Anthracite Country
| Author | : Jay Parini |
| Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
| Total Pages | : 88 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Anthracite Country
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Anthracite Roots
| Author | : Joseph W. Leonard |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781596290501 |
"By sharing the experiences, triumphs and tragedies of my own family, in this book I provide a personal look at what life was like in the early coal-mining industry and how that industry has evolved and improved to become one of America's most important industries."--Page 12.
Remembering Lattimer
| Author | : Paul A. Shackel |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 235 |
| Release | : 2018-09-19 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0252050738 |
On September 10, 1897, a group of 400 striking coal miners--workers of Polish, Slovak, and Lithuanian descent or origin--marched on Lattimer, Pennsylvania. There, law enforcement officers fired without warning into the protesters, killing nineteen miners and wounding thirty-eight others. The bloody day quickly faded into history. Paul A. Shackel confronts the legacies and lessons of the Lattimer event. Beginning with a dramatic retelling of the incident, Shackel traces how the violence, and the acquittal of the deputies who perpetrated it, spurred membership in the United Mine Workers. By blending archival and archaeological research with interviews, he weighs how the people living in the region remember--and forget--what happened. Now in positions of power, the descendants of the slain miners have themselves become rabidly anti-union and anti-immigrant as Dominicans and other Latinos change the community. Shackel shows how the social, economic, and political circumstances surrounding historic Lattimer connect in profound ways to the riven communities of today. Compelling and timely, Remembering Lattimer restores an American tragedy to our public memory.
Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region
| Author | : John Stuart Richards |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780738509785 |
Four distinct anthracite coal fields encompass an area of 1,700 square miles in the northeastern portion of Pennsylvania. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, underground coal mining was at its zenith and the work of miners was more grueling and dangerous than it is today. Faces blackened by coal and helmet lamps lit by fire are no longer parts of the everyday lives of miners in the region. Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region is a journey into a world that was once very familiar. These vintage photographs of collieries, breakers, miners, drivers, and breaker boys illuminate the dark of the anthracite mines. The pictures of miners, roof falls, mules, and equipment deep underground tell the story of the hard lives lived around the hard coal. Above ground, breaker boys toiled in unbearable conditions inside the noisy, vibrating, soot-filled monsters known as coal breakers.
Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880–2000
| Author | : Karol K. Weaver |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 189 |
| Release | : 2015-10-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0271068175 |
While much has been written about immigrant traditions, music, food culture, folklore, and other aspects of ethnic identity, little attention has been given to the study of medical culture, until now. In Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Region, 1880–2000, Karol Weaver employs an impressive range of primary sources, including folk songs, patent medicine advertisements, oral history interviews, ghost stories, and jokes, to show how the men and women of the anthracite coal region crafted their gender and ethnic identities via the medical decisions they made. Weaver examines communities’ relationships with both biomedically trained physicians and informally trained medical caregivers, and how these relationships reflected a sense of “Americanness.” She uses interviews and oral histories to help tell the story of neighborhood healers, midwives, Pennsylvania German powwowers, medical self-help, and the eventual transition to modern-day medicine. Weaver is able to show not only how each of these methods of healing was shaped by its patrons and their backgrounds but also how it helped mold the identities of the new Americans who sought it out.
Minstrels of the Mine Patch
| Author | : George Gershon Korson |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2017-01-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1512817376 |
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
The Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Industry, 1860-1902
| Author | : Richard G. Healey |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 560 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
Introduction -- Recurrent and non-recurrent economic fluctuations at the national level -- Constraints on business decision-making-the impact of geology, topography and mining technology -- Prior investment in mining and transportation infrastructure -- Railroad expansion and corporate control -- Network development strategies and the articulation of the anthracite distribution region in interior markets -- Railroad expansion and corporate control II: tidewater markets, trunk line connections and comparative economic performance -- Waxing and waning markets I: sectoral shifts in the use of anthracite -- Waxing and waning markets II: the changing geography of market power -- Waxing and waning markets III : regional shifts, price behaviour and the changing size -- Composition of anthracite production -- Corporations, competition and the rise of the cartels I : precursors and pre-disposing factors to industry-wide combination -- Corporations, competition and the rise of the cartels II: the 1873 combination and its successors -- Developing and managing the coal estate -- Region building I: financing development in the mining economy -- Region building II: investment in new mining and railroad capacity -- Regional retrenchment: rationalization and reorganisation in the Schuylkill region 1872-1902 -- Regional dynamics, disequilibrium tendencies and regional economic development -- Notes for chapters 1-16 -- Preface to bibliography.
Growing Up in Coal Country
| Author | : Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780395979143 |
Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
John O'Hara's Anthracite Region
| Author | : Pamela MacArthur |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780738503417 |
John Henry O'Hara, the American author from Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, was so engrossed by the coal-rich "Anthracite Region" that he wrote about it in his professional work and personal correspondence for most of his life. The history, geography, and society of the area, particularly within a thirty-mile radius of Pottsville, were put under a microscope throughout O'Hara's career. John O'Hara's Anthracite Region covers the exciting period from the 1880s to 1945 in the coal region of Pennsylvania. John Henry O'Hara investigated, studied, and recorded the most intimate aspects of the upper class of his "Pennsylvania Protectorate" from his first novel, Appointment in Samarra, onwards. From the "Aristocrats'" escape to Eagles Mere, Sullivan County to the amusement parks such as Tumbling Run and Marlin Park in the "Anthracite Region," O'Hara captured every detail of the upper class's way of life. The social enclaves such as The Out Door Club, The Pottsville Club, and The Schuylkill Country Club did not escape O'Hara's pen in such novels as Ten North Frederick and The Lockwood Concern. These places, the people, and their fashionable attire, automobiles, houses, and schools are all captured within this unique photographic layout of O'Hara's work that wonderfully re-creates the history of this region.
Coalcracker Culture
| Author | : Harold W. Aurand |
| Publisher | : Susquehanna University Press |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9781575910642 |
The knowledge that they traded their lives for a job generated an overarching fear of losing their income."--BOOK JACKET.
