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MANUSCRIPTS
Bologna, John. Account Book with G.B. Markle and Co., 1893. Wyoming Geological and Historical Society, Wilkes-Barre.
Cist, J.O. Contract with Aaron Dean, January 18, 1815. Mss. Coal File 1, Wyoming Geological and Historical Society, Wilkes-Barre.
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GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Adjutant General. Report of the Adjutant General of Pennsylvania, 1877.
. Coal Waste Commission. Report of the Commission Appointed to Investigate the Waste of Coal Mining With the View to Utilizing of the Waste. Philadelphia: Allen, Lane and Scott, 1893.
. Laws of Pennsylvania.
. Legislature. Report of the Legislature of Pennsylvania Containing a Description of the Swarta Mining District. Harrisburg: Boas and Caplan, 1839.
. Legislature. Joint Committee to Investigate the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. Testimony Before the Committee to Investigate The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. Legislative Documents, 1876; Vol. III, 495–1137.
. Legislature. Riot Committee. Riot Committee Investigation. Pennsylvania Legislative Documents, 1878. Vol. 5, Document No. 29.
. Mine Inspectors. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines, 1871–1897.
. Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. A Special Report to the Legislature Upon the Causes, Kinds, and Amount of Waste in Mining Anthracite With a Chapter on the Methods of Mining by John Price Wetherhill. By Franklin Platt. Harrisburg: Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey, 1881.
. Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. Report on the Mining Methods and Appliances Used in the Anthracite Fields. By H.M. Chance. Harrisburg: Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey, 1883.
. Secretary of Internal Affairs. Annual Reports, Part III, Industrial Statistics, 1872–1897.
. Senate, Select Committee upon the Subject of the Coal Trade. “Report of the Committee of the Senate Upon the Subject of the Coal Trade.” Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1833-34; vol. 2, 449–572.
. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary General. Report of the Committee on the Judiciary General, of the Senate of Pennsylvania, in Relation to the Anthracite Coal Difficulties with Accompanying Testimony. Legislative Documents, 1871, 1515–1737.
. Senate, Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Great Britain. Foreign Office. Commercial Reports. Reports Respecting the Late Industrial Conflicts in the United States. Sessional Papers, 1877, Vol. LXXXIV.
New York. Senate. Special Committee on the Coal Combination. Report of the Senate Special Committee on the Coal Combination to Inquire Whether a Combination of Corporations or Individuals Has Been Formed With A View of Advancing or Controlling the Price of Coal. Senate Documents, Vol. IV, Doc. 21, 116th Session, 1893.
United States. Anthracite Coal Strike Commission. Report to the President on the Anthracite Coal Strike of May-October, 1902. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903.
. Bureau of Statistics. Labor in Europe and America. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875.
. Commissioner of Labor. Eleventh Special Report of the Commissioner of Labor; Regulation and Restriction of Output. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904.
. Commissioner of Labor. Third Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor; 1887: Strikes and Lockouts. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1888.
. Department of Interior. United States Geological Survey. Mineral Industries of the United States, 1883–1884. House Misc. Document 36, 49th Congress, 1st Session, 1885.
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. Department of Interior. United States Geological Survey. Mineral Industries of the United States, 1891. House Misc. Document, 83, 52nd Congress, 2nd Session, 1892.
. Department of State. Consular Service. United States Consular Reports: Labor in Europe. House Executive Document 54, 48th Congress, 2nd Session, 1885.
. Industrial Commission. Report of the Industrial Commission, Vol. XII, The Relations and Conditions of Capital and Labor Employed in the Mining Industry. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1901.
. Immigration Commission. Report of the Immigration Commission. Senate Document 633, 44 vols., 61st Congress, 2nd Session, 1911.
. House of Representatives. Select Committee on Existing Labor Troubles in Pennsylvania. Labor Troubles in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1887–1888. Report 4147, 50th Congress, 2nd Session, 1889.
. House of Representatives. Select Committee to Inquire into the Alleged Violation of the Laws Prohibiting the Importation of Contract Laborers, Paupers, Convicts, and other Classes. Testimony Taken By the Select Committee of the House of Representatives to Inquire into the Alleged Violation of the Laws Prohibiting the Importation of Contract Laborers, Paupers, Convicts, and Other Classes. House Misc. Document 572, 50th Congress, 1st Session, 1888.
. House of Representatives. Select Committee Relative to the Causes of the General Depression in Labor and Business. Investigation by a Select Committee Relative to the Causes of the General Depression in Labor and Business, and as to Chinese Immigration. House Misc. Document 5, 46th Congress, 2nd Session, 1879.
. House of Representatives. Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Report and Testimony in Regards to the Alleged Combination of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company and Other Railroad and Canal Companies and Producers of Coal. Report 2278, 52nd Congress, 2nd Session, 1892.
Commons, John R. et al. Documentary History of American Industrial Society. 10 vols.; Cleveland, Ohio: The A.H. Clark Co., 1910.
Conway, Alan. The Welsh in America: Letters from the Immigrants. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1961.
NEWSPAPERS
The Daily News (Hazleton).
Daily Republican (Pottsville).
The Daily Standard (Hazleton).
Evening Bulletin (Hazleton).
Evening Chronicle (Pottsville).
Hazard’s Register of Pennsylvania.
Hazleton Weekly Sentinel.
Miners’ Journal (Pottsville).
Mining Herald and Colliery Engineer (Shenandoah).
The Mountain Beacon (Hazleton).
New York Daily Tribune.
The Plain Speaker (Hazleton).
Public Ledger (Philadelphia).
Record of the Times (Wilkes-Barre).
Scranton Republican.
Seward’s Coal Trade, 1877-78.
Shamokin Herald.
Shamokin News-Dispatch.
Shenandoah Herald.
The Tamaqua Courier.
The Tribune (Chicago).
Wilkes-Barre Telephone.
CONTEMPORARY BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Albright, Charles and F.W. Hughes. The Great Molly Maguire Trials in Carbon and Schuylkill Counties, Pennsylvania. Brief Reference to Such Trials and Arguments of General Charles Albright and Hon. F. W. Hughes, In the Case of the Commonwealth vrs. James Carroll, James Roarity, Hugh McGehan, and James Boyle, Indicted for the Murder of Benjamin F. Yost, Chief of Police of and at Tamaqua, July 6, 1876, In the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Schuylkill County. Stenographically reported by R.A. West. Pottsville: Chronicle Book and Job Rooms, 1876.
Alden, H.M. “Coal Fields of Pennsylvania.” Harper’s, XXVIII (September 1863), 455–467.
Allison, Robert. “Early History of Coal Mining and Mining Machinery in Schuylkill County.” Publications of the Schuylkill County Historical Society, IV (1912), 134–155.
Ashburner, Charles A. Brief Description of the Anthracite Coal Fields of Pennsylvania. Author’s Edition, 1884.
Blanchard, D.E. A Concise History of the Anthracite Coal Industry of Pennsylvania. Wilkes-Barre: W.H. Seacord, 1884.
Bowen, Eli. “Coal and the Coal Fields of Pennsylvania.” Harper’s, XV (August 1857), 451–469.
. The Coal Regions of Pennsylvania, Being a General, Geological, Historical and Statistical Review of the Anthracite Coal Districts. Pottsville: E.N. Carvalho, 1848.
. The Pictorial Sketch-Book of Pennsylvania or Its Scenery, Internal Improvements, Resources, and Agriculture, Popularly Described. Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 1852.
Brooks, J.G. “Impressions of the Anthracite Coal Troubles.” Yale Review, VI (November 1897), 306–311.
Chambers, George. Historical Sketch of Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Pottsville: Standard Publishing Company, 1877.
Chase, H.W. An Account of the Unparalleled Disaster at the Avondale Colliery, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, September 6th 1869 By Which One Hundred and Ten Lives Were Lost. Scranton: J.B. Furman, Publisher, 1869.
Cist, Jacob. “An Account of the Mines in the Region About Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.” Proceedings of the Wyoming Geological and Historical Society, X (1909), 98–114.
Coxe, Eckley B. “History of Mining Legislation in Pennsylvania.” Journal of Social Science (1871–1874), 12–32.
“Coal Policy in Pennsylvania.” Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine, XII (1845), 242.
Comparative Views of Most Anthracite Collieries in Pennsylvania. Printed by W.F. Geddes, 1835.
Culin, Steward. A Trooper’s Narrative of Service in the Anthracite Strike of 1902. Philadelphia: G.W. Jacobs & Co., 1903.
Cushing, L. “The Coal Trade in Pennsylvania.” North American Review, XVII (January 1836), 241–256.
Dacus, J.A. Annals of the Great Strikes in the United States. Chicago: L.T. Palmer & Co., 1877.
Daddow, Samuel H. Report of the Landed Estate and Mines and Mineral Resources of the Locust Gap Improvement Company. To Which is Appended the Charter and By Laws of the Company. Philadelphia: Stein and Jones, Printers, 1866.
Daddow, Samuel H. and Benjamin Bannan. Coal, Iron and Oil; Or the Practical American Miner. Pottsville: Benjamin Bannan, 1866.
Danville and Pottsville Railroad Company. Laws and By-Laws of the Danville and Pottsville Railroad Company. Philadelphia: K.R. Bailey, 1851.
Davis, John et al. Report of a Committee of Investigation Into the Affairs of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company. Boston: Eastburn’s Press, 1846.
Derby, George. An Inquiry into the Influence of Anthracite Fires Upon Health; With Remarks Upon Artificial Moisture, and the Best Modes of Warming Houses. 2nd ed., enlarged. Boston: A. Williams and Co., 1868.
Dewees, F.P. The Molly Maguires: The Origin, Growth, and Character of the Organization. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Company, 1877.
“End of the Anthracite Strike.” Engineering and Mining Journal, XIX (June 1875), 461.
Evans, Christopher. History of the United Mine Workers of America from the Year 1860 to 1890. Indianapolis: United Mine Workers of America, 1914.
“The First Coal Region of Pennsylvania.” Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine, XII (1845), 426–434.
French, Samuel C. Reminiscences of Plymouth, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. New York: Locus Press, 1914.
George, Henry. “Labor in Pennsylvania.” North American Review, CXLII (1886), 165–182, 268–277, 360–370, CXLIV (1887), 86–95.
Gibbons, P.E. “The Miners of Scranton Pennsylvania.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, LV (November 1877), 916–927.
Giering, Eugen. “Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.” Nation, XVI (1902), 223–225.
Gilberton Coal Company. Description of the Mines with the Report of P.W. Sheafer of Pennsylvania, Engineer of Mines. Boston: Wright and Potter, 1864.
Godkin, E.L. “‘Cornering’ The Public.” Nation, XII (March 2, 1871), 136–137.
. “Labor and Politics.” Nation, XIV (June 13, 1872), 386–387.
. “Some Questions for the Labor Commission.” Nation, XIV (January 4, 1872), 5–7.
Gowen, Franklin B. Argument of Franklin B. Gowen, Esq., of Counsel For the Commonwealth In The Case of the Commonwealth vs. Thomas Munley, Indicted In the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Schuylkill County Pennsylvania, For the Murder of Thomas Sanger, A Mining Boss, At Raven Run, On September 1, 1875. Stenographically Reported by R.A. West. Pottsville: Chronicle Book and Job Rooms, 1876.
Greene, Homer. Coal and the Coal Mines. New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1889.
Hodgkin, J.B. “Latest Phase of the Coal Troubles.” Nation, XII (April 13, 1871), 254–256.
. “True History of the Coal Strike.” Nation, XII (March 16, 1871), 153–154.
Hudson, James F. “The Anthracite Coal Pool.” North American Review, CXLIX (January 1887), 43–54.
Hughes, F.W. Commonwealth versus Patrick Hester, Patrick Tully, and Peter McHugh Tried and Convicted of the Murder of Alexander W. Rea. Argument of Honorable F.W. Hughes, For Commonwealth, at Bloomsburg, Pa., February 23 & 24, 1877. Stenographically reported by R.A. West. Philadelphia: G.V. Town and Son, 1877.
James, Thomas C. “A Brief Account of the Discovery of Anthracite Coal on the Lehigh.” Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, I (1826), 321–331.
Johnson, Walter R. Notes on the Use of Anthracite in the Manufacture of Iron With Some Remarks on Its Evaporating Power. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1841.
Jones, John G. “Impression of the Anthracite Coal Troubles.” Yale Review, VI (November 1897), 306–311.
Kropff, F.C. Report Upon the Coal Lands and Coal Work In Beaver Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania. Boston: J.E. Farwell & Co, 1865.
Kulp, George B. Coal, Its Antiquity, Its Discovery and Early Development in the Wyoming Valley. Wilkes-Barre: n.p. 1890.
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. Annual Reports, 1863–1897.
Lesley, J.P. Manual of Coal and Its Topography. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co, 1856.
Logan, Samuel C. A City’s Danger and Defense, Or Issues and Results of the Strikes of 1877. Scranton: The Author, 1887.
Martin, Edward W. The History of the Great Riots Being a Full and Authentic Account of the Strikes and Riots on the Various Railroads of the United States and in the Mining Regions and a Full History of the Molly Maguires. Philadelphia: The National Publishing Co, 1877.
Mathews, Alfred and Austin N. Hungerford. History of the Counties of Lehigh and Carbon, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Everts and Richards, 1884.
McClure, Alexander K. Old Time Notes of Pennsylvania. 2 vols. Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1905.
McFarlane, James. The Coal Regions of America. New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1873.
McNeil, George E., ed. The Labor Problem Today. New York: The M.W. Hazen Co., 1887.
Miesse, Charles. Points on Coal and the Coal Business. Myerstown, Pa.: Feese and Uhrich, 1887.
Nichols, Francis H. “Children of the Coal Shadow.” McClure’s, XX (1902/03), 435–444.
North American. Pennsylvania Coal and Its Carriers. Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley, 1852.
Patterson, Joseph F. “After the W.B.A.” Publications of the Historical Society of Schuylkill County, IV (1913/14), 168–184.
. “Old W.B.A. Days.” Publications of the Historical Society of Schuylkill County, II (1909).
. “Reminiscences of John Maguire After Fifty Years of Mining.” Publications of the Historical Society of Schuylkill County, IV (1913/14), 305–326.
“Pennsylvania in Its Industrial Aspect.” Republic, II (1874), 261–268.
Pinkerton, Allan. The Molly Maguires and the Detectives. New York: G.W. Dillingham Co., Publishers, 1877.
Plumb, Henry B. History of Hanover Township Including Sugar Notch, Ashley, and Nanticoke Boroughs and also a History of Wyoming Valley in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Wilkes-Barre: Robert Baur, 1885.
Rhodes, James Ford. “The Molly Maguires in the Anthracite Region.” American Historical Review, XV (April 1910).
Rhone, Rossamond D. “Anthracite Coal Mines and Mining.” Review of Reviews, XVI (1902), 110–122.
Road, Henry. “Mine Laborers in Pennsylvania.” Forum, XIV (September 1892), 110–122.
Roberts, Peter. Anthracite Coal Communities. New York: Macmillan, 1904.
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Rogers, Henry D. “Coal and Coal Mining” Harper’s, XXIX (July 1868), 163–168.
Roy, Andrew. The Coal Mines. Cleveland: Robinson, Savage & Co., 1876.
. A History of the Coal Miners of the United States, From the Development of the Mines to the Close of the Anthracite Strike of 1902. 3rd ed. Columbus, Ohio: J.L. Trauger Printing Company, 1903.
Spahr, Charles R. America’s Working People. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1900.
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Stevenson, George E. Reflections of An Anthracite Engineer. New York: The Author, 1931.
Taylor, George. Effect of Incorporated Coal Companies Upon the Anthracite Coal Trade of Pennsylvania. Pottsville: Benjamin Bannan, 1833.
Taylor, Richard. 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 Paxtany in the County of Dauphin and East Hanover Townships in the County of Lebanon. With Appendixes. Philadelphia: E.G. Dorsey, Printer, 1840.
Throop, Benjamin H. A Half-Century in Scranton. Scranton: The Author, 1895.
The Twin Shaft Relief Association. The Twin Shaft Disaster, of June 28th, 1896 and Work of Relief for the Suffers With Charter, By-Laws and Plan of Distribution of the Fund to the Beneficiaries. Pittston: The Twin Shaft Relief Association, 1897.
Virtue, G.O. “The Anthracite Combinations.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, X (April 1896), 296–323.
. “The Anthracite Mine Laborers.” U.S. Department of Labor. Bulletin 13 (1897), 728–774.
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Warne, Frank J. “The Effect of Unionism Upon the Mine Worker.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, XXI (January 1903), 20–35.
. The Slav Invasion and the Mine Workers; A Study in Immigration. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Company, 1904.
Warringer, J. My Years in Anthracite. Lansford, Pa.: The Author, 1951.
White, Josiah. Josiah White’s History Given By Himself. Philadelphia: G.H. Buchanan Company, 1909.
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Allen, James B. The Company Town in the American West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966.
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Billinger, Robert D. Pennsylvania’s Coal Industry, 1762–1954. Gettysburg: Pennsylvania Historical Association, 1954.
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Blanchard, Paul. The Irish and Catholic Power: An American Interpretation. Boston: The Beacon Press, 1953.
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Brennan, James M. From Mine Pit to Pulpit. Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1954.
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