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...
Williamson WV-Some three thousand coal cars, all empty, await termination of the coal strike at Williamson WV, center of one of the nation's richest bituminous coal fields. Loaded, these cars would hold approximately 150,000 tons of coal....
Caption: "This piece of Treading Anthracite weighs more than a ton. An inspector of the Philadelphia Reading Coal and Iron Company found that it contained no particles of rock or other impurities."
Caption: "A Rich vein of coal exposed at a working place in a Reading Anthracite Mine. This coal seam is steeply pitched, following the contour of the mountains beneath which it has been buried for ages."
Caption: "Flexible conveyor velts carry newly mined coal for great distances underground. Motor driven apparatus provide many other forms of conveyance. The cables and drums shown in the picture operate a drag line which carries coal down from the...
Caption: "The Coal is shoveled onto a moving belt which carries it upward and dumps it into the mine car which may be seen in the background. The miner in the background is showing how the coal had to be shoveled by hand over the top of the car...
Caption: "Large pieces of rock or other impurities are pushed into the side chute to be dumped on the refuse bank and coal passes on for further cleaning and preparation."
Caption: "Lowering conveyors load railways cars with coal after it has been given its preliminary cleaning and sizing. These cars are sent to the central preparation plant a few miles away where the product is finally prepared for marker by the...
Caption: "The mammoth vein of the Anthracite measures comes to the surface in a great tilted slab, twenty-five to thirty feet thick, on the south slope of the Locust Mountain. A deep excavation which might contain a section of the Panama Canal has...
Caption: "A Colliery operation near Mt. Carmel, Pa., electrically equipped, and with high speed automatic machinery for dumping coal cars into the cleaner plant at the left."
Caption: "Pure Coal is lighter--slate and bone are heavier than the agitated mixture of sand and water in the cone. The coal floats and is washed over the lip of the cone. Impurities sink and are trapped out through the bottom."
Caption: "THis miner is using a Pneumatic Drill to bore into the face of the coal. Powder charges are place in the holes and exploded, breaking the coal into lumps for transportation to the surface. The miner's safety lamp is hung on a nail above...
Two grades of Black Band coal, loaded and ready for shipment; the first car being of the highest grade Black Band lump coal and the second 4-inch run-of-mine. West Virginia.
