Hegins Township – Outing at a Mine Entrance
An undated photograph of an outing near a mine entrance somewhere in the Hegins Township area of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Pictured are: Front (standing on car): Elora [Shadle] Coleman. Back […]
Tower City – East Brookside Colliery Slope Entrance
An undated colorized photo post card view of the slope entrance of the East Brookside Colliery, near Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. _____________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added […]
Pottsville – Coal Street Railroad Station, 1886 (2)
A photograph from about 1886 of coal operation along Pottsville’s Coal Street, now Route 61, at left, which includes the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company shops and the […]
Coal Mine Fires
On 15 February 1907, the Wilkes-Barre Record re-published an article on coal mine fires by R. V. Norris that had appeared in the Engineer and Mining Journal. The article described […]
Pottsville – Coal Street Railroad Station, 1886
A photograph from 9 August 1886 of the new railroad station on Coal Street, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The shops of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company are […]
Charles G. Riegle (1876-1913) – Killed at Short Mountain Colliery
CHARLES G. REIGLE KILLED LIFE CRUSHED OUT BY FALL OF TOP AT SHORT MOUNTAIN MINES Funeral Saturday Morning at 9 o’clock – Burial at Gratz Charles G. Reigle [Riegle] of […]
Mount Carbon Railroad Station Platform, 1880s
A photograph from the 1880s of the platform of the Mount Carbon, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, railroad station, on which a group of executives of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and […]
Valley View – Leon E. Kocher Coal Company, 1956
A 1956 advertisement for the Leon E. Kocher Coal Company, Valley View, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. LEON E. KOCHER COAL COMPANY Deep Mined, Cone Cleaned Coal TELEPHONE Valley View 100 —– […]