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Coal mines and mining

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85027364

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Alabama Coal and Iron records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0062
Overview Correspondence, annual reports and audits, maps, and other material related to coal and iron production in Alabama.
Dates: 1874 - 1943

Alabama Industrial and Scientific Society records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0038
Overview Materials relating to the organization, including: meeting minutes, account books, lists of members and officers, and other items.
Dates: 1890 - 1900

Alabama Power Company Coal Mines

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0046
Overview Variety of reports from Alabama Power Company's Gorgas, Marvel, Blocton, and Cahaba coal mines in the mid-20th century.
Dates: 1941-1968

Bessemer Coal, Iron, and Land Company records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0145
Abstract This collection contains much of the business correspondence and records of the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land Company, including lists of stock holders, minutes of meetings, maps of mine sites, and correspondence with government entities.
Dates: 1886-1982

Birmingham Coal and Coke Company shipping records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0160
Abstract Ledger of shipping records including destinations, prices and kinds of coal, dates, etc.
Dates: 1920-1923

Brookside-Pratt Mining Company records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0215
Overview This collection contains the pay records for W.M. Meadows for the year of 1919 at the Brookside-Pratt Mining Company.
Dates: 1919

Cahaba Coal Mining Company meeting minutes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3805
Overview Meeting minutes for this Alabama coal mining company
Dates: 1892 September 16

Central Iron and Coal Company Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-009
Overview Central Iron and Coal photographic collection consist of images depicting different aspects of coal and iron production, from mining to building a furnace and transporting the material by train, as well as workers' houses, offices, and stores. Some of the photographs have locations identified as Bibbville and Vance, Alabama.
Dates: 1901 - 1903

Cobb Coal Company records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0322
Overview This collection contains records from an Alabama coal company.
Dates: 1924-1981

Cobb Coal Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-007
Abstract Collection consists of photographs of Cobb coal mining.
Dates: 1924 - 1981

Confederate States of America, War Department, Nitre and Mining Bureau, District 10 letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0350
Overview Letter dated 4 October 1864, from W.H.C. Price, Superintendent of the C.S.A. War Department's Nitre and Mining District 10, to P.J. Weaver, requesting his urgent cooperation in the manufacturing of nitre.
Dates: 1864 October 4

Walter R. Crane notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0366
Overview Two bound notebooks of handwritten lecture notes made by Walter R. Crane
Dates: after 1870

J. M. Duncan papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0456
Abstract A collection of correspondence, financial papers, and artifacts belonging to this Blocton, Alabama, resident.
Dates: 1894-1932

Ethel Armes letters

 Collection
Identifier: W-0146
Overview Letter to Robert Jemison Jr. of Birmingham, Alabama, about uncredited copying of material from her book, The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama, and a letter to her brother about a promotion.
Dates: 1921 - 1944

Henry DeBardeleben business records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0052
Overview Official meeting minutes, stockholder letters, stock certificates, and legal documents produced by the DeBardeleben Coal Corporation, the Bessemer Land and Improvement Company, and the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land Company.
Dates: 1886 - 1953; Majority of material found within 1886 - 1905

J. A. Montgomery business records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0068
Overview Correspondence, time book, and ledger of Birmingham, Alabama, industrialist J. A. Montgomery.
Dates: 1889 - 1898

Milner Coal and Railroad Company meeting minutes

 Collection
Identifier: W-0101
Overview Minutes of directors and stockholders' meetings between 1900 and 1910
Dates: 1900-1910

Pauline Jones Gandrud papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0555
Overview The collection contains genealogical research notes covering 1820-1880, including county data, church and marriage records, family histories, and other information created and gathered by this Alabama genealogist. The collection also contains a list of military pension and bounty land applications.
Dates: 1900 - 1980

Robert Praytor booklet

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3629
Overview Booklet Firing Em Up!: Cahaba Coal Mining Co., 1889: Historic Beehive Coke Ovens, Blocton AL by Robert Praytor.
Dates: 1998

Segco Mine Number One papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1241
Overview Final inspection report and blueprints for Segco Mine Number One
Dates: 1966

Joseph Squire autobiography

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2298
Overview Joseph Squire's autobiography
Dates: Unknown

Nicholas B. Stack papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1333
Abstract Scrapbooks and other documents of this Birmingham, Alabama, politician dealing with Birmingham politics, mining strikes, and other business endeavors.
Dates: 1884 - 1938; Majority of material found within 1908 - 1936