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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

Stonega, Virginia coal camp photograph

 Collection
Accession: 1994-251
Abstract:

This photograph is of a coal camp in Stonega, Virginia built and operated by the Stonega Coke and Coal Company. The Stonega Coke & Coal Company was a typical large southern Appalachian bituminous coal producer with mines in Virginia and West Virginia. Coal operations and their associated towns, or coal camps, consisted of company-built houses, churches, schools, theatres, dance halls, and even graveyards. The company provided each camp with a doctor, nurse, and hospital.

Dates: circa 1900

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Black people in the trades 1
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A. Gibbons, Jr., & Company 1
Ayers, Rufus A. (Rufus Adolphus), 1849-1926 1
Baldwin Locomotive Works 1
Bath Iron Works, Ltd 1
Belmont Iron Works (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
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Bethlehem Steel Company 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
By-Products Steel Corporation 1
Charles Huston & Sons 1
Clinchfield Coal Corporation 1
Coatesville Relief Association 1
Corliss Steam Engine Company 1
Cornell Steamboat Company 1
Federal Slitting Mill (Rokeby, Pa.) 1
Florence Mining and Milling Company 1
General Boat Works, Inc 1
Gibbons & Huston 1
Gibbons, Abraham, 1812-1895 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
Jacobs-Shupert United States Firebox 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
Lancaster Locomotive Works 1
Laurel Iron Works (Newlin, Pa. : Township) 1
Lehigh Valley Railroad 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
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
Lukens, Inc 1
Lukens, Rebecca W. (Rebecca Webb), 1794-1854 1
Lukenweld, Inc 1
Manley & Cooper Manufacturing Company 1
Mineral Development Company 1
New York Mining and Manufacturing Company 1
Norfolk and Western Railway Company 1
Norris Locomotive Works 1
Pardee, Calvin, 1841-1923 1
Penn Virginia Corporation 1
Pennock, Isaac, 1767-1824 1
Penrose, Charles 1
Pusey, Jones & Company 1
R.W. Lukens & Company 1
Southern Railway (U.S.) 1
Steele & Worth 1
Steele, Hugh E. (Hugh Exton), 1815-1874 1
Stonega Coke and Coal Company 1
Taggart, John K., 1851-1896 1
Taggart, Ralph E. (Ralph Enos), 1887-1951 1
Thomas Iron Company 1
Triadelphia Iron Works (Coatesville, Pa.) 1
Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Company 1
Virginia, Tennessee and Carolina Steel and Iron Company 1
Wawasset Beneficial Society 1
Wentz family 1
Wentz, Daniel B. (Daniel Bertsch), 1872-1926 1
Wentz, John S. (John Shriver), 1838-1918 1
Westmoreland Coal Company 1
Westmoreland Incorporated 1
Winans, Ross, 1796-1877 1
Wolcott, Robert W. (Robert Wilson), 1892-1982 1
Worth Brothers Company 1
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