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Lykens Valley Coal Company – Short Mountain Colliery Breaker, Side View with Breaker Boys

An undated side view of the Short Mountain Colliery Breaker from an old picture post card.  This was the fourth and final breaker of the Lykens Valley Coal Company at […]

December 9, 2016
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Lykens Valley Coal Company – Loaded Coal Train, 1920

A photograph of a train of loaded coal cars adjacent to the shaft of the Short Mountain Colliery of the Lykens Valley Coal Company, Bear Gap, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, about […]

December 8, 2016
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Lykens Valley Coal Company – Sinking of the Shaft, 1912

An old picture post card view of the sinking of the shaft in 1912 at the Lykens Valley Coal Company, Bear Gap, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The wooden structure at left […]

December 8, 2016
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Lykens Valley Coal Company – Shaft Construction, 1912-1915

An old picture post card aerial view of the operations of the Lykens Valley Coal Company at Bear Gap, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, sometime between 1912 and 1915. The wooden structure […]

December 8, 2016
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Lykens Valley Coal Company – Steel Shaft Completed, 1915

A photograph of the steel structure for the mine shaft of the Lykens Valley Coal Company, Bear Gap, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, as it appeared on 20 July 1915.  The engines […]

December 8, 2016
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Lykens Valley Coal Company – Shaft Engines, 1915

A photograph of four shaft engines (or motors) that were used to move the two elevators up and down the Short Mountain Colliery Shaft of the Lykens Valley Coal Company, […]

December 8, 2016
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Lykens Valley Coal Company – Steel Shaft and Engine House, 1916

A photograph of the completed steel shaft and engine house of the Short Mountain Colliery of the Lykens Valley Coal Company, Bear Gap, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, taken about 1915. The […]

December 8, 2016
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Lykens Valley Coal Company – The Black Mariah

An undated photograph of the hearse of the Lykens Valley Coal Company, Bear Gap, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.  This vehicle was also known as “the Black Mariah.”  It was only used […]

December 7, 2016

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