The records consist of photocopies of miscellaneous documents of the Empire Steel and Iron Company, the originals of which are in the possession of the National Canal Museum at Easton, Pa. Most of them seem to have come from the Mount Hope site....
The album contains photographs taken during an inspection trip made by a party from the Coal Lands Securities Company to properties in West Virginia owned by the Lackawanna Coal and Lumber Company and the Highland Lumber Company. This trip was made...
Caption: "Huge elevators, known as "Cages" carry mine cars loaded with anthracite from the mine depths to the surface and return the empty cars to be reloaded. The "cages" serve five, six or seven levels in the mine--corresponding to floors of a...
A line of loaded mine cars awaiting their turn on the weighing machine preliminary to being dumped at the head house of the Reynolds tipple; and one of the Company's modern electric hauling locomotives returning the mine after bringing out a train...
Handwritten on back: "Hauling ore from the mine, which unfortunately belongs to former lessees. Two teams of eight horses each & two wagons each. Mexican drivers."
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Barrackville #41 mine, West Virginia. Under ground stables for the mine horses. Note: the photograph has no date but information obtained from the West Virginia State Archives states that a gas explosion on March 18,...
Caption: "Mine cars are automatically loaded by motor driven conveyor belts in mines of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. This scene is more than a thousand feet below the earth's surface at Burnside Colliery, near Samokin, Pa."
Caption: "Deep beneath the earth's surface is this rock hewn stable for mine mules. Electric locomotives are rapidly replacing hundreds of mules is the Reading Anthracite workings, but Jenny continues to be serviceable for many tasks in the mine...
Caption: "The mine cars which carry newly mined Reading Anthracite from the working places to the surface of preparation pass through these tracked tunnels beneath the surface. The gangways are maintained as carefully as is the way on any railroad."
Caption: "Steel and concrete structures replace timber props at many places in modernized mines of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. The high vaulted roofs reflecting the head lamps of passing trains of mine cars and the lights...
Originally called the Westmoreland Shaft Mine, it was located in Biddle, which is now a section of Westmoreland City in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The mine operated from ca. 1872 until 1955.
New tipple at the Reynolds Mine; a typical example of improvements being made by the Paint Creek Collieries Company in remodeling its coal operations. West Virginia.
Civil wars; Military facilities; Soldiers; Military officers; Forts & fortifications; Telegraph
Second Battle of Fort Wagner
Morris Island, South Carolina
Location also known as Battery Wagner. The remains of a Confederate land mine, or "torpedo" are seen in front of the soldiers at right.
Scene from a coal mine thousands of feet under a mountain in West Virginia, where W.E. Austin, movie cameraman for the Norfolk and western Railway, is shown taking what are believed to be the first color movies inside a mine. The shots were taken...
