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Folder 16: Pahaquarry Copper Mines, 1942/08 - 8/7/2003

 File — Box: 0238.25, Folder: 16
Identifier: 0238.25.16

Scope and Contents

- Document - “Pahaquarry Copper Mines Segment 6, Tracts 605-1 & 605-2” - Document - 11/25/2002 - “Von Hagen’s Copper Mine Inn and Tavern Segment 6, Tracts 603-1/2/3” - Document - 6/6/2001 - “Von Hagen’s Copper Mine Inn and Tavern Segment 6, Tracts 603-1/2/3” with handwritten notes by Shukaitis - Document - “Von Hagen’s Copper Mine Inn and Tavern Segment 6, Tracts 603-1/2/3” - Document - “History of the Valley” with handwritten notes by Shukaitis - Correspondence - 7/11/2001- From: Doris Stoddard, To: Nancy Shukaitis - informing Shukaitis why Doris took a while to respond and offering any further assistance to Shukaitis in the future - Document - “Von Hagen’s Copper Mine Inn Segment 6, Tracts 603-1/2/3” with handwritten notes by Shukaitis - 3 copies - Document - “Copper Mine Inn Complex” with handwritten notes by Shukaitis - Correspondence - 8/7/2003 - From: Arlene Pasciolla, To: Nancy Shukaitis - informing Shukaitis that she may quote from the referenced Reader’s Digest - Correspondence - 7/29/2003 - From: Arlene Pasciolla, To: Nancy Shukaitis - informing Shukaitis that Pasciolla is looking into allowing Shukaitis to use an excerpt from The Last Two Million Years - Correspondence - 6/10/2003 - From: Nancy Shukaitis, To: Reader’s Digest - asking for permission to use a quote from The Last Two Million Years-History of Man for her book Lasting Legacies of the Lower Minisink - 2 copies - Correspondence - 8/7/2003 - From: Arthur Triggs, To: Nancy Shukaitis - confirming that Shukaitis’s email has been received - Correspondence - 6/10/2003 - From: Anita Wolff, To: Nancy Shukaitis - informing Shukaitis that she has permission to reprint portions of the Encyclopedia Britannica so long as she provides an acknowledgement - Correspondence - From: Nancy Shukaitis, To: Anita Wolff - asking for permission to quote the Encyclopedia Britannica in her book Lasting Legacies of the Lower Minisink - Document - “Report of the Bureau of Mnes to Eon. Herald L. Yikes, Secretary of the Interior. The Pahaquarry Copper Mine” - Handwritten note - Encyclopedia Britannica and Reader’s Digest quotes that Shukaitis would like to use for her book and the proper procedures to receive the rights to do so - Photocopy - 4/5/2003 - copper processing page from the Encyclopedia Britannica with handwritten notes by Shukaitis - Handwritten note - general information on the copper age - Correspondence - 4/5/2003 - From: John Rutter, To: Nancy Shukaitis - informing Shukaitis that she can use a brief quote from The Ice Man - Lone Voyager from the Copper Age - 2 copies - Correspondence - 4/7/2003 - From: Nancy Shukaitis, To: John Rutter - thanking Rutter for allowing her to use the quotes - Correspondence - 3/20/2003 - From: Nancy Shukaitis, To: John Rutter - follow up email to the one that Rutter had sent her on 5/30/2002 and explaining how she would be using the book - 2 copies - Correspondence - 5/30/2002 - From: John Rutter, To: Nancy Shukaitis - telling Shukaitis that she has permission to use a 27-word quote in any educational article or book - Correspondence - 5/24/2002 - From: Nancy Shukaitis, To: John Rutter - asking for permission to use a quote from National Geographic - Correspondence - 4/19/2002 - From: L.T. Walker, To: Nancy Shukaitis - informing Shukaitis that National Geographic has not published information on the first people people to turn copper ore into useful objects but encloses information that references something from her local paper - Photocopy - article regarding copper from a June 1993 issue of National Geographic - Correspondence - 5/20/2002 - From: Susan Riggs, To: Nancy Shukaitis - informing Shukaitis how to use National Geographic Society materials in a publication - Photocopy - “Copper Age in the Alps” article from National Geographic - Correspondence - From: Harold Van Campen, To: Senator Bill Bradley - thanking Senator Bradley for his work in saving the Delaware River and requesting for the U.S. Bureau of Mines information on the Pahaquarry - Handwritten note - From Pahaquarry Copper Mine DWGNRA, Cultural Landscape Report Vol. I notes - Newspaper clipping - “Old Mine Road” from Pocono Record - News letter print out - June 24, 2002 - The Pahaquarry Irregular Volume 4, Issue 2 with the mission statement circled - Document - 6/29/2001 - “Pahaquarry Copper Mines Segment 6, Tracts 605-1 & 605-2” with handwritten notes by Shukaitis - Handwritten document - ““Pahaquarry Copper Mines Segment 6, Tracts 605-1 & 605-2” draft - Handwritten note - 10/1996 - quotes from “Esopus - Minisink Way; A Short History of Old Mine Road” with the page numbers the quotes come from - Correspondence - 9/12/1996 - From: Judy Feller, To: Nancy Shukaitis - informing Shukaitis that information on the Pahaquarry Copper Mine and Old Mine Road are available in the Kemp Library and the letter has handwritten notes by Shukaitis - Correspondence - 9/10/1996 - From: Nancy Shukaitis, To: Judy Feller - inquiring how to find out information about the Pahaquarry Copper Mines and who built the “Old Mine Road” - Handwritten note - information regarding the “Journal of Netherlands” by David Oleneck that can be found in the Duke University Library’s Special Collections - Photocopy - NW-NJ: An Interior + History of Historic Engineering + Industry by Heritage by Heritage Conservation + Recreation Service - Correspondence - 9/30/1996 - From: Judy Feller, To: Nancy Shukaitis - email with handwritten notes by Shukaitis informing Shukaitis which books she was looking for are available at the East Stroudsburg University and where to find other books or items that she may be interested in - Photocopy - Library holdings for several books regarding geology, American mining, and history of regions - Handwritten note - 9/22/1996 - Information on the books that Shukaitis still needs to locate alongside notes on mining in New Jersey - Handwritten note - information from the New Jersey Mining Report and The Old Copper Mines of NJ by Harry Bischoss Weiss + Grace M. Weiss - Correspondence - 11/5/1996 - From: Nancy Shukaitis, To : US Department of Interior Bureau of Mines - inquiring about what was the first mine to be worked by the white race with an enclosed attachment of a report by G.D. Jermain of his investigation of the Pahaquarry Copper Mines - Official Document - 8/1942 - general information of on the Pahaquarry Copper Mine and how it offers little for future development of the commercial copper industry - Handwritten note - list of books or documents that Shukaitis still needs to finish her document - Photocopy - Peter Kalm’s Travels in North America pages 202-3 - Photocopy - Copper Mines and Mining in New Jersey pages 124-47 - Photocopy - list of 19 books with their call numbers with handwritten notes saying which Shukaitis has - Document - fax of a list of books that Shukaitis has requested - Document - 8/26/1991- fax of a list of books that Shukaitis has requested - Photocopy - “Notes on Copper Mining in the American Colonies” with handwritten notes by Shukaitis - Correspondence - 2/25/2000 - From: W. Mead Stapler, To: Nancy Shukaitis - providing Shukaitis with items on copper mining and informing her of the importance of the world market in the success of certain mining industries in the US - Note - 4/23/1997 - information on John Pidcock’s Copper Mine - Photocopy - Copper Mines and Mining in New Jersey pages 12-17 - Correspondence - 6/18/1997 - From: Nancy Shukaitis, To: Janet M. IDavis - thanking Janet for sending her info on Pahaquarry, informing Janet of Shukaitis’s previous work, and asking Janet if she knows any old historians concerned with the earliest park of Warren County history - Correspondence - 6/4/1997 - From: Janet M. Davis, To: Nancy Shukaitis - informing Shukaitis that Janet found information on Pahaquarry Mine and that she is sending her a photocopy of the book that she found the info in even though it doesn’t support Shukaitis’s theory - Photocopy - Delaware Water Gap by A. Berle Clemensen Chapter VII - Photocopy - 2/1999 - “De Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius” Vol. 15, No. 1 - Photocopy - “Final Cultural Landscape Report–Pahaquarry Copper Mine” - Photocopy - 8/26/1991 - books on Mines and Mining–Warren and Sussex Co with handwritten notes by Shukaitis on which books are missing and where to find certain ones - Correspondence - 8/26/1996 - From: Jerry H. Van Campen, To: Nancy Shukaitis - providing Shukaitis with four sources that should be more reliable alongside three pages to better illustrate his point - Photocopy - Minisink Valley Reformed Ductch Church Records - Photocopy - Pre-Revolutionary Dutch Houses and Families - Document - fax of books that Shukaitis is looking for - Photocopy - Three Hundred Years of Mining in Sussex County, New Jersey - Correspondence - 7/20/1996 - From: Nancy Shukaitis, To: the Curator of the New York Historical Society - asking if there is any reference documents that deal with the earliest history of the Minisink Valley - Photocopy - The Old Copper MInes of New Jersey pages 1-29 with a handwritten note by Shukaitis - Photocopy - “The Pahaquarry Mine” - Correspondence - 8/21/1996 - From: Nancy Shukaitis, To: State Archives and Records Administration New York State Education Department - asking if the department can inform her about a publication called “Documentary History of New York” - Correspondence - 9/13/1996 - From: New York State Archives, To: Nancy Shukaitis - informing Shukaitis that the book she inquired about may be available through another New York State government agency - Correspondence - 1/4/1997 - From: Nancy Shukaitis, To: New York State Library Manuscripts and Special Collections Unit - asking for a researcher to find out about locating “Documentary History of New York” - Correspondence - 1/19/1996 - From: John A. Feulner, To: Nancy Shukaitis - providing Shukaitis a printout of books that contain information on the Pahaquarry Copper Mines - Correspondence - 11/21/1996 - From: Janie Morris, To: Nancy Shukaitis - telling Shukaitis about where to find Final Cultural Landscape Report and how to get the title from Duke University - Correspondence - 10/25/1996 - From: Nancy Shukaitis, To: Duke University Library Special Collections - requesting a list of what New Netherlands documents are at Duke and the price of research - Printouts - WorldCat search results of books that Duke Library possess that are related to Pahaquarry - Photocopy - “The Rocky Hill Mine” - Photocopy - Old Mine Road: Trail for Indians and Early Settlers - Correspondence - From: Nancy Shukaitis, To: Charles Franklin - informing Franklin of the importance of “treasure hunting” in historic research and of her stance on NPS taking away land from what should be historic areas or national parks - Correspondence - From: Nancy Shukaitis, To: Charles Franklin - informing Franklin of the work of Delaware Valley Conservation Association in their attempts to preserve the Minisink area - Correspondence - 3/3/1994 - From: Nancy Shukaitis, To: Charles Franklin - informing Franklin that the DVCA is trying to learn more about how mining was conducted in the 1600s and precisely how all the work in the Pahaquarry Copper Mines and the Old Mine Road were made - Correspondence - 2/24/1994 - From: Charles Franklin, To: Nancy Shukaitis - writing to provide Shukaitis with a magazine article regarding the subject of her work, asking to learn more about the DVCA, and offering his assistance if at all needed - Photocopy - “Treasure” February, 1994, Vol. 25, No. 2 - Correspondence - 3/12/1994 - From: Charles Franklin, To: Nancy Shukaitis - sending Shukaitis an article from the February issue of “Treasure,” page 245 and bibliography from The Hudson Through the Years, and discusses his interest in metal detecting as a hobby - Photocopy - The Hudson Through the Years by Arthur G. Adams page 245 and bibliography

Dates

  • Creation: 1942/08 - 8/7/2003

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

English

Access Restrictions

Access Restrictions: Collection housed remotely. Users need to contact 24 hours in advance.

Extent

From the Collection: 66 Linear Feet (33 cartons)

Repository Details

Part of the Lehigh University Special Collections Repository

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