A post card view depicting the Williamstown Tunnel Entrance, the scene of the “Great Gas Disaster” of 1903, Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Coming out of the tunnel is a locomotive […]
In April 1872, a shocking mine disaster occurred in the lower anthracite district when a fall of rock occurred trapping three miners under the rubble, all of whom died in […]
An undated photo post card view of Short Mountain Slope, Wiconisco (Bear Gap), Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. __________________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post.
An undated photograph of a group of miners breaking up large pieces of coal. From a series of articles that appeared in the Pottsville Republican and Herald in 1998: The Pottsville Gap […]
A photograph dated July 15, 1931, of a miner operating an air-driven drilling machine. From a series of articles that appeared in the Pottsville Republican and Herald in 1998: The Salem Colliery […]
An undated photograph of a miner working a chute that took mine coal to a car the gangway. From a series of articles that appeared in the Pottsville Republican and Herald in […]
A photograph taken about 1885 of a primitive locomotive passing in front of an old wooded coal breaker. From a series of articles that appeared in the Pottsville Republican and Herald in […]
A photograph of Pottsville’s Coal Street, taken on August 9, 1886. The Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company shops are on the right and the new railroad station is […]