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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:
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