Woodward coal breakers, Kingston, Pennsylvania, shaft house
Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 011588. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
A clever forger. 19th century, Library of Congress collection
Photograph shows a blacksmith stirring coals to make fire rise in forge; horseshoes, nails and other equipment are on the walls, floor, and work area.
Modern steel plant along the Monongahela River, Pittsburg, Pennsylvani...
Boat at shore of river in foreground and coal cars in front of plant. H66569 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 6539.
A tipple, Gaston mine. Location: Fairmont, West Virginia
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 181. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More
Empire Coal & Coke Company, tipple and loading booms, Landgraff, West ...
Three coal cars being loaded by tipple and loading booms. U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps photo. Jeffrey, no. 3234-C.
A black and white photo of a group of people, possibly related to: Ala...
Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Negative has a hole punch made by FSA st... More
Miners starting home after work. Part of coal tipple shown at left. We...
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Coal mine tipple. Capels, West Virginia
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Loading a lake freighter with coal for shipment to other lake ports, S...
12002-15. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More
Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. Coal handling machines...
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Iron ore dock. Grain elevator and coal loading docks in background. Al...
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A black and white photo of a boat in the water. Great Depression FFSA ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a miner, coal mine, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Champion no. 1 coal cleaning plan...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Pittsburgh (vicinity), Pennsylvania. Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...
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Chicago, Illinois. One of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad "Chall...
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Milwaukee Western Fuel Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Coal docks at th...
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Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation. Detroit, Michigan...
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Fort Madison. Coal and sand chutes in the railway yard
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Gallup (vicinity), New Mexico. Gallup American Mining Company coal min...
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Steam locomotive and coal tender in on a roundhouse turntable in the t...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
Tipple Crew, (see photo #146) Turkey Knob Mine, Macdonald, West Virgin...
Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 150. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Nati... More
Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: Miscellany, circa 1846-1908; Newspaper clip...
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Port Covington Terminal, Coal Pier No. 4, Baltimore, Independent City,...
Significance: The Western Maryland Railway Port Covington Coal Pier is one of the last railroad coal unloading piers in Baltimore. During the Pier's operational life (1921-1974), it went from representing the ... More
East Broad Top Railroad & Coal Company, Roundhouse, State Route 994, W...
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Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, Coaling Station, Astride tracks west end T...
Significance: The station was equipped with type UL undercut gates with hooded aprons. The coaling aprons were properly counterweighted and had heavy hoods for deflecting the coal directly into the tender. Th... More
Holston Army Ammunition Plant, Producer Gas Plant, Kingsport, Sullivan...
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Holston Army Ammunition Plant, Producer Gas Plant, Kingsport, Sullivan...
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Union Trading Company Complex, Fort Davis, Jeff Davis County, TX
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: In 1874 Whittaker Keesey authorized his brother, Otis M., to build a house and corral near Fort Davis for trading in general merchandise and liquor. In ... More
Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...
Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More
Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...
Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More
Kaymoor Coal Mine, South side of New River, upstream of New River Gorg...
Significance: Kay Moor coal mine exhibits important examples of early 20th century mining technology. Its two extant inclines and headhouse are examples of specialized adaptations to mining coal from outcrops ... More
Kaymoor Coal Mine, South side of New River, upstream of New River Gorg...
Significance: Kay Moor coal mine exhibits important examples of early 20th century mining technology. Its two extant inclines and headhouse are examples of specialized adaptations to mining coal from outcrops ... More
Kaymoor Coal Mine, South side of New River, upstream of New River Gorg...
Significance: Kay Moor coal mine exhibits important examples of early 20th century mining technology. Its two extant inclines and headhouse are examples of specialized adaptations to mining coal from outcrops ... More
Cambria & Indiana Railroad, Blacksmith Shop, .25 miles northwest of Co...
Significance: The Blacksmith Shop is part of a larger rail yard and shop complex built in the late 1910s by the Cambria & Indiana Railroad, captive railroad of the Ebensburg Coal Company. This company was one ... More
Greenville Yard, Upper New York Bay, Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ
Significance: The Greenville Yard is a unique combination of a large classification rail yard with support facilities, and marine operations. Designed and built at the beginning of the twentieth century, it wa... More
Greenville Yard, Upper New York Bay, Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ
Significance: The Greenville Yard is a unique combination of a large classification rail yard with support facilities, and marine operations. Designed and built at the beginning of the twentieth century, it wa... More
Western Railway of Alabama Montgomery Rail Shops, 701 North Perry Stre...
Significance: When built, the Western Railway of Alabama shops at Montgomery were hailed as the largest in Alabama and the best equipped in the South. Their connection with the second oldest railroad in Alabam... More
Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA
Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More
Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA
Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More
Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA
Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Rail Rolling Mill, Elm Street & Locust Alle...
Significance: With the inexhaustible supply of coal and the eventual juncture of the route to Pittsburgh with the mainline at Cumberland, the B & O though significant economics were available by producing rails... More
Woodward Coal & Iron Company Furnace, Opossum Creek vicinity, Woodward...
STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Woodward Iron Company established the first iron furnace in the Bessemer area, and began operation of its first furnace in 1883. The Company later expanded t... More
Woodward Coal & Iron Company Furnace, Opossum Creek vicinity, Woodward...
STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Woodward Iron Company established the first iron furnace in the Bessemer area, and began operation of its first furnace in 1883. The Company later expanded t... More
Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne Co...
Survey number: HAER PA-204-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne Co...
Survey number: HAER PA-204-A Public domain photograph of industrial workers, factory building, work, assembly line, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Turners Falls Power & Electric Company, Hampden Station, East bank of ...
Significance: Turners Falls Power and Electric Company built only hydroelectric facilities until World War I, when it constructed the coal-fired, steam-powered Hampden Station to meet increased industrial deman... More
Drummond Coal Company Cedrum Mine, 8750 Pit, County Road 124, Townley,...
Survey number: HAER AL-44-A Public domain photograph of excavation, bulldozer, land management, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Council Ridge Colliery, Eckley, Luzerne County, PA
Significance: Coal mining methods used in the U.S. during the 1854-1964 period varied according to geography, dates of operation, geologic conditions, the availability of capital and mining machinery, the state... More
Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Alleg...
Significance: The Ocean Mine Number One Ventilation Fan and Powerhouse are among the few structures remaining from what was once the Consolidation Coal Company's Ocean Mine Number One complex. Together they re... More
Philadelphia Gas Works, Point Breeze Meter House, Intersection of Pass...
Significance: These structures represent one of America's early large scale gas production facilities. Constructed in the Gothic Style they were important structures that contributed to the growth of Philadelp... More
Shoaf Mine & Coke Works, East side of Shoaf, off Township Route 472, S...
See also HAER PA-283 for additional documentation. Includes drawings (sheets 5 & 6) & written data (pages 172 through 180). Significance: The Shoaf coke works is the most intact beehive-oven coke plant in Fayet... More
Tennessee Coal & Iron Company, Ensley Works, West of residential & com...
Significance: The Ensley steel mill is historically significant for a variety of "firsts" which occurred there. The first duplex steel in the United States was made here in 1899. So named because it was first... More
Mr. A. Langerfeld and one of his machines for picking coal which does ...
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Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Pier No. 6, Erie Lackawanna R...
Significance: The remains of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Pier No. 6: Grain Trestle are significant because of the information they provide about grain and coal loading techniques of a major ra... More
Atlantic Ice & Coal Company, 135 Prince Street, Montgomery, Montgomery...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...
Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More
Morris Canal, Phillipsburg, Warren County, NJ
Significance: The Morris Canal is one of the few amphibious canals to operate in the United States. Stretching from Phillipsburg on the Delaware River to Jersey City on the Hudson River, the Morris Canal opene... More
East Broad Top Railroad & Coal Company, Machine Shop, State Route 994,...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N292 Survey number: HAER PA-127-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000666
Marvine Colliery, Breaker No. 2, West side Boulevard Avenue, between E...
Significance: Marvine Colliery is important to local history for its relationship to the development of the Anthracite Mining Industry in northeast Pennsylvania, "The Anthracite Capital of the World" 1890-1930.... More
Locust Summit Central Breaker, State Route 2033, 1500 feet north of in...
Significance: The Locust Summit Central Breaker is an example of a highly intact breaker complex, significant for its history and technology. The Locust Summit Central Breaker is illustrative of attempts by co... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, Canton Coal Pier, Clinton Street at Keith Avenu...
Significance: The P.R.R. Canton Coal Pier is significant, uniquely designed, and highly successful means of transporting coal from rail to barge. It is virtually unchanged and still in operation. Survey numbe... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, Canton Coal Pier, Clinton Street at Keith Avenu...
Significance: The P.R.R. Canton Coal Pier is significant, uniquely designed, and highly successful means of transporting coal from rail to barge. It is virtually unchanged and still in operation. Survey numbe... More
Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...
STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More
Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...
STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More
Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...
STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More
Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...
STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More
Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...
STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More
Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...
STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More
Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...
STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More
Continental Gin Company, Prattville, Autauga County, AL
Significance: The site was acquired by Daniel Pratt in 1838, and he soon established grist and lumber and shingle mills there. By 1844, he had opened a cotton gin plant, the products of which were in great dem... More
Kennecott Copper Corporation, On Copper River & Northwestern Railroad,...
Significance: Kennecott's significance lies in its quality, as well as quantity, of high grade ore. The mine also illustrates the history of world and U.S. copper between 1907 and 1938. The rise and decline o... More
Kennecott Copper Corporation, On Copper River & Northwestern Railroad,...
Significance: Kennecott's significance lies in its quality, as well as quantity, of high grade ore. The mine also illustrates the history of world and U.S. copper between 1907 and 1938. The rise and decline o... More
Lick Run, Pennsylvania men hauling coal from their own mines
Photograph by National Photo Co. Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
![Brown hoist, Ohio Central coal dock, Toledo, O[hio]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTAvMDEvMDEvYnJvd24taG9pc3Qtb2hpby1jZW50cmFsLWNvYWwtZG9jay10b2xlZG8tb2hpby0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/31/webp "Brown hoist, Ohio Central coal dock, Toledo, O[hio]")
Brown hoist, Ohio Central coal dock, Toledo, O[hio]
Picryl description: Public domain image of a miner, coal mine, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Crow's Nest Pass Coal Mine at Fernie, B.C., Canada
No. 16339. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal barges on Monongahela River, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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A black and white photo of a train on the tracks, West Virginia. Farm ...
Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More
Loading a freighter with coal at one of the three coal docks owned by ...
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Loading coal into a lake freighter at the Pennsylvania Railroad docks,...
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Flour mill and coal loading dock. Port of Houston, Texas
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Orient No. 1, one of the largest coal mines in the world. Franklin Cou...
Number at end of title refers to LC-USF34-026940-D. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More ... More
Coal barges along Ohio River at Rochester, Pennsylvania
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O.G. Haubeil emptying coal scuttle into stove. Ross County, Ohio
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Champion no. 1 coal cleaning plan...
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Champion no. 1 coal cleaning plan...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Milwaukee Western Fuel Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Unloading coal f...
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Milwaukee Western Fuel Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Ten-ton bucket o...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a miner, coal mine, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...
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Buffalo, New York. Grain elevators and coal barge
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Sandusky, Ohio. Loading coal into a lake freighter at the Pennsylvania...
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U.S. Capitol power plant. Coal hoppers alteration in boiler room of U....
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Birmingham Industrial District, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL
STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Republic Steel Corporation's Thomas Works was one of four major iron and steel companies in the Birmingham District. The District's prominence as a major produce... More
Montcoal at twilight, from Cigar Hill
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Stripping the coal at Missionfield Coal Company's Mine, surface mining...
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Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: Miscellany, circa 1846-1908; Newspaper clip...
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