Industry

A Fine Substantial Piece of Masonry:<br>Scranton's Historic Iron Furnaces
This liberally illustrated booklet provides a fascinating and comprehensive history of these historic furnaces.
Regular price: $6.95
Sale price: $5.00
Coal and Coke in Pennsylvania
A comprehensive treatise on the bituminous coal and coke industry predominant in western Pennsylvania.
$8.95
Delaware and Lehigh Canals
Rich in photography, this volume features canals that were built in the early nineteenth century primarily to move coal.
$24.95
Fighting for the Union Label
This book describes how workers built one of the largest and most activist garment worker movements in U.S. history.
$19.95
Heartwood
Traces the intertwined lives of two men with common roots in the rugged timbering industry of northcentral Pennsylvania
$17.95
Industry and Infantry: The Civil War in Western Pennsylvania
This collection of articles, cuylled from eight decades of Western Pennsylvania History magazine, encompasses a broad and compelling array of topics.
$19.99
Monessen:<br>Industrial Boomtown and Steel Community, 1898-1980
Traces the development of this mill town and discusses how its residents were affected by the industrial environment.
Regular price: $5.00
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Oil Creek … the Beginning: A History and Guide to the Early Oil Industry in Pennsylvania
Presented by Oil Creek Press, this book that takes you to Venango County in the 1860s and 1870s, where the world’s oil industry was formed.
$19.00
Oil on the Brain
This book tells of the fascinating history of the early days of oil discovery in the Pennsylvania.
Regular price: $44.95
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Out of This Furnace: A Novel of Immigrant Labor in America
This novel tells the compelling story of three generations of an immigrant Slovak family working in the steel mills of Braddock in Pittsburgh.
$15.95
Pennsylvania Mountain Stories
This collection of vintage stories was gathered by the author during his travels at the early part of the twentieth century.
$23.95
Pennsylvania's Delaware Division Canal: Sixty Miles of Euphoria and Frustration
A definitive history of the Delaware Canal, which flows from Easton in Northampton County through Bucks County to Bristol.
$32.95
Spotza, Keelers, and Stirred Sugar
Farmers tap the trees for their sweet sap, which is made into maple sugar and syrup for commercial sale.
$19.95
The Bradford Oil Refinery
This book showcases the company’s evolution from a fledgling refinery along the Kendall Creek to the sophisticated operation it is today.
$19.99
The Iron Industry in Pennsylvania
Chronicles the history of the Pennsylvania iron industry from the first forge in 1716 through the twentieth century.
$9.95
The Lehigh Valley Cement Industry
The rich deposit of limestone known as the Jacksonburg Formation still provides the raw material for the Lehigh district’s famous high-quality Portland cement.
$19.99
The Mauch Chunk Switchback: America's Pioneer Railroad
This book contains more than 400 photos and drawings depicting the world-famous gravity railroad.
$39.95
Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-era Philadelphia
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.
Regular price: $40.00
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