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• Comprehensive management plan for the Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission : Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Fayette, Fulton, Huntingdon, Indiana, Somerset, and Westmoreland Counties, Pennsylvania (The Center, 1992), by United States. Department of the Interior. Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission and United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comprehensive management plan for the Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission : Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Fayette, Fulton, Huntingdon, Indiana, Somerset, and Westmoreland Counties, Pennsylvania. (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, [National Park Service, Denver Service Center, Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission, 1992), by United States. Dept. of the Interior. Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission and United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Coal, its antiquity. Discovery and early development in the Wyoming Valley. A paper read before the Wyoming historical and geological society, June 17, 1890 (Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, 1890), by George Brubaker Kulp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The elements of coal mining (The Colliery Engineer Co., 1897) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Coal, its antiquity : discovery and early development in the Wyoming Valley : paper read before the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, June 27, 1890 (Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, 1892), by Geo. B. Kulp and Wyoming Historical and Geological Society (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Report of the geological survey of Pennsylvania ... 1885-1887 (Board of commissioners for the geological survey, 1885), by Pennsylvania. State Geologist (1874-1890), Pennsylvania. Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey, and Pennsylvania. Geological Survey (1874-1890) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The anthracite coal industry; a study of the economic conditions and relations of the co-operative forces in the development of the anthracite coal industry of Pennsylvania (The Macmillan Company;, 1901), by Peter Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Department of Mines of Pennsylvania. (The Department, 1903), by Pennsylvania. Department of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• In non-union mines ; the diary of a coal digger in central Pennsylvania, August-September, 1921. (Bureau of industrial research, 1922), by Powers Hapgood and Bureau of Industrial Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conditions in the coal fields of Pennsylvania. (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1928), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anthracite (Industries Publishing Company, 1925), by John Kimberly Mumford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The coal regions of Pennsylvania. (E. N. Carvalho & co., 1848), by Eli Bowen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reflections of an anthracite engineer. (Printed for private distribution [pref]., 1931), by George E. Stevenson and Leonor Fresnel Loree (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two reports: on the coal lands, mines and improvements of the Dauphin and Susquehanna coal company, and of the geological examinations, present condition and prospects of the Stony Creek coal estate, in the townships of Jackson, Rush, and Middle Paxtang, in the county of Dauphin, and of East Hanover township, in the county of Lebanon, Pennsylvania. With an appendix, containing numerous tables and statistical information, and various maps, sections, and diagrams, chiefly in illustration of coal and iron (E.G. Dorsey, printer, 1840), by Richard C. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abstract of a report on the coal and iron estate of the Little Schuylkill Navigation Rail Road and Coal Company, from actual survey made by authority of the managers of the company in October, 1845. (J.C. Clark, 1846), by William F. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• A special report to the Legislature upon the causes, kinds, and amount of waste in mining anthracite. (Pub. by the Board of commissioners for the Second geological survey, 1881), by Franklin Platt, John Price Wetherill, and Pennsylvania. Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• First report of progress in the anthracite coal region. The geology of the Panther creek basin or eastern end of the southern field (Pub. by the Board of commissioners for the Second geological survey, 1883), by Charles A. Ashburner, Arthur Winslow, and C. L. Doolittle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Second report of progress in the anthracite coal region. Part I, Statistics of production and shipment for 1883 and 1884 (Pub. by the Board of commissioners for the Second geological survey, 1885), by Charles A. Ashburner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the mining methods and appliances used in the anthracite coal fields (Pub. by the Board of commissioners for the Second geological survey, 1883), by H. M. Chance (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of progress in the Cambria and Somerset district of the bituminous coal-fields of western Pennsylvania (Pub. by the Board of commissioners for the Second geological survey, 1877), by Franklin Platt and William Greenough Platt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of progress in Indiana County (Pub. by the Board of commissioners for the Second geological survey, 1878), by William Greenough Platt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the coal mines of the Monongahela river region, from the West-Virginia state line to Pittsburgh, including the mines on the lower Yougghiogheny river (Pub. by the Board of commissioners for the Second geological survey, 1884), by J. Sutton Wall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report (The Board, 1874), by Pennsylvania. Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A summary description of the geology of Pennsylvania (Geological survey of Pennsylvania, 1892), by J. P. Lesley and Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. Board of Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Backfilling problem in the anthracite region as it relates to conservation of anthracite and prevention on subsidence (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1946), by S. H. Ash and James Westfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why men were killed at Pennsylvania anthracite mines in 1950 (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1951), by John J. V. Forbes and H. F. Weaver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern automatic electrically controlled elevators for transporting men at two coal mines in Western Pennsylvania (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1952), by J. W. Holcomb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mine subsidence--extent and cost of control in a selected area. (U.S. Bureau of Mines; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1971), by William Cochran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Study of subsidence of a highway caused by mining coal beneath (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1941), by Earl R. Maize, H. P. Greenwald, and Edward Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected geologic factors affecting mining of the Pittsburgh coalbed (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1975), by C. M. McCulloch, Maurice Deul, B. M. Bench, W. P. Diamond, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Methods of determining the orientations of bedrock fracture systems in southwestern Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1977), by Bernard M. Bench, C. M. McCulloch, and W. P. Diamond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Strata interactions in multiple-seam mining--two case studies in Pennsylvania (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1986), by G. J. Chekan, James A. Galek, and Rudy J. Matetic (page images at HathiTrust)
• Methane emission rate studies in a central Pennsylvania mine (U.S. Dept. of Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1971), by Stephen Krickovic, Charles Findlay, Pittsburgh Mining and Safety Research Center (U.S.), and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geology, mining, and methane content of the Freeport and Kittanning coalbeds in Indiana and surrounding counties, Pa. (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1979), by D. G. Puglio and Anthony Iannacchione (page images at HathiTrust)
• Microfilming maps of abandoned anthracite mines : mines in the Western middle anthracite field (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1971), by G. B. Gait (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water problem in the Pennsylvania anthracite mining region (U.S. Dept of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1941), by S. H. Ash and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effects of horizontal stress related to stream valleys on the stability of coal mine openings (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1992), by J. R. Jones, D. C. Oyler, K. A. Heasley, G. M. Molinda, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Design and testing of Bureau of Mines coal planer (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1957), by John Willard Buch, John T. Schimmel, Walter R. Griffith, and United States Department of the Interior (page images at HathiTrust)
• Montour 10 Mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1937), by G. S. Rice, Irving Hartmann, E. R. Maize, and H. P. Greenwald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Private police, with special reference to Pennsylvania (The American academy of political and social science, 1933), by J. P. Shalloo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to a history of ironmaking and coal mining in Pennsylvania. (Pub. by the author, 1878), by James Moore Swank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statistical analysis of coal mine accidents in Pennsylvania, 1916 to 1922 inclusive. (Harrisburg, 1924), by Pennsylvania Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau. Coal Mine Section (page images at HathiTrust)
• Regional shifts in the bituminous coal industry, with special reference to Pennsylvania (Bureau of Business Research, University of Pittsburgh, 1935), by Wilbert Garold Fritz and Theodore Arthur Veenstra (page images at HathiTrust)
• Microfilming maps of abandoned anthracite mines : mines in the Lackawanna Basin, northern anthracite field (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1970), by G. B. Gait and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Methods of development and pillar extraction in mining the Pittsburgh coal bed in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1935), by J. W. Paul and Leopold Nicholas Plein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Explosions in Pennsylvania coal mines, 1870-1932 (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Mines, 1933), by John Joseph Vincent Forbes, H. B. Humphrey, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Safety achievements of a Pennsylvania bituminous-coal mine and of a coal-mine superintendent (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Mines, 1930), by Francis Feehan and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Timbering regulations in certain coal mines of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio (U.S.Bureau of Mines, 1930), by J. W. Paul, Donald Loammi Sibray, Joseph Gladstone Calverley, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of mine roof of the Pittsburgh coal bed in the Pittsburgh mining district (U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1932), by J. W. Paul, Leopold Nicholas Plein, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of mine roof of the coking district of Western Pennsylvania (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1935), by J. W. Paul and Leopold Nicholas Plein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Data on pumping at the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1950), by S. H. Ash (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stream water quality in the coal region of Pennsylvania (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, 1982), by Kenneth L. Dyer, Pa.) Northeastern Forest Experiment Station (Radnor, and Ohio) Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory (Cincinnati (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the committee on the judiciary, general, of the Senate of Pennsylvania : in relation to the anthracite coal difficulties, with the accompanying testimony. (B. Singerly, state printer, 1871), by Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anthracite mining laws of Pennsylvania. (Harrisburg.), by Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania. Department of Mines and Mineral Industries (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bituminous mining law of Pennsylvania. (C.E. Aughinbaugh, 1911), by Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)
• The black trail of anthracite (S. R. Smith, 1907), by S. R. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comparative views of the most important anthracite collieries in Pennsylvania. (W. F. Geddes, 1835) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Coal in Pennsylvania, recent developments and prospects; a report to the Joint State Government Commission, General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. ([Harrisburg], 1963), by Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Joint State Government Commission. Panel of Technical Advisors on Coal Marketing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the commissioners. (B. F. Meyers, state printer, 1875), by Pennsylvania. Commission to investigate the bituminous coal mines of Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two reports: on the coal lands, mines and improvements of the Dauphin and Susquehanna coal company, and of the geological examinations, present condition and prospects of the Stony Creek coal estate, in the townships of Jackson, Rush, and Middle Paxtang, in the country of Dauphin, and of East Hanover township (E. G. Dorsey, printer, 1840), by Richard C. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Atlas of Pennsylvania coal and coal mining (College of Mineral Industries, Pennsylvania State University, 1959), by George F. Deasy and Phyllis Rice Griess (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conditions in the coal fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio. Hearings before the Committee on interstate commerce, United States Senate, Seventieth Congress, first session, pursuant to S. Res. 105, a resolution to investigate conditions in the coal fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio. (U.S. Govt. print. off., 1928), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania and their exhaustion : read before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at Saratoga, September 1st, 1879 (L.S. Hart, 1881), by P. W. Sheafer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mining of thin coal beds in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania (U.S. Govt. print. off., 1927), by Dever Campbell Ashmead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports upon the West Hazleton and Cattawissa Falls and the East Mahanoy coal and iron estates, situate in Luzerne and Schuylkill counties, Pa., containing eleven thousand acres, extending eight miles from north to south, and crossing the Mahanoy, the Beaver Meadow and summit, the Hazleton and the Black Creek coal fields. (J.C. Clark, printer, 1846), by William F. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philadelphia, Pottsville, and Reading railroad (Moore, 1854), by Eli Bowen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description of the Tangascootac Bituminous coal lands, in Clinton County, Penn. (Chatterton, 1854), by P. W. Sheafer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the receivers 1880, 1885 (Philadelphia., in the 19th century), by Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co, Reading Company, and Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mining statutes of the state of Pennsylvania (summarized) (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Mines, 1932), by J. A. Huff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Factors and conditions that aid in alinement of pillar extraction lines in coal mining (U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1933), by John Nicholas Geyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania for ... (Board of Commissioners for the Geological Survey, 1886), by Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, J. P. Lesley, and Pennsylvania. Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of progress in the Cambria and Somerset districts of the bituminous coal-fields of western Pennsylvania (Published by the Board of Commissions for the Second Geological Survey, 1877), by Franklin Platt, E. B. Harden, John Fulton, and William Greenough Platt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Department of Mines of Pennsylvania. (The Department., 1800), by Pennsylvania. Dept. of Mines and Pennsylvania. Inspector of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bituminous mining laws of Pennsylvania, 1910. (C.E. Aughinbaugh, 1910), by Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Bureau of Mines of the Department of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania. (W.S. Ray, state printer, 1897), by Pennsylvania. Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glance at the coal trade. (B. Bannan, printer , 1855), by Ele Bowen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of Commission appointed to investigate the waste of coal mining, with the view to the utilizing of the waste ... May, 1893. (Allen, Lane & Scott's Printing House, 1893), by Pennsylvania. Commission to Investigate Waste of Coal Mining (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pennsylvania bituminous mine inspector's examination : questions and answers. (Mine Safety Appliances Co., 1920), by W. Galloway Duncan and Mine Safety Appliances Co. (Pittsburgh) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pennsylvania anthracite coal field (Govt. print. off., 1902), by H. H. Stoek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Franklin Coal Company : report and geological survey. (Wright & Potter, 1863), by Charles T. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania for 1885-1887 (Published by the Board of Commissioners for the Geological Survey, 1886), by Geological Survey of Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anthracite mining laws of Pennsylvania (The Dept., in the 1930s), by Pennsylvania. Dept. of Mines and Mineral Industries (page images at HathiTrust)
• Operation scarlift : the after effects of over 100 years of coal mining in Pennsylvania and current programs to combat them. (Pennsylvania Dept. of Mines and Mineral Industries, 1967), by Pennsylvania. Dept. of Mines and Mineral Industries (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report: anthracite and bituminous coal activities. (Harrisburg., 1970), by Pennsylvania. Dept. of Environmental Resources, Pennsylvania. Oil and Gas Division, Pennsylvania. Bituminous Coal Division, and Pennsylvania. Anthracite Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Coal in Pennsylvania : recent developments and prospects ; a report (The Commission, 1963), by Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Joint State Government Commission Panel of Technical Advisors on Coal Marketing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mineral resorces of Johnstown, Pennsylvania and vicinity (Government Printing Office, 1911), by William Clifton Phalen, Lawrence Martin, and Pennsylvania. Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buried black treasure; the story of Pennsylvania anthracite ("Buried Black treasure", 1954), by Arthur Willard Fey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the committee on the judiciary general, of the Senate of Pennsylvania, in relation to the anthracite coal difficulties, with the accompanying testimony. (B. Singerly, state printer, 1871), by Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address to the public by the Lackawaxen Coal Mine and Navigation Company, relative to the proposed canal from the Hudson to the head waters of the Lackawaxen River. (Printed by Wm. Grattan ..., 1824), by Lackawaxen Coal Mine and Navigation Company, Charles Herman Ruggles, Abraham Cantine, DeWitt Clinton, and New York (State) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Economic conditions in the anthracite coal regions. Letter from the Federal Anthracite Coal Commission transmitting pursuant to public law no. 355 (H.J. Res. no. 255) approved December 19, 1941, the report of the Commission created to investigate ways and means for improving economic conditions in the anthracite coal producing regions of the United States, together with recommendations for both short-term and long-term measures of improvement ... (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1942), by United States. Federal Anthracite Coal Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anthraco-silicosis among hard coal miners. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1936), by United States Public Health Service (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania: 1875. (Pub. by the Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey, 1876), by John J. Stevenson and Geological Survey of Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report upon a body of land underlaid with anthracite coal, situated in the valley of the Lackawanna in the counties of Luzerne & Wayne, state of Pennsylvania, in 1863. (Davis & Fitzgerald, 1865), by North Carbondale Coal Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports of the inspectors of mines of the anthracite and bituminous coal regions of Pennsylvania ... 1888-1896. (E. K. Meyers, state printer [etc.], 1889), by Pennsylvania. Inspectors of Mines and Pennsylvania. Department of internal affairs annual report (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bituminous mining laws of Pennsylvania. ([s.n.], 1936), by Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania. Department of Mines and Mineral Industries (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hydrogeologic considerations for sealing coal mines (The Department, 1969), by Pennsylvania. Bureau of Sanitary Engineering, Grover Harry Emrich, D. R. Thompson, and Pennsylvania. Dept. of Health (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geology of oil and gas in relation to coal (Bureau of Topographic and Geological Survey, 1920), by Geo. H. Ashley and Pennsylvania. Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• River and creek coal in eastern Pennsylvania (Bureau of Topographic and Geological Survey, 1920), by C. W. Webbert and Pennsylvania. Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pyrite from bituminous coal mines in Pennsylvania (Bureau of Topographic and Geological Survey, 1922), by Henry Leighton and Pennsylvania. Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effect of the war on the price of coal in Pennsylvania (Bureau of Topographic and Geological Survey, 1919), by Geo. H. Ashley and Pennsylvania. Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bituminous coal reserves in Pennsylvania (Bureau of Topographic and Geological Survey, 1922), by John F. Reese and Pennsylvania. Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Future use of raw coal (Bureau of Topographic and Geological Survey, 1922), by Geo. H. Ashley and Pennsylvania. Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey (page images at HathiTrust)

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