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Mine Inspection Trip Reports

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0036
Abstract Three typescript reports of Lehigh University Mining Engineering Department’s mine inspection trips made 1922, 1924, 1926. Two of the reports are travelogue itineraries as well as noting mines and mills observed, the third is a more technical discussion of the mines visited. Reports are by Robert G. Pfahler EM‘23, George A. Howland EM’27, Robert A. Harrier EM’27, John P. Cox EM’27, and Paul W. Sinwell EM’27 all studying for the Engineer of Mining degrees. According to the notes in the...
Dates: Event: 1922 - 1926

Schuylkill County Sheriff Session Docket

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0338.MS
Abstract

A documentation of court history of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, infamously known as the site of the activities of the Molly Maguires, a secret society primarily of Irish miners who riot against anthracite coalmine owners in the mid-1800s. Although the time frame of this court history was before the real "crime wave" that appeared in the anthracite mine area, it is indicative of the labor unrest prevailing throughout the citizenry in the Pennsylvania coalfields.

Dates: 1858-1861

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Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company 2
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48th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers 1
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