Documents & Print
Following is a general listing of print material available from a variety of primary and secondary sources.

A. Ledgers and Deeds
1. miner's daily personal log books
2. selected company store records/ledgers
3. safety rules and regulations
4. property deeds
5. UMWA by-laws (years vary)
6. "Safety the First Consideration" Frick daily bulletins (selected years)

B. Certificates
1. Frick Awards for flower/vegetable garden competition
2. Frick Household Arts certificate
3. Fire Boss
4. Assistant Mine Foreman/Mine Foreman
5. Mine Rescue and First Aid Training
6. Midwife Training Certificates

C. Newspapers and Periodicals
1. selected articles from area (Fayette/Westmoreland) newspapers - 1909-19 19
2. selected issues of Coal Age, Mining Congress Journal, Frick Bulletin, Mining and Metallurgy, UMWA Journal and US. Steel News
3. selected copies from the Connellsville Courier, including May,1914 edition: "The Connellsville Coke Region, Their Past, Present and Future"
4. The Daily News: "Connellsville Coke Region and Connellsville, 1908"
5. Daily News Standard supplement: "Coal and Coke Industrial Review, Oct. 21, 1913
6. The Connellsville Weekly Courier, Aug. 8, 1879- July11, 1929 (available on microfilm only)

D. Books
1. Pennsylvania Report of the Department of Mines (years available include 1898, 1889, 1892, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906 1914, 1917)
2. published local histories of selected area towns and communities
3. fictional and non-fictional accounts of people, places and events of the Connellsville Coal and Coke Region
4. Adventures in the Mines or Perils Underground by T.T. O'Malley,1892
5. The Relationship of Local Mining and Coke Making to the Distribution of Popular Agglomerations in the Connellsville, Pennsylvania Beehive Coke Region, by John Enman (dissertation)
6. Books written or text edited by the Directors of the Coal and Coke Heritage Center-Patch/Work Voices Project including:

Patch/Work Voices:
The History and Culture of a Coat Mining Region

The Early Coke Worker

The Early Coal Miner

Mining Literature and Lore

Coal Mines, Coke Yards and Company Towns:
Families of the Patch