 | In this book, the author rethinks the religious roots of labor organizing and social reform in America during the 1930s. |
|  | This liberally illustrated booklet provides a fascinating and comprehensive history of these historic furnaces. |
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 | An account of a family and community spanning more than one hundred and sixty years of coal-mining history. |
|  | A comprehensive treatise on the bituminous coal and coke industry predominant in western Pennsylvania. |
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 | This unique era has left an indelible mark on the land, the communities, and the people of this region. |
|  | This book revisits Pennsylvania’s most notorious mining accidents and rescue attempts from 1869 to 1943 through original journal and newspaper accounts. |
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 | Rich in photography, this volume features canals that were built in the early nineteenth century primarily to move coal. |
|  | This book describes how workers built one of the largest and most activist garment worker movements in U.S. history. |
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 | Details the construction of a system of massive dams and deep locks that was considered an engineering marvel. |
|  | This stunning book chronicles Horgan’s life and his coal region photographs. |
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 | This collection of articles, cuylled from eight decades of Western Pennsylvania History magazine, encompasses a broad and compelling array of topics. |
|  | The author provides a wide-ranging portrait of this important iron plantation, which functioned for 110 years, ceasing operations finally in 1922. |
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 | Traces the development of this mill town and discusses how its residents were affected by the industrial environment. |
|  | This book tells of the fascinating history of the early days of oil discovery in the Pennsylvania. |
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 | This novel tells the compelling story of three generations of an immigrant Slovak family working in the steel mills of Braddock in Pittsburgh. |
|  | This liberally illustrated book covers many phases of the development of the state’s transportation systems. |
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 | A definitive history of the Delaware Canal, which flows from Easton in Northampton County through Bucks County to Bristol. |
|  | 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. |
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 | This is the story of hard coal pioneer Jacob Cist and how he played a central role in the drama of Pennsylvania anthracite. |
|  | Through vintage photographs culled from the Plymouth Meeting Historical Society and local residents this book revisits this regions history. |
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 | In her memoir, the author offers a sociological and architectural tour of her adoptive town of Pittsburgh and tells a remarkable, highly personal story. |
|  | Farmers tap the trees for their sweet sap, which is made into maple sugar and syrup for commercial sale. |
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 | Perspectives on the “Great Strike” results from the hundredth anniversary commemoration of the 1902 anthracite coal strike. |
|  | Recalls coal mining disasters between 1869 and 1959. |
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 | This book offers a sweeping history of the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania. |
|  | Chronicles the history of the Pennsylvania iron industry from the first forge in 1716 through the twentieth century. |
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 | 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. |
|  | This book contains more than 400 photos and drawings depicting the world-famous gravity railroad. |
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 | This is an impressively researched, well-written, and concise account of the Avondale mine disaster. |
|  | Vintondale, in Cambria County, was a coal-mining town with a notorious reputation based on an antiunion legacy that lasted until the New Deal. |
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 | Included are the logging railroad operations of the Whitmer-Steele Company. |
|  | 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. |
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 | 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. |
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