Winding Gulf Collieries
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Ernest Glenwood Otey (1895-1966) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1909
Overview
Correspondence, financial records, speeches, reports, blueprints, and pamphlets of a Bluefield banker and businessman who was a treasurer of the Democratic Executive Committee and a member of the Board of Governors of West Virginia University. Subjects include numerous businesses in the Bluefield area, Bluefield State College, Concord College, Bank of Bramwell, Island Creek Coal Company, Norfolk and Western Railroad, Pocahontas Fuel Company, Smokeless Operators Association, Virginia Railway,...
Dates:
1935-1965
Major W. P. Tams, Jr. Transcript of an Interview
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2584
Overview
Transcript of an interview by Richard Hadsell with Major W.P. Tams, Jr., former mine operator in the Winding Gulf coal mining region. Tams discusses his early days in coal mining, the opening of the Kanawha coal region, and coal operators and union officials such as: E.J. Berwind, Joe Beury, George Collins, Jarius Collins, Justus Collins, John J. Cornwell, Samuel Dixon, Elias Hatfield, Troy Hatfield, Isaac Mann, S.T. Patterson, J.A. Renahan, James O. Watts, and George Wolfe. Other...
Dates:
1825-1934
Smokeless Fuel Co. Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1928
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, reports, financial records, pamphlets, maps, photographs, clippings, and other papers of a coal company operating in southern West Virginia. Subjects include operators' associations, wages, prices, mine inspection reports, sales, strip mining, and freight rates. Other firms mentioned include the Winding Gulf Collieries, Charleston Coal Co., Piney Coking Coal Land Co., Juliette Coal Co., LaMar Colliery Co., Phelps Coal Co., George Creek Coal Co.,...
Dates:
1935-1957
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 2
- Railroads 2
- Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 2
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Atwater. 1
- Banks - Bank of Bramwell. 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
- Coal - Smokeless Coal Fields. 1
- Coal companies - Beaver Coal Company. 1
- Coal companies - Smokeless Coal Fields. 1
- Coal mining - Beaver Coal Company. 1
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
- Coal mining - Scrip. 1
- Coal mining - Strip mining. 1
- Coal mining - company stores. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal trade 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Maps. 1
- N&W Railroads - railroads. 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Virginia Railroad. 1
- Scrip. 1
- Smokeless Coal Fields - coal. 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions -- Coal 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Virginian Railroad -- Railroads 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
- Women's history -- 1951-present 1 + ∧ less
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