Coal Castles – Locustdale (Potts) Colliery (1857-1955)
The Potts Colliery Breaker is pictured at center, with the wooden rock line on the left of center. The Primrose Slope is at top center and the Mammoth Slope is […]
Coal Castles – Shenandoah City Colliery (1862-1932)
Train cars filled with various sizes of coal await movement from the Shenandoah City Colliery. From a series of articles that appeared in the Pottsville Republican and Herald in 1997: The Shenandoah […]
History of Lykens to 1908
A birds-eye view of Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, taken about 1899. The photograph was featured as part of an article titled “History of Lykens,” that appeared in a special Souvenir […]
Replacement Theory in the Coal Region, 1862
During the Civil War, the term “contraband” came to refer to persons who were held as slaves, who by their own means, or as a result of liberation by the […]
Images from the Coal Strike of 1900 (6)
Caption: The Dark Side of the Great Strike. This miner’s family ate the last of their provisions on Friday. Source: Philadelphia Times, September 30, 1900, via Newspapers.com. ________________________________ Corrections and […]
Coal Strike of 1900 – Wives of Miners Speak Out
An article from the Philadelphia Inquirer, September 30, 1900: WE’LL FIGHT IT OUT TO THE BITTER END.” SAY THE WIVES OF COAL MINERS That Men Must Work and Women Must […]
Images from the Coal Strike of 1900 (5)
Title: Breaker Boys Enjoy the Strike Credit: Philadelphia Inquirer, September 30, 1900, page 2, via Newspapers.com. ______________________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post.
Images from the Coal Strike of 1900 (4)
Title: Miner’s Wife and Admiral Dewey’s Namesake. Credit: Philadelphia Inquirer, September 30, 1900, page 2, via Newspapers.com. ______________________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post.