This liberally illustrated booklet provides a fascinating and comprehensive history of these historic furnaces.

A comprehensive treatise on the bituminous coal and coke industry predominant in western Pennsylvania.

This book revisits Pennsylvania’s most notorious mining accidents and rescue attempts from 1869 to 1943 through original journal and newspaper accounts.

This book describes how workers built one of the largest and most activist garment worker movements in U.S. history.

This stunning book chronicles Horgan’s life and his coal region photographs.

The author provides a wide-ranging portrait of this important iron plantation, which functioned for 110 years, ceasing operations finally in 1922.

This book tells of the fascinating history of the early days of oil discovery in the Pennsylvania.

This liberally illustrated book covers many phases of the development of the state’s transportation systems.

This rich book tells the important story of Pennsylvania’s oil boom, using both the actual words and images of first-hand observers in the nineteenth century.

Through vintage photographs culled from the Plymouth Meeting Historical Society and local residents this book revisits this regions history.

Farmers tap the trees for their sweet sap, which is made into maple sugar and syrup for commercial sale.

Recalls coal mining disasters between 1869 and 1959.

Chronicles the history of the Pennsylvania iron industry from the first forge in 1716 through the twentieth century.

This book contains more than 400 photos and drawings depicting the world-famous gravity railroad.

Vintondale, in Cambria County, was a coal-mining town with a notorious reputation based on an antiunion legacy that lasted until the New Deal.

The author outlines the factors that were instrumental in the success of Local 8, both ideological and pragmatic, including the IWW’s commitment to working-class solidarity and eliminating the racial divisions.

With this volume, readers learn about the women who worked in factories, walked picket lines, fought for the vote, managed family life, and battled urban conditions during the transformative years between 1865 and 1940.