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Coal mining - Mechanization.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Aaron Chipps, Coal Miner, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3129
Overview

The collection of the papers of a Morgantown coal miner and electrician focuses upon the development of coal mining technology. It includes operations and maintenance manuals, diagrams, and catalogs for a variety of mining equipment and parts. It also includes notes and material for Chipp's study of mining technology and electricity.

Dates: 1912-1955
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles E. Krebs (1870-1954) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1792
Overview Scrapbooks, mainly of newspaper clippings, maintained by a mining engineer, geologist, and businessman from Charleston. The scrapbooks contain clippings, announcements, and a few letters relating to Krebs' business, Charleston civic affairs, and professional engineering organizations. Topics covered include: the oil boom at Blue Creek in 1912; oil field development in Kanawha and Clay counties; oil and coal shipments on the C.&O.; coal, oil, gas, and coke production figures; report on...
Dates: 1912, 1935, 1939
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Keith Dix, Papers regarding Labor History

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2800
Overview A collection of typescripts, brochures, pamphlets, books, tape recordings, and assorted ephemeral publications concerning radical political and economic groups and community organizing related to labor history in Appalachia and the United States as compiled by Keith Dix. Organizations and publications represented in the collection include New Directions in Labor (1970-1971), New American Movement (1970-1971), New University Conference (1971), Labor Research Association (1971), Students for a...
Dates: 1923-1976
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Woodrow Mosley, Coal Miner, Interview Transcript

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3055
Overview

Transcript of an interview with a retired coal miner of Lincoln County, WV. Mosley lived and worked in the coal fields of Logan County, WV and Pike County, KY most of his life. He started to work in 1929 when mining was still done by pick and shovel and retired in the early sixties when mining had become mechanized. He describes the changes in mining technology he experienced and the effect of unionization in the coal mining region of southern West Virginia.

Dates: 1988
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center