K. Weaver and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While much has been written about immigrant traditions, music, food culture, folklore, and other aspects of ethnic identity, little attention has been given to the study of medical culture, until now. In Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Region, 1880–2000, Karol Weaver employs an impressive range of primary sources, including folk songs, patent medicine advertisements, oral history interviews, ghost stories, and jokes, to show how the men and women of the anthracite coal region crafted their gender and ethnic identities via the medical decisions they made. Weaver examines communities’ relationships with both biomedically trained physicians and informally trained medical caregivers, and how these relationships reflected a sense of “Americanness.” She uses interviews and oral histories to help tell the story of neighborhood healers, midwives, Pennsylvania German powwowers, medical self-help, and the eventual transition to modern-day medicine. Weaver is able to show not only how each of these methods of healing was shaped by its patrons and their backgrounds but also how it helped mold the identities of the new Americans who sought it out.
Book Synopsis The Anthracite Coal Fields of Pennsylvania and Their Exhaustion by : Peter Wenrick Sheafer
Download or read book The Anthracite Coal Fields of Pennsylvania and Their Exhaustion written by Peter Wenrick Sheafer and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Before the United States Anthracite Coal Commission by : Anthracite Operators, Philadelphia
Download or read book Before the United States Anthracite Coal Commission written by Anthracite Operators, Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
