The Knox Mine Disaster January 22 1959

Author : Robert P. Wolensky
Publisher : Pennsylvania Historical &
ISBN 13 : 9780892710812
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Knox Mine Disaster, January 22, 1959 written by Robert P. Wolensky and published by Pennsylvania Historical &. This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Knox Mine Disaster is much more than a history of an accident—or an industry, for that matter. Because the book draws on the recollections of miners and their families, industry officials, and individuals involved in the legal aftermath of the disaster, it is an epic drama that is as spellbinding as it is sensational. Candid photographs of members of this cast of characters lend a human element that overshadows the gaping hole in the riverbed, the billions of gallons of water that crashed through it, and the tons of twisted equipment and machinery.

Author : Robert P. Wolensky
Publisher : Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of the Knox Mine Disaster written by Robert P. Wolensky and published by Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relive the drama of the Knox Mine Disaster of January 22, 1959, through the voices of survivors, the victims' families, contemporary newspaper accounts, and the literature and music generated by the tragedy. Read the poignant and often shocking first-person accounts of those who lived through one of the most devastating disasters in American mining history. This companion volume to the best-selling book The Knox Mine Disaster, published in 1999 by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, also offers a detailed study on how the citizens of northeastern Pennsylvania have memorialized and remembered the last major catastrophe to strike Pennsylvania's anthracite industry.

Author : Robert P. Wolensky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756707392
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Knox Mine Disaster, January 22, 1959 written by Robert P. Wolensky and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story about hard coal's demise in the northernmost of the 4 anthracite fields in PA. Many mistakenly believe that the disaster, suddenly and by itself, caused the death of the industry. This book argues that the story is much more complicated than that, and that the demise of anthracite is, in fact, a sordid tale involving greedy individuals, lax inspectors, and irresponsible corp. and unions. Documents the events surrounding the break-in of the River at the Knox's River Slope Mine; looks at blame and responsibility; looks at 2 explanations for the catastrophe; and examines the public and private sectors' efforts to remake the post-anthracite economy. Photos.

Author : William Rachunis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
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Download or read book Report of Major Mine Inundation Disaster, River Slope Mine, May Shaft Section, Schooley Colliery, Knox Coal Company, Incorporated, Port Griffith, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania written by William Rachunis and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pennsylvania. General Assembly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the Joint Committee to Investigate the Knox Mine Disaster written by Pennsylvania. General Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Dublin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501707299
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Face of Decline written by Thomas Dublin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania once prospered. Today, very little mining or industry remains, although residents have made valiant efforts to restore the fabric of their communities. In The Face of Decline, the noted historians Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht offer a sweeping history of this area over the course of the twentieth century. Combining business, labor, social, political, and environmental history, Dublin and Licht delve into coal communities to explore grassroots ethnic life and labor activism, economic revitalization, and the varied impact of economic decline across generations of mining families. The Face of Decline also features the responses to economic crisis of organized capital and labor, local business elites, redevelopment agencies, and state and federal governments. Dublin and Licht draw on a remarkable range of sources: oral histories and survey questionnaires; documentary photographs; the records of coal companies, local governments, and industrial development corporations; federal censuses; and community newspapers. The authors examine the impact of enduring economic decline across a wide region but focus especially on a small group of mining communities in the region's Panther Valley, from Jim Thorpe through Lansford to Tamaqua. The authors also place the anthracite region within a broader conceptual framework, comparing anthracite's decline to parallel developments in European coal basins and Appalachia and to deindustrialization in the United States more generally.

Author : Bryan Glahn
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439655731
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mining Disasters of the Wyoming Valley written by Bryan Glahn and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten-year-old Willie Hatton was excited to visit his father at the Avondale Mine on the morning of September 6, 1869. Sadly, Willie would die in his father’s arms that day, and so would 108 other miners, all victims of a horrific fire that tore through the shaft, trapping the men and boys and blocking the only exit. The communities of the Wyoming Valley know firsthand the human cost of the anthracite industry. From a cave-in at Twin Shaft to an explosion at the Baltimore Tunnel to the Susquehanna River crashing through the roof at Knox, thousands of miners left for work in the morning never to return. Sadly, few of the tragedies could be called accidents. Profits took precedence over safety, leaving workers to pay the price for negligence, corruption, and greed.

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271045887
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting for the Union Label: The WomenÕs Garment Industry and the ILGWU in Pennsylvania written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The garment industry gained a foothold in Pennsylvania's hard-coal region as mines were closing. "Runaway" factories, especially from Manhattan, set up shop in mining towns where labor was plentiful and unions scarce. By the 1930s, garment factories employed thousands of wives and daughters of unemployed or underemployed coal miners. Organizing these workers proved difficult for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU).

Author : Jane DeMarchi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book Historical Mining Disasters written by Jane DeMarchi and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George A. Spohrer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 33 pages
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Download or read book The Knox Mine Disaster written by George A. Spohrer and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: