Coal mines and mining
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Dick and Elizabeth Salus Local History Collection
Collection — Legal Size 1
Identifier: 50-06-001
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of photographs, postcards, ephemera, newspaper clippings, and correspondence documenting the history of Wilkes-Barre and the Wyoming Valley, especially mining history and area architecture and buildings.
Dates:
Created: 1874-1996; Other: Date acquired: 11/10/2016
Item 2: Wood Engraving titled, “Baltimore Company’s Coal-mine,” unknown artist (removed to Print Box #5), c. 1843
Item — Box 21, Folder: 2
Dates:
Created: c. 1843
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]
Item 28: Newspaper clippings on the coal industry, railroads, and future of coal (removed to Legal Box #2) , 1954 June 13
Item — Box 15, Folder: 37
Dates:
Created: 1954 June 13
Item 30: Lithograph of the Planes of the Hazleton Coal Co., by James Queen, after an Ambrotype of H. P. Osborne, 1860
Item — Box 21, Folder: 30
Item 39: A Lithograph entitled, “Coal Mine at Mauch Chunk,” by [Cephas Grier Childs and Richard H. Hobson], after an Aquatint by George Lehman (removed to Black Box #1), originally published [ca. 1829], [ca. 1837]
Item — Box 21, Folder: 39
Dates:
Created: originally published [ca. 1829], [ca. 1837]
Item 42: Engraving titled, “View of the Chute at Mauch Chunk,” by Amos Doolittle, no date
Item — Box 21, Folder: 42
Dates:
Created: no date
Item 57: Lithograph titled, “Smith’s Coal-Mine,” unknown artist, no date
Item — Box 21, Folder: 57
Dates:
Created: no date
Item 174: Six Photographs by Unknown, [no date], of Drawings and Maps of Mauch Chunk Coal region by [Charles Alexandre Leseueur. R. G. Vail], ca.1829, 1834
Item — Box 21, Folder: 174
Dates:
Created: ca.1829, 1834
Item 223: Photograph by Unknown, [1946 October], of an Oil Painting titled, “The Harvey Breaker West Nanticoke,” by Thomas Hill, 1870, Photographed October 1946
Item — Box 22, Folder: 46
Dates:
Created: 1870, Photographed October 1946