Author: Marion M. Piccolomini
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467104175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Southwestern Pennsylvania has a strong history in the coal, coke, and steel industries that helped shape the region in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Existing communities expanded, and new towns were built by mining companies. The available jobs attracted people from around the United States and the world, creating a melting pot of different cultures, ethnicities, and beliefs.
Southwestern Pennsylvania's Coal Region
Author: Marion M. Piccolomini
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467104175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Southwestern Pennsylvania has a strong history in the coal, coke, and steel industries that helped shape the region in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Existing communities expanded, and new towns were built by mining companies. The available jobs attracted people from around the United States and the world, creating a melting pot of different cultures, ethnicities, and beliefs.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467104175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Southwestern Pennsylvania has a strong history in the coal, coke, and steel industries that helped shape the region in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Existing communities expanded, and new towns were built by mining companies. The available jobs attracted people from around the United States and the world, creating a melting pot of different cultures, ethnicities, and beliefs.
Anthracite's Demise and the Post-coal Economy of Northeastern Pennsylvania
Author: Thomas J. Keil
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781611461756
Category : Anthracite coal industry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book focuses on the development and demise of the anthracite industry in northeastern Pennsylvania. It also examines attempts to secure replacement industries and the economic consequences of these actions.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781611461756
Category : Anthracite coal industry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book focuses on the development and demise of the anthracite industry in northeastern Pennsylvania. It also examines attempts to secure replacement industries and the economic consequences of these actions.
The Coal-regions of America
Author: James Macfarlane
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
A Legacy of Coal
Author: Margaret M. Mulrooney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Pennsylvania in Public Memory
Author: Carolyn Kitch
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027106885X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
What stories do we tell about America’s once-great industries at a time when they are fading from the landscape? Pennsylvania in Public Memory attempts to answer that question, exploring the emergence of a heritage culture of industry and its loss through the lens of its most representative industrial state. Based on news coverage, interviews, and more than two hundred heritage sites, this book traces the narrative themes that shape modern public memory of coal, steel, railroading, lumber, oil, and agriculture, and that collectively tell a story about national as well as local identity in a changing social and economic world.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027106885X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
What stories do we tell about America’s once-great industries at a time when they are fading from the landscape? Pennsylvania in Public Memory attempts to answer that question, exploring the emergence of a heritage culture of industry and its loss through the lens of its most representative industrial state. Based on news coverage, interviews, and more than two hundred heritage sites, this book traces the narrative themes that shape modern public memory of coal, steel, railroading, lumber, oil, and agriculture, and that collectively tell a story about national as well as local identity in a changing social and economic world.
Chorus and Community
Author: Karen Ahlquist
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252072847
Category : Choral singing
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Looks at choruses not only as a source of music, but as organizations that come together for aesthetic, social, political, and religious purposes. This volume discusses groups, including an East African chorus; groups from 19th century England, Germany, and America; early twentieth-century Russian Menonites; Soviet workers' clubs; and more.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252072847
Category : Choral singing
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Looks at choruses not only as a source of music, but as organizations that come together for aesthetic, social, political, and religious purposes. This volume discusses groups, including an East African chorus; groups from 19th century England, Germany, and America; early twentieth-century Russian Menonites; Soviet workers' clubs; and more.
Coal-bearing Upper Pennsylvanian and Lower Permian Rocks, Washington Area, Pennsylvania
Author: Henry Lee Berryhill (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
COAL REGIONS OF AMERICA
Author: JAMES MACFARLANE. A.M.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description