Author: United States. Department of the Interior. Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cambria County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Site Plan, Interpretive Prospectus, Design Guidelines Windber/Scalp Level Coal Heritage Project, America's Industrial Heritage Project, Windber and Scalp Level Boroughs
Author: United States. Department of the Interior. Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cambria County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Happy Cooker Cookbook
Author: Iris NathanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780967573304
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Johnstown Trolleys and Incline
Author: Kenneth C. SpringirthPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439618097
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Johnstown flood on May 31, 1889, virtually demolished the horsecar lines of the Johnstown Passenger Railway Company, resulting in the system being rebuilt with electric trolley cars. Johnstown Trolleys and Incline covers the history of the trolley car system, trackless trolleys, and the Johnstown Inclined Plane. Johnstown was the last small city in the United States to operate a variety of vintage and modern trolley cars along with trackless trolleys. The Johnstown incline played a key role in transporting residents to higher ground in the devastating floods of 1936 and 1977. Ridership declined with the coming of the automobile and the changing industrial scene in the region. Rail enthusiasts from all parts of the country came to Johnstown on its last day of trolley service in 1960, and the last runs are fully illustrated in these vintage photographs.
What the Coal Commission Found
Author: Edward Eyre HuntPublisher:
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Category : Coal-miners
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Black Coal Miners in America
Author: Ronald L. LewisPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813150442
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
From the early day of mining in colonial Virginia and Maryland up to the time of World War II, blacks were an important part of the labor force in the coal industry. Yet in this, as in other enterprises, their role has heretofore been largely ignored. Now Roland L. Lewis redresses the balance in this comprehensive history of black coal miners in America. The experience of blacks in the industry has varied widely over time and by region, and the approach of this study is therefore more comparative than chronological. Its aim is to define the patterns of race relations that prevailed among the miners. Using this approach, Lewis finds five distractive systems of race relations. There was in the South before and after the Civil War a system of slavery and convict labor -- an enforced servitude without legal compensation. This was succeeded by an exploitative system whereby the southern coal operators, using race as an excuse, paid lower wages to blacks and thus succeeded in depressing the entire wage scale. By contrast, in northern and midwestern mines, the pattern was to exclude blacks from the industry so that whites could control their jobs and their communities. In the central Appalachians, although blacks enjoyed greater social equality, the mine operators manipulated racial tensions to keep the work force divided and therefore weak. Finally, with the advent of mechanization, black laborers were displaced from the mines to such an extent that their presence in the coal fields in now nearly a thing of the past. By analyzing the ways race, class, and community shaped social relations in the coal fields, Black Coal Miners in America makes a major contribution to the understanding of regional, labor, social, and African-American history.
Hard Places
Author: Richard V. FrancavigliaPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587290707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Working with the premise that there are much meaning and value in the "repelling beauty" of mining landscapes, Richard Francaviglia identifies the visual clues that indicate an area has been mined and tells us how to read them, showing the interconnections among all of America's major mining districts. With a style as bold as the landscape he reads and with photographs to match, he interprets the major forces that have shaped the architecture, design, and topography of mining areas. Covering many different types of mining and mining locations, he concludes that mining landscapes have come to symbolize the turmoil between what our society elects to view as two opposing forces: culture and nature.
Proposed Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Nebraska
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Agate Fossil Beds National Monument (Neb.)
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
What's a Coal Miner to Do?
Author: Keith DixPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 9780822935858
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
For more than one hundred years, until the 1920s, coal production involved blasting a seam of coal and loading it by had into a mine car. In the late 1920s, operators introduced machines into the mines, including the coal loader. In this book, Keith Dix explores the impact of technology on miners and operators during a crucial period in industrial history. Dix reconstructs the social, political, technical and economic environment of the “hand-loading” era and then views the evolution of mechanical coal technology, including the inventions of Joseph Joy. He also examines the rise of the United Mine Workers under John L. Lewis, and the expanded role of the state under New Deal legislation and regulations.
In Our Blood
Author: Matt WittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
With Rod and Transit
Author: James Birtley McNairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description