Select Bibliography of the Anthracite Industry

Select Bibliography of the Anthracite Industry



Book References:

Author(s) Year Title Publisher Place of Publication
Adams, S.P. 2004 Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth : Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore, MD
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission 1902 Anthracite Coal Strike Commission ... Report to the President on the Anthracite Coal Strike of May-October, 1902. Government Printing Office Washington, DC
Aurand, H.W. 1971 From the Molly Maguires to the United Mine Workers: The Social Ecology of an Industrial Union, 1869-1897 Temple University Press Philadelphia, PA
Bartholomew, C.L. and Metz, L.E. 1988 The Anthracite Iron Industry of the Lehigh Valley Center for Canal History and Technology Easton, PA
Binder, F.M. 1974 Coal Age Empire : Pennsylvania Coal and its Utilisation to 1860 Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Harrisburg, PA
Blatz, P.K. 1994 Democratic Miners : Work and Labour Relations in the Anthracite Coal Industry, 1875 - 1925. State University of New York Press Albany, NY
Board of Commissioners 1892 Atlas of the Anthracite Coal Fields of Pennsylvania Board of Commissioners, 2nd Geol. Survey of Penna. Harrisburg, PA
Bodnar, J. 1983 Anthracite People: Families, Unions and Work, 1900-1940 Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Harrisburg, PA
Bogen, J.I. 1927 The Anthracite Railroads. A Study in American Railroad Enterprise Ronald Press New York, NY
Bowen, E. 1848 The Coal Regions of Pennsylvania, being a General Geological, Historical and Statistical Review of the Anthracite Coal Districts E. N. Carvalho Pottsville, PA
Campbell, S. W. 1978 Businessmen and Anthracite: Aspects of Change in the Late 19th Century Anthracite Industry Ph.D. Thesis, University of Delaware Newark, DE
Chance, H. M. 1883 Report on the Mining Methods and Appliances used in the Anthracite Coal Fields Board of Commissioners, 2nd Geological Survey of Penna. Harrisburg, PA
Committee on the Judiciary, General 1871 Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, General, of the State of Pennsylvania in Relation to the Anthracite Coal Difficulties, with the Accompanying Testimony B. Singerly, State Printer Harrisburg, PA
Cornell, R. J. 1957 The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 Catholic University of America Press Washington, DC
Culin, S. 1903 A Trooper's Narrative of Service in the Anthracite Coal Strike, 1902 George W. Jacobs and Co. Philadelphia, PA
Daddow, S. H. and Bannan, B. 1866 Coal, Iron and Oil B. Bannan Pottsville, PA
Daggett, S. 1908 Railroad Reorganization Houghton Mifflin and Company Boston, MA
Davies, E. J. 1985 The Anthracite Aristocracy: Leadership and Social Change in the Hard Coal Regions of Northeastern Pennsylvania 1800-1930 Northern Illinois University Press DeKalb, IL
Dublin, T. (photographs by George Harvan) 1998 When the Mines Closed: Stories of Struggles in Hard Times Cornell University Press Ithaca, NY
Dublin, T. and Licht, W. 2005 The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century Cornell University Press Ithaca, NY
Evening Leader 1901 Historical Souvenir of Carbondale Evening Leader Press Carbondale, PA
Folsom, B. W. 1981 Urban Capitalists: Entrepreneurs and City Growth in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna and Lehigh Regions, 1800-1920 Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore, MD
French, S. L. 1914 Reminiscences of Plymouth, Luzerne County, Penna. Published by the Author Plymouth, PA
Greene, H. 1889 Coal and the Coal Mines Riverside Press Cambridge, MA
Greene, V. R. 1968 The Slavic Community on Strike: Immigrant Labor in Pennsylvania Anthracite University of Notre Dame Press Notre Dame, IN
Gudelunas, W.A. and Shade, W.G. 1976 Before the Molly Maguires: The Emergence of the Ethno-Religious Factor in the Politics of the Lower Anthracite Region, 1844-1872 Arno Press New York. NY
Harris, J. S. 1880 Report of Joseph S. Harris on the Coal Lands of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company Jackson Bros. Philadelphia, PA
Harris, J. S. 1908 Autobiography Unpublished Typescript Hagley Library, Greenville, DE
Healey, R.G. 2007 The Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Industry 1860 - 1902 : Economic Cycles, Business Decision-Making and Regional Dynamics. 512p. University of Scranton Press Scranton, PA
Hoffman, J. N. 1972 Girard Estate Coal Lands in Pennsylvania, 1801-1884 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington, DC
Hudson Coal Company 1932 The Story of Anthracite Hudson Coal Company New York, NY
Inspectors of Mines 1871 Reports of the Inspectors of Mines of the Anthracite Coal Regions, 1870- State Printer Harrisburg, PA
Janosov, R. (Ed.) 2002 The "Great Strike" : Perspectives on the 1902 Anthracite Coal Strike Canal History and Technology Press Easton, PA
Jones, C. L. 1908 Economic History of the Anthracite Tide-Water Canals J. C. Winston Philadelphia, PA
Jones, E. 1914 The Anthracite Coal Combination in the United States Harvard University Press Cambridge, MA
Knies, M. 2001 Coal on the Lehigh 1790-1827 Canal History and Technology Press Easton, PA
Landis, M. A. 1997 The Struggle for Ascendancy : The Changing Relationship of the Anthracite Mine Operators and Mine Workers of Pennsylvania's Council Ridge Colliery, 1854 - 1874 M.A. Thesis, University of Delaware Newark, DE
Lynch, P. M. 1974 Pennsylvania Anthracite: A Forgotten IWW Venture M.A. Thesis, Bloomsburg State College Bloomsburg, PA
Miller, D.L. and Sharpless, R.E. 1985 The Kingdom of Coal : Work, Enterprise and Ethnic Communities in the Mine Fields University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, PA
Mumford, J. K. 1925 Anthracite Industries Publishing Company New York, NY
Nearing, S. 1915 Anthracite; an Instance of Natural Resource Monopoly John C. Winston Philadelphia, PA
Northern Coal and Iron Company 1907 Corporate History of the Northern Coal and Iron Company, The Hudson Coal Company etc. n.p.
Palladino, G. 1990 Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840-68 University of Illinois Press Urbana, IL
Percival, G.E. and Kulesa, C.J. 1995 Illustrating an Anthracite Era : the Photographic Legacy of John Horgan Jr. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Harrisburg, PA
Petrillo, F. C. 1986 Anthracite and Slackwater : the North Branch Canal 1828 - 1901 Center for Canal History and Technology Easton, PA
Powell, H. B. 1978 Philadelphia's First Fuel Crisis : Jacob Cist and the Developing Market for Pennsylvania Anthracite Pennsylvania State University Press State College, PA
Rashleigh, A. C. 1951 Carbondale Centennial Carbondale Review Carbondale, PA
Roads, J. O. The Coal Region of Schuylkill County, Pa. : An Historical and Statistical Review of the Coal Trade Typescript Reading Anthracite Company, Pottsville, PA
Roberts, P. 1901 The Anthracite Coal Industry The Macmillan Company New York, NY
Roberts, P. 1904 Anthracite Coal Communities The Macmillan Company New York, NY
Salay, D. L. (Ed.) 1984 Hard Coal, Hard Times: Ethnicity and Labor in the Anthracite Region Anthracite Museum Press Scranton, PA
Schaefer, D. F. 1967 A Quantitative Description and Analysis of the Growth of the Pennsylvanian Anthracite Coal Industry 1820-65 Ph.D. Thesis, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC
Smith, S. R. 1907 The Black Trail of Anthracite Published by Author Kingston, NY
Stevenson, G. E. 1931 Reflections of an Anthracite Engineer By the author Scranton, PA
Sweet, S. H. 1866 Special Report on Coal : Showing its Distribution, Classification and Cost Delivered over Different Routes to various Points in the State of New York Van Nostrand New York, NY
Throop, B. H. 1895 A Half Century in Scranton Scranton Republican Press Scranton, PA
US House of Representatives 1889 Labor Troubles in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania 1887-88 Government Printing Office Washington, DC
Wallace, A. F. C. 1987 St. Clair: A Nineteenth Century Coal Town's Experience with a Disaster Prone Industry Cornell University Press Ithaca, NY
Walsh, W.J. 1931 The United Mine Workers of America as an Economic and Social Force in the Anthracite Territory National Capital Press Washington, DC
Wolensky, R.P., Wolensky, K.C. and Wolensky, N.H. 1999 The Knox Mine Disaster, January 22, 1959: The Final Years of the Northern Anthracite Industry and the Effort to Rebuild a Regional Economy Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission Harrisburg, PA
Wolensky, R.P. and Keating, J. 2008 Tragedy at Avondale: The Causes, Consequences, and Legacy of the Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Industry's Most Deadly Mining Disaster, September 6, 1869 Canal History and Technology Press Easton, PA
Yearley, C. K. 1961 Enterprise and Anthracite: Economics and Democracy in Schuylkill County, 1820-75 Johns Hopkins Press Baltimore, MD



Journal References:

Author(s) Year Title Journal Volume Pages
Aldreich, M. 1997 The Perils of Mining Anthracite: Regulation, Technology and Safety, 1870-1945 Pennsylvania History 64 361-383
Berthoff, R. T. 1965 The Social Order of the Anthracite Region, 1825-1902 Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 89 261-91
Binder, F. M. 1959 Pennsylvania Coal and the Beginnings of American Steam Navigation Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 83 420-445
Blatz, P. K. 1981 The All-too-Youthful Proletarians: Breaker Boys of the Anthracite Coal Region in the Early 1900s Pennsylvania Heritage 7 13-17
Chandler, A.D. Jr. 1972 Anthracite Coal and the Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in the United States Business History Review 47 141-181
Deasy, G.F. and Griess, P.R. 1965 Effects of a Declining Mining Economy on the Pennsylvania Anthracite Region Annals of the Association of American Geographers 55 239-259
Doukas, D. 1997 Corporate Capitalism on Trial: The Hearings of The Anthracite Coal Strike Commission, 1902-1903 Identities - Newark 3 367-398
Dublin, T. and Licht, W. 2000 Gender and Economic Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region, 1920-1970 Oral History Review 27 81-98
Ginger, R. 1954 Managerial Employees in Anthracite, 1902: A Study in Occupational Mobility Journal of Economic History 14 146-157
Gowaskie, J. M. 1985 John Mitchell and the Anthracite Mine Workers: Leadership Conservatism and Rank-and-File Militancy Labor History 27 54-83
Healey, R. G. 1984 Sharpe, Weiss and Company and the Lehigh Coal Trade, 1867-74 Proceedings of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society XXIV 24-43
Heydinger, E.J. 1961 Railroads of the First and Second Anthracite Fields of Pennsylvania Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin 104 38-50
Hoffman, F. L. 1902 Problems of Labor and Life in Anthracite Coal Mining Engineering and Mining Journal 74 675-76
Janosov, R.A. 1997 Concrete City, Garden Village of the Anthracite Region Pennsylvania Heritage XXIII 32-39
Knies, M. 2001 The D&H Coal Company : New Insights from the James Archbald Papers Canal History and Technology Proceedings XX 53-80
Lewis, W. D. 1972 The Early History of the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company : A Study in Technological Adaptation Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 96 424-468
Marsh, B. 1987 Continuity and Decline in the Anthracite Towns of Pennsylvania Annals of the Association of American Geographers 77 337-352
Miller, E. Willard 1955 The Southern Anthracite Region: a Problem Area Economic Geography 31 331-50
Murphy, R.E. and Murphy, M. 1938 Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania Economic Geography 14 338-348
Peresie, J.L. 1997 Crusader with a Camera : Lewis Hine and his Battle against Child "Slavery" Pennsylvania Heritage XXIII 4-13
Phelan, C. 1996 The Making of a Labor Leader: John Mitchell and the Anthracite Strike of 1900 Pennsylvania History 63 53-77
Powell, H. B. 1980 The Pennsylvania Anthracite Industry, 1769-1976 Pennsylvania History 46 3-27
Roberts, P. 1902 The Anthracite Conflict Yale Review 11 298
Virtue, G. O. 1897 The Anthracite Mine Laborers Bulletin of the Department of Labor 13 728-74
Virtue, G.O. 1896 The Anthracite Combinations Quarterly Journal of Economics 10 296-323
Warne, F. J. 1901 The Anthracite Coal Strike Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 17 15-52
Wiebe, R. H. 1961 The Anthracite Strike of 1902: A Record of Confusion Mississippi Valley Historical Review 48 229-51
Willcox, D. 1905 Present Conditions in the Anthracite Coal Industry North American Review 181 216-28