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From Monuments to Memory Sites: Representing Pennsylvania's Anthracite Industry in Public Sculpture, 1855-2010 (2008)

Jadviga M. da Costa Nunes (Author)

IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Volume: 34
Issue: 1/2
Pages: 101-116

URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41473709

Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: THEME ISSUE: IA IN ART
Language: English

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Railroads Sculpture Technology and art Monuments Coal Mines and Mining Coal Industry Coal, Anthracite Industrial archaeology Memory 19th century Pennsylvania (U.S.)

Located primarily in the northeast corner of Pennsylvania (Luzerne, Lackawanna, Carbon, Columbia, Schuylkill, and Northumberland Counties), in an area about 120 miles long and 40 miles wide, the fossil fuel known as anthracite—or hard coal—was first discovered in the mid-eighteenth century. Naturally high in carbon and low in sulfur content, anthracite is slow burning, virtually smokeless, and clean; yet can generate extremely high levels of energy. Despite these superior characteristics, the mining of anthracite as a viable business endeavor occurred only slowly during the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Not only did it take time to fully understand its potentialities and discover markets for its use, the enterprise required enormous capital, heroic feats of engineering, and massive labor to construct the necessary canal and railroad systems to profitably deliver it (by the 1840s) to urban and industrial destinations.

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Article Betsy Fahlman (2008) Industrial Archeology and Art: Negotiating the Past and Present. IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology (pp. 5-8). unapi

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