Coal mining.
Found in 98 Collections and/or Records:
United Mine Workers Records at Cornell University
Guide to the microfilmed records at the Labor Management Documentation Center of Cornell's M.P. Catherwood Library. Includes the early joint conferences of coal miners and operators, 1899-1920, the District 12 (Illinois) conventions, 1899-1916 and grievance adjustment proceedings, 1899-1927. None of Cornell's holdings pertain directly to West Virginia.
United Pocahontas Coal Company Records
This collection consists mainly of business records of the United Pocahontas Coal Company of Crumpler, West Virginia (McDowell County), including a one-page typescript history of the company, bylaws (1915), business correspondence, and three blueprint maps.
Walter Bledsoe and Company, Archives
Picture guidebook of a coal distributorship founded in 1910 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Gives a brief history of coal mining in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and a description of company mines in each state.
Walter R. Thurmond (1881-1967) Papers
Watson Family Papers
Watson Family Papers
West Virginia Department of Mines Reports
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].
West Virginia University, School of Mines, Records
The collection consists of correspondence, reports, surveys, financial and academic records, circulars, and other papers, including regulations of the National Bituminous Coal Commission and bulletins of various code authorities of the National Recovery Administration. Also included in the collection are correspondence, reports, and other papers (ca.1926-1940) of the Lynchburg Coal & Coke Co.
West Virginia University, School of Mines, Records
Reports and correspondence; and records of finances, appointments, resignations, enrollment and attendance, including extension work.