Electric industries
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Electric Street Railways History
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2619
Overview
Copy of a handwritten memoir by Mr. C.D. Herbst concerning his career as an engineer with the West Penn Power Company, and a copy of a booklet on the history and development of electric street railways in Parkersburg, West Virginia and Marietta, Ohio.
Dates:
1930, 1962
Herschel Ice, Geologist, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4771
Scope and Contents
Papers of Herschel Conaway Ice (1900-1993), a geologist specialist at the Monongahela Power Company's Fairmont Office. Part of Ice's work included consulting on geological matters for industrial development projects. Materials include newspaper clippings, publications, photographs, a journal, and personal papers and ephemera. Newspaper articles are generally regarding professional life and Kiwanis involvement, including two about his directing a “Kiwanstrel” (Kiwani Minstrel) show...
Dates:
1928-1984
William Milo Barnum (1856-1926) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2573
Overview
Correspondence (including 6 volumes of letter books) relating to firms in which Barnum was an executive, including the Henrico Coal Co. and Kanawha Improvement Co., West Virginia, National Mining Co. and Wells Farm Land and Mining Co., New York. The collection documents mining and railroad promotion in Appalachia and the eastern midwest states. The collection was formerly part of the records of the Pacific Coast Coal and Oil Co. of which Barnum was chairman of the Board of Directors...
Dates:
1882-1899