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Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Consolidation Coal Company
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1885-1940s
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23 Cubic feet (99 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1007
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the building, operation and daily life of coal mining communities in Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio between 1911 and 1946. The collection is a valuable for the study of mining technology and the social conditions of the time period and regions.
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Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company Records
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Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
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1815-1966
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72 Cubic feet (245 boxes, 1 map folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0071
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of records primarily of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. Additionally, there are records of the Lehigh Navigation Coal Company and subsidiary companies including the Alliance Coal Mining Company. These records mostly describe anthracite mining in the vicinity of Mauch Chuck and Summit Hill, Pennsylvania. Also include...
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Lehigh Valley Coal Company
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1864-1865, and undated.
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0.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1106
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Company records, including specifications, drawings and plans, photographs, and other miscellaneous archival material.
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Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
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1866-1927
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17 Cubic feet (52 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0282
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of approximately seventeen cubic feet of records of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company, dating from the period 1866-1927. The bulk of the collection comprises 124 letterpress copybooks from the company's Engineering Department. These contain letters and reports sent by engineers located at the major centers of ...
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1832-1959
undated
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1.94 Cubic feet (consisting of 4 boxes, 2 folders, 4 oversize folders, 1 map case folder.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Coal
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Coal forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Alabama Mining Institute
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undated.
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1004
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Two volumes of photographs, plus negatives, of mining villages in Alabama, featuring company commissaries, hospitals, dining halls, boarding houses, schools, and recreational facilities. The photographs are captioned as to which facilities were for white employees and which for "colored" employees. Companies documented include the Woodward Iron Com...
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Bay State Gas Company.
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1858-1929
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0.75 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1049
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers document an investigation by M.L. Webb, an attorney from Massachusetts, into possible trust violations by the coal and gas industry of New England, New Jersey, and Delaware in the late nineteenth century. Documents assembled by Webb include patents, stock records, photographs, correspondence, hand written notes, published materials, and investigation notebooks.
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Hammond Coal Company.
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1937-1954.
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3 Cubic feet (12 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1003
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the business activities of the Hammond Coal Company. It includes correspondence, "bootleg" registrations, reports on mine inspections, equipment inventories, grievances, financial records, production reports, contracts, employee information, accident and injury reports, and payroll ledgers. Also included are papers relating...
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Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Millington, W.P.
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
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1790-1964
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5 Cubic feet (16 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1011
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Records include voluminous correspondence, much of it to or from W.P. Millington, Secretary of the Estate; with the Lehigh Valley Coal Company and Lehigh Valley Railroad Company; and with the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. Also reports, including annual reports, reports by the Mining Engineer, and reports on visits by trustees; app...
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Coale, Griffith Baily, 1890-
- Dates:
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1897-1945
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6,000 Items ((on 6 microfilm reels))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.coalgrif
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Archives of American Art
Biographical and genealogical material; family correspondence; files kept while a Navy artist during World War II; writings; sketchbooks; calendars and record books, 1926-1945; correspondence, printed material, and photographs regarding mural commissions; correspondence and printed material regarding exhibitions, lectures, publications and organiza...
