Query: Pennsylvania -- Anthracite coal industry
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company Records
Creators:
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Dates:
1866-1927
Size:
17 Cubic feet (52 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0282
Repository:
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 the company's …

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Girard Estate Records
Creators:
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Millington, W.P.
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
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Dates:
1790-1964
Size:
5 Cubic feet (16 boxes, 1 map-folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1011
Repository:
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 …

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Lehigh Valley Coal Company Records
Creators:
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Dates:
1864-1865, and undated.
Size:
0.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1106
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Company records, including specifications, drawings and plans, photographs, and other miscellaneous archival material.

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Swatara Railroad Papers
Creators:
Swatara Railroad Company
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Agriculture
Donaldson, William
Swatara and Good Spring Railroad
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Dates:
1805-1894.
Size:
1 Cubic foot (3 vertical boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0272
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Documents relating to the business of the Swatara Railroad Company of Danville, Pennsylvania and particularly of its president, "Judge" William Donaldson. Includes receipts, bills, contracts, operating statistics, financial statements and correspondence, filed chronologically by year.

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Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company Records
Creators:
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
Dates:
1815-1966
Size:
72 Cubic feet (245 boxes, 1 map folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0071
Repository:
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 included …

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Hammond Coal Company Records
Creators:
Hammond Coal Company.
Dates:
1937-1954.
Size:
3 Cubic feet (12 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1003
Repository:
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 to labor union relations.

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Coxe Brothers Collection
Creators:
Coxe Brothers and Company, Inc. (Drifton, Pennsylvania)
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of History of Technology
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Extractive Industries
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Dates:
1830-1997
Size:
100 Cubic feet (55 boxes, 107 map folders )
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1002
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Collection documents the Coxe Brothers and Company Inc., an anthracite coal producer in Pennsylvania.

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Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company Records
Creators:
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.
Dates:
1860-1936
Size:
18 Cubic feet (78 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0208
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Collection of engineering reports and correspondence from the Engineering Department of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad was most used for the transportation of anthracite coal within Pennsylvania from 1833 through the early 1970s.

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Sharpe, Weiss and Company Papers
Creators:
Sharpe, Weiss and Company
Dates:
1856-1889
Size:
4.75 Cubic feet (13 boxes, 1 map folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0399
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Invoices and letters from merchants and manufacturers with whom Sharpe, Weiss and Company, and their successors, did business; and two reels of microfilm of Sharpe and Weiss's account books.

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Lehigh Valley Railroad Records
Creators:
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Dates:
1860-1940
Size:
3.25 Cubic feet (7 boxes, 1 map-folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1046
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Papers and photographs documenting the Lehigh Valley Railroad.

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