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Phoenix Iron Company records
The Phoenix Iron Company began in the late eighteenth century as a manufacturer of cut nails. It later became a major producer of railroad rails and iron and steel structural members. This small collection of records includes incoming correspondence chiefly relating to orders for and deliveries of iron for railroads.
Phoenix Steel Corporation records
The Phoenix Steel Company began in the late eighteenth century as a manufacturer of cut nails. It later became a major producer of railroad rails and iron and steel structural members. Their records include minutes (1856-1929); stock ledgers; brief of title papers and property maps; legal and financial correspondence and tax papers; account books; and a works diary.
Vulcan Iron Works negatives
Vulcan Iron Works was a producer of mine and industrial locomotives, mine hoists, and other colliery machinery. Vulcan's locomotives were designed for mine, logging, plantation and factory work, including steam, electric and battery models for underground haulage. A large number were sold to strip mine and earth moving contractors. The majority of the collection consists of original negatives (glass plate and film) dating from about the 1880s to 1943. These are builder's photographs, recording the construction of locomotives and machinery, although there are some photographs of the plants themselves (interiors and exteriors), employees at work, the town of Wilkes-Barre, and equipment installed and in service, particularly at collieries in the anthracite fields. About half the pictures are of locomotives and the rest are of mining equipment. There are also 1,340 negatives of drawings and plans, chiefly of mining equipment hoists. The collection also contains about 2,400 copy photographs made to preserve the images on original nitrate negatives which had extensively deteriorated. The collection is organized into five series: Railroad; Mining and manufacturing equipment; Factory, mill, and shop views; Drawings; and People.
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- Reeves, Benjamin, 1779-1844 1
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- Reeves, David, 1793-1871 1
- Reeves, David, 1852-1923 1
- Reeves, Samuel J. (Samuel James), 1818-1878 1
- Reeves, Samuel J. (Samuel James), 1880-1944 1
- Reeves, William H. (William Handy), 1854-1930 1
- Safe Harbor Iron Company 1
- Sisto, Joseph A. (Joseph Anthony), 1889-1969 1
- Spring Mill Furnace (Conshohocken, Pa.) 1
- Thomson, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1808-1874 1
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- Walters, George, 1810-1885 1
- Whitaker, James, 1781-1875 1
- Whitaker, Joseph, 1789-1870 1
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