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Ernst R. Habicht papers

 Collection
Accession: 2253
Abstract:

Ernst R. Habicht (1902-1987) was the general manager of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company's ammonia production plant at Belle, West Virginia. His papers include newspaper clippings, correspondence, a long memorandum, and a humorous poem by Habicht relating to the 1947-1948 strike at the Belle plant.

Dates: 1948

Eugene du Pont Jr. papers

 Collection
Accession: 1599
Abstract:

Eugene du Pont Jr. (1873-1954) was a director of the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company from 1917 until 1954, and a great grandson of company founder, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771-1834). The collection contains the personal papers of Eugene du Pont, Jr., and the records of the Kinloch Gun Club, a private shooting club which he founded. It also contains a separate collection of correspondence between his brother Alfred I. du Pont, vice president and general manager of the DuPont Company, with his assistant Frank L. Connable, which is an important source for the history of the company in the early 1900s.

Dates: 1835-1956

Knights of Labor handbill

 Collection
Accession: 2511
Abstract:

Organized in Philadelphia in 1869 as a general labor organization to protect and promote American laborers, the Knights of Labor began a strike against the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company in December 1887 after members were fired for refusing to switch cars to a non-union grain elevator in Philadelphia. The handbill, "An appeal to the wage-workers and businessmen of New York," appeals for donations to aid the striking Coal and Iron Company miners and appeals to the public to attend a sympathy and fundraising meeting on February 12, 1888.

Dates: 1888

Lukens Steel Company records

 Collection
Accession: 0050
Abstract:

Lukens Steel Company was a medium-sized producer of specialty steel products and one of the top three U.S. producers of steel plate. The Lukens Steel Company records documents all aspects of the business from the early nineteenth century through the 1970s.

Dates: 1798-1993

Penn Virginia Corporation records

 Collection
Accession: 1764
Abstract:

Penn Virginia Corporation was an oil and gas company, incorporated as the Virginia Coal & Iron Company on January 6, 1882. It was one of many firms established by a group of interrelated entrepreneurs headed by John Leisenring (1819-1884), a Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, civil and mining engineer. The name changed to Penn Virigina Corporation in 1967. The records of Penn Virginia Corporation cover the development and operations of the Virginia Coal & Iron Company, a large southern Appalachian land company, with some information on its immediate neighbors and local support facilities.

Dates: 1864-1981

Reading Company records

 Collection
Accession: 1520
Abstract:

Chartered in 1871, Reading Company was the holding company for the system of railroads, canals and coal mines assembled by the predecessor Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company between 1833 and 1896. The collection consists of the corporate records of the Reading Company (1871-1976), the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company (1833-1896), the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company (1896-1923), and 159 predecessors and subsidiaries.

Dates: 1795-1979

Wharton School, Industrial Research Unit records

 Collection
Accession: 2296
Abstract:

The Industrial Research Unit of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania mission was to "study the economic and social problems of business." Herbert Roof Northrup (1918-2007) was chairman of the Department of Industry and director of the Industrial Research Unit. The records consist of surveys, notes, interviews and background materials for the studies produced by the Industrial Research Unit and its predecessor from 1941 to 1990 and collected and maintained by Northrup. The bulk of the files are from the 1970s and 1980s.

Dates: 1941-2001; Majority of material found within 1968-1988

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Ayers, Rufus A. (Rufus Adolphus), 1849-1926 1
Baer, George F. (George Frederick), 1842-1914 1
Baird, Matthew, 1817-1877 1
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 1
Bath Iron Works, Ltd 1
Beech Creek Railroad Company 1
Belmont Iron Works (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Bertrand, Charles Edward, 1915-1978 1
Bethlehem Steel Company 1
Biddle, Edward R. (Edward Robert) 1
Blackwood Coal and Coke Company 1
Boone County Coal Corporation 1
Brandywine Iron Works (Coatesville, Pa.) 1
Brandywine Iron Works and Nail Factory (Coatesville, Pa.) 1
Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh Railway Company 1
By-Products Steel Corporation 1
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Central Railroad of New Jersey 1
Charles Huston & Sons 1
Chauncey, Elihu, 1779-1847 1
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company 1
Clinchfield Coal Corporation 1
Coatesville Relief Association 1
Connable, Frank L. (Frank Lee), 1871-1947 1
Corbin, Austin, 1827-1896 1
Corliss Steam Engine Company 1
Cornell Steamboat Company 1
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company 1
Dice, Agnew T. (Agnew Thomson), 1862-1932 1
Dickson, Samuel, 1837-1915 1
Drexel, Morgan & Co 1
Du Pont family 1
Du Pont, Alexis I. (Alexis Irénée), 1869-1921 1
Du Pont, Eugene, 1873-1954 1
Elmira, Cortland, and Northern Railroad Company 1
Emlen, William F. (William Fishbourn), 1787-1866 1
Empire Transportation Company 1
Ewing, Charles H., 1866-1935 1
Fall Brook Railway Company 1
Federal Slitting Mill (Rokeby, Pa.) 1
Florence Mining and Milling Company 1
Furness, Frank, 1839-1912 1
General Boat Works, Inc 1
Gibbons & Huston 1
Gibbons, Abraham, 1812-1895 1
Gowan & Marx 1
Gowen, Franklin B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1836-1889 1
Habicht, Ernst R., 1902-1987 1
Harris, Joseph S. (Joseph Smith), 1836-1910 1
Huston & Penrose 1
Huston, A. F. (Abram Francis), 1852-1930 1
Huston, Charles L. (Charles Lukens), 1906-1982 1
Huston, Charles L., 1856-1951 1
Huston, Charles, 1822-1897 1
Huston, Penrose & Company 1
Huston, Stewart, 1898-1971 1
Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895 1
J.P. Morgan & Co 1
Jacobs-Shupert United States Firebox Company 1
Jersey Central Transportation Company 1
Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railway Company 1
Junction Railroad Company 1
Kemble & Warner 1
Kemble, Peter, 1825-1887 1
Kemble, William, 1795-1881 1
Kemmerer, John L., 1869-1944 1
Kemmerer, Mahlon S. 1
Kinloch Gun Club 1
Knight, Edward C. (Edward Collings), 1813-1892 1
Lancaster Locomotive Works 1
Laurel Iron Works (Newlin, Pa. : Township) 1
Lehigh & Susquehanna Rail Road (Firm) 1
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company 1
Leisenring family 1
Leisenring, E. B. (Edward Barnes), 1895-1952 1
Leisenring, E. B., Jr. (Edward Barnes), 1926-2011 1
Leisenring, Edward B. (Edward Barnes), 1845-1894 1
Leisenring, John, 1819-1884 1
Lewis, Edwin M. 1
Lorenz, William, 1826-1884 1
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company 1
Lukens Co-operative Store, Ltd 1
Lukens Coal Company, Inc 1
Lukens Erecting Company, Inc 1
Lukens Iron Works (Coatesville, Pa.) 1
Lukens Iron and Steel Company 1
Lukens Steel Company 1
Lukens, Charles, 1786-1825 1
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