Item 24: Lithograph of the East Sugar Loaf Mines by Edward Valois and Charles Currier (removed to Black Box #1), [1840s-1869]
Item — Box: 21, Folder: 24
Dates
- Created: [1840s-1869]
Creator
- Valois, Edward, active 1840–69 (Person)
Access:
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Lithograph
Condition Note:
Okay.
Measurements:
9 ⅛ in. x 5 ¾ in.
Title:
No. 1, Colliery, East Sugar Loaf Mines, Stockton.
Description:
This is a lithograph of the Sugar Loaf mines at Stockton. There are some buildings that seem to be houses, coal breakers, what seems to be the entrance to the mine itself, and horses carting various things around. A train carrying coal moves through the area.
The Sugar Loaf Mines were located in Hazel township, operated by A. Pardee & Co. at the site of the Diamond City Coal Company. It consisted of two slopes and one breaker. More information about the report of the Sugar Loaf Mines can be found on Google Books.
The ground opened up on December 18, 1869 at five in the morning in Stockton, Pennsylvania. The mineshaft had collapsed and swallowed three houses forty feet down. This particular mineshaft was part of the East Sugar Loaf Mines. This mine disaster claimed the lives of the Rough and Swank families. More information on this topic can be found on the Pennsylvania Rambler and Wynning History website.
This print was created by Edward Valois and Charles Currier. Edward Valois was born in 1820 and was a lithographer based in New York City in the 1840s through the 1860s and was still in business with another artist, G.W. Fasel in the 1860s. He died in 1903. More work by Valois can be found on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Charles Currier was an American artist possibly from Roxbury, Massachusetts and was born in 1818. He died in 1887 in Brooklyn, New York.
Location:
Stockton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
Transcription:
{annotations}
50,000 tons per year
Coal
3. E. & Parker(?) & Ca’s(?)
1160.
Luzerne Co. Pa.
{print} E. Valois lith. C. Currier’s Lith NY. No 1, COLLIERY, EAST SUGAR LOAF MINES, STOCKTON.
{print} E. Valois lith. C. Currier’s Lith NY. No 1, COLLIERY, EAST SUGAR LOAF MINES, STOCKTON.
Creator
- Valois, Edward, active 1840–69 (Person)
- Currier, Charles, 1818-1887 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
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570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu