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C.H. Mead Coal Company

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Coal Mining Disaster Reports Collection

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4203
Overview Mine disaster reports, official hearing reports, and hearing and inquest transcripts (1938-1967). Most of the mine disaster reports were created by inspectors from the West Virginia Department of Mines, and some of them involved federal inspectors. Other reports were created by the United States Bureau of Mines and the West Virginia Department of Mines Coal Mine Safety Board of Review. Also includes volumes 3 through 8 of the Decisions of the Interior Board of Mine...
Dates: 1938-1977

James Laing, Collector, Photographic Postcards Issued by C.H. Mead Coal Company

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3708
Overview Photographic postcards documenting the C.H. Mead Coal Company, a mining company located in the Winding Gulf Coalfield in western Raleigh County and eastern Wyoming County, southern West Virginia. Includes 72 postcards issued by the Company in the 1930s in a numbered series to publicize their facilities and activities. Subjects of images include industrial infrastructure, equipment, offices, coal transport, housing, schools, stores, hospital, and portraits of managers. Some facilities are...
Dates: ca. 1930-1935

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Boone County (W. Va.) 1
Coal mining - Safety. 1
Coal mining - Winding Gulf field. 1
Coal mining - disasters. 1
Harrison County (W. Va.) 1