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Eileen Mountjoy In 1990, the centennial year of the United Mine Workers of America, will be marked by celebrations, both large and small, across the coal fields of several states. On an international scale, the United...
In 1991, a marker was raised to commemorate a 1926 mine disaster in Clymer, Pennsylvania in which 44 miners died.
Primary Sources about the Windber Miners' Strike for Union in 1922-1923 Photographs of Eureka Mine No. 37 at Windber, Pennsylvania Unveiling of marker recalls mine event that killed 44 at Clymer No. 1 Mining Injuries ...
The Coal Strike of 1919 in Indiana County and its Aftermath Remembering the 1906 Strike for Union in Windber, Pennsylvania Primary Sources about the Windber Miners' Strike for Union in 1922-1923 The CBC Community of C...
Eileen Mountjoy During 1920 and 1921, western Pennsylvania's coal mine operators campaigned vigorously to slash wages of the miners they employed. Because demand for coal declined after World War One the operators wer...
This website was created to identify images and resources that document the lives of western Pennsylvania coal miners and their families from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Eileen Mountjoy This article is dedicated to the memory of Lillian Roof. Many books and articles have been written about the lives of early Pennsylvania coal miners and their involvement in labor-management strife, un...
IUP Special Collections presents essays and photo collections from mines and company towns in Western Pennsylvania.
The Institute for Mine Mapping, Archival Procedures and Safety (IMAPS) has broad-ranging goals. These include the improvement of safety within Pennsylvania Coal mining, improved services such as mine subsidence insura...
Essays, histories, and anecdotes about the people involved in Pennsylvania Coal Culture.
