Pennsylvania Profiles – The Ugliest Effects of Coal
The illustrated featured story on “Pennsylvania Profiles” from the Sunbury Daily Item, June 1, 1985, was about the exploitation of the people of the anthracite coal regions. Panel 1 – […]
Guy L. Miller – Killed at Independent Mine, 1960
GUY L. L. MILLER, JOLIETT, DIES UNDER COAL FALL AT INDEPENDENT MINE A 24-year-old Joliett man employed at an independent mining operation for only two days, was fatally injured Tuesday […]
Mine Rescue Vehicle Obtained by Independent Miners, 1960
A photograph of Clyde L. Machamer on the step of a rescue truck just obtained to be used in the rescue of miners. The photo was in the West Schuylkill […]
Pennsylvania Profiles – The Coal Mine Runner
A story of a little-known position in the anthracite coal mines, often held by a young man in the middle to late teens, A brief, illustrated history of the “coal […]
Tower City – A Winter View, 1900
A newspaper photograph of a 1900 birds-eye view of Tower City and the collieries on the mountain. The photo appeared in the West Schuylkill Herald, November 22, 1967, under the […]
Zerbe Gap – Franklin Breaker
An undated post card view of the Franklin Coal Breaker at Zerbe Gap, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Note the railroad tracts going in and out of the colliery, which connected to […]
Wiconisco – Birds-Eye View of Colliery
An undated newspaper birds-eye view of Wiconisco Township and the colliery in operation there. This was the Susquehanna Coal Company’s mine at Bear Gap, Lykens and Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. […]
John Workman – Killed in the Mines, 1871
The following article appeared in the Upper Dauphin Register in August 1871, and was reprinted in the Harrisburg Telegraph of August 14, 1871: UPPER END AFFAIRS — The Upper Dauphin […]