Coal mining - disasters.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Phil Primack, Photographer, Photographs of the Hurricane Creek Mine Disaster and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4497
Scope and Contents
Digital copies of negatives (35 mm) and some prints of photographs shot by photographer Phil Primack, who at one time worked for the Mountain Eagle newspaper in Whitesburg, KY. Subjects include the Hurricane Creek Mine Disaster (1970), the Buffalo Creek flood disaster (1972), the Miners for Democracy convention in Wheeling, West Virginia (1972, undated), a UMWA rally on Labor Day (1972), a "Miners for Miller" event in Evarts, KY, and the UMWA 46th Constitutional Convention (1973), the first...
Dates:
1970-1973
Reverend C. Shirley Donnelly Collection
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4590
Scope and Contents
Reverend C. Shirley Donnelly, a Baptist minister and local historian, collected these materials for his own research and interest in West Virginia history. The collection contains various materials pertaining to coal mining and West Virginia history, especially in the New River area and Fayette County. It includes correspondence, land grant and deed records, pamphlets, journals, local histories, records, photographs, and art relating to mining and life in the New River area. One set of...
Dates:
1731, 1781-1992, and undated; Majority of material found within 1860-1980
Winding Gulf Coals, Inc. Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1525
Overview
The collection consists of ledgers, journals, and cashbooks of the Goodwill Coal and Coke Co., Greenbrier Coal and Coke Co., Gulf Coal Co., Louisville Coal and Coke Co., Winding Gulf Coal and Coke Co., and the Winding Gulf Colliery Co., with some material on the operation of company stores. There is also correspondence (1911-1915) between the managers of mines at Winding Gulf and Davy, West Virginia, discussing production levels, availability of railroad cars and freight rates, New River and...
Dates:
1888-1950