Coal Castles – Glendower Colliery (1856-1915)
A 1905 photograph of the winning first aid team from the Glendower Colliery. Competition meets were held among collieries to determine who had the best first aid team. From a […]
A 1905 photograph of the winning first aid team from the Glendower Colliery. Competition meets were held among collieries to determine who had the best first aid team. From a […]
An original copy of the Miners’ Anthracite Certificate for Milton Oliver Umholtz (1881-1938) of Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. No. 2500. Act of July 15, 1897. Certificate of Competency. To Whom […]
An interior view from around 1900 of an early wood coal breaker. By 1910, all wood breakers in the coal region had been replaced by steel breakers. From a series […]
A photograph taken about 1930 of the Tunnel Ridge Colliery at right and at left a part of Mahanoy City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, including a church steeple at left. From […]
An undated photograph of the St. Nicholas Colliery Breaker, located between the villages of Wiggans and St. Nicholas, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. From a series of articles that appeared in the Pottsville […]
A group of six miners pictured at the No. 2 slope entrance of the Big Mountain Colliery, located just south of Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. From a series of articles […]
The Bast Colliery Breaker, pictured here in a photo taken around 1920, was located near Big Mine Run Creek in Butler Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. From a series of articles […]
A mine shaft worker is pictured a work at the Thomaston Colliery about 1900. From a series of articles that appeared in the Pottsville Republican and Herald in 1997: The Thomaston Colliery […]