West Virginia. Department of Mines
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Broadside Collection
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4767
Scope and Contents
This collection was created through the composition of materials removed from other A&M collections, staff collected materials, and the merging of smaller collections. As a result, this collection covers a wide range of activities and movements from West Virginia and the larger Appalachian region. The subject areas of the collection include: 1) state petitions, and government announcements, 1777-1979; 2) public announcements, public sales, and advertisements, 1853-1899; 3) elections,...
Dates:
1777-2012 and undated
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
Lloyd W. Brown, Engineer, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1063
Overview
Field engineer with the West Virginia Department of Mines. The collection includes papers on coal mine inspection, accidents, safety, and other aspects of mining. There are also several blueprints, maps, and drawings of various mining operations in West Virginia.
Dates:
1901-1932
West Virginia Department of Mines Reports
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2143
Scope and Contents
Accident and inspection reports from the West Virginia Department of Mines, subdivided into: fatal accidents [1919-1932]; nonfatal accidents [1916-1932]; minor accidents [1919-1932]; inspection reports [1919-1927]; and sand mines and prosecutions [1927-1932].
Dates:
1916-1932
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Coal mining - Safety. 3
- Coal mining - disasters. 2
- Coal mining. 2
- Appalachian Region 1
- Blair Mountain, Battle of, W. Va., 1921 1
- Boone County (W. Va.) 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Campus protests -- West Virginia University 1
- Civil War - West Virginia. 1
- Coal companies - West Virginia. 1
- Coal mine accidents 1
- Coal miners--West Virginia 1
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
- Feminism 1
- Football -- West Virginia -- Morgantown 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Labor disputes -- West Virginia -- 20th century -- History 1
- Maps. 1
- Marshall County (W. Va.) 1
- McDowell County (W. Va.) 1
- Mine explosions 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Nicholas County (W. Va.) 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Raleigh County (W. Va.) 1
- Socialism 1
- Strikes -- West Virginia -- Coal miners 1
- Temperance and prohibition. 1
- Tucker County (W. Va.) 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia Mine Wars, W. Va., 1897-1921 1
- Women -- Suffrage 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- Wyoming County (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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