Records, 1884-1948.

Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.

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Industrialist and inventor of the compressed air brake George Westinghouse incorporated the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company in 1891. With its giant factory located in East Pittsburgh, Pa., the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company soon became the Edison General Electric Company's main rival in the contest to provide electricity to the United States. While Edison General Electric pioneered the generation and distribution of direct current (DC) electricity, Westinghou...

Plymouth Locomotive Company.

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Midvalley Coal Company.

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Lehigh Portland Cement Company

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Cambria Steel Company.

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H.C. Frick Coke Company.

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Pennsylvania Water and Power Company.

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Ironton Railroad Company.

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Delaware and Hudson Company

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The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company was incorporated in 1823. The name was changed in 1899 to Delaware and Hudson Company. In 1930 a new corporation was formed, the Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corporation, which took over the railroad properties of the Delaware and Hudson Company. In 1968 most of the assets of the Railroad Corporation were acquired by a new corporation, the Delaware and Hudson Railway Company. From the description of Report of L. F. Loree, president to the executi...

Solvay Process Company

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Ateliers Metallurgiques (Belgium).

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Lamar Colliery Company

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Thomas Iron Company

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Located in the Lehigh Valley, Pa.; sold to Drexel and Co. in July 1922 after an existence of 66 years. From the description of Records of the Thomas Iron Company, 1860-1880. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 31019652 Founded 1854; operated furnaces in Pennsylvania, mines in New Jersey, and other property; sold in 1922. From the description of Records, 1854-1939. (Lehigh University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 28416280 ...

Grant, Smith & Company.

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Mussens, Ltd.

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Amtorg Trading Corporation

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Lykens Valley Coal Company

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Mathieson Alkali Works (Saltville, Va.)

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Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company

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The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. R. Co. was headquartered at 49 Wall St., New York, N.Y. It had many local stations, including one in New Milford, Pa. D. W. Hagen was an agent at the New Milford Station in the 1870s. From the description of Receipt book, 1853-1862, 1875-1888. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 261228863 The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad was one of the largest and most prosperous anthracite mining and transporting co...

Maryd Coal Company.

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Link-Belt Company

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The Link-Belt Machinery Company was incorporated in Illinois on November 13, 1880. It was renamed the Link-Belt Company on May 28, 1906, upon merging two subsidiaries, the Ewart Manufacturing Company of Indianapolis and the Link-Belt Engineering Company of Philadelphia. The Link-Belt Company was merged into FMC Corporation on June 30, 1967. The firm was founded by William Dana Ewart (1851-1908), who had invented the detachable link-belt in 1874. The flexible metal belt p...

Ingersoll-Rand Company

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Glen Alden Coal Company

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Reading Iron Company.

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Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Company

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Susquehanna Collieries Company.

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Erie City Iron Works.

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Juragua Iron Company

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Imperial Taiwan Railways.

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Charles Warner Company.

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Dodson Coal Company.

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American Bridge Company

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United States Gypsum Co.

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Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company

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Bethlehem Steel Corporation

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The Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company, formed in Pennsylvania during the 1840's moved to a West Seneca, N.Y. site in 1899. Steelmaking began in 1903 and by 1909 the City of Lackawanna had been established around the steel plant. Purchased by Bethlehem Steel in 1922, the facility expanded until employment reached over 20,000 in the mid - 1950's. Decline in the 1970's led to the closing of the Lackawanna Plant in 1983. From the description of Bethlehem Steel Corporation photographs, 194...

Pennsylvania Railroad

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the northeast's and midwest's dominance of manufacturing, caused by the evolution of the interstate highway system and the advancements in air transportation. Originally created by Philadelphia merchants in 1846, it sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Mountains to c...

Empire Steel and Iron Company

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Pennsylvania Coal Company

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Kingston Coal Company.

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Dickson Manufacturing Company.

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Baldwin Locomotive Works

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Matthias Baldwin (b. 1795), a former jeweler and tool manufacturer, was commissioned in 1831 by Franklin Peale to fashion a miniature locomotive engine to be displayed at his Philadelphia Museum. Soon the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad asked Baldwin to construct "Old Ironsides," his first full-size engine, in 1832. Subsequently, M.W. Baldwin, incorporated in 1831, became an establishment for the manufacture of locomotive engines at 400 North Broad Street in Philadelphia. The po...

American Trona Corporation.

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Mineral Railroad and Mining Company.

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Tide Water Oil Company

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J.S. Wentz & Company.

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New Jersey Zinc Company

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Sussex Zinc and Copper Mining and Manufacturing Company formed by Col. Samuel Fowler in Franklin, N.J., in 1848; included other mines in Sussex County, N.J.; in 1852 name changed to New Jersey Zinc Company; in 1880 to New Jersey Zinc and Iron Company and in 1897 renamed New Jersey Zinc Company; in 1965 became a subsidiary of Gulf & Western Industries; principal owner and operator of zinc ore deposits located in Franklin and Ogdensburg, N.J., with plants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania; headqu...

Standard Oil Company (New Jersey).

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Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company

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The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, a subsidiary of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail Road, was founded in 1871 to allow its parent corporation to control the transportation of anthracite coal mined in eastern Pennsylvania. The coal company operated mines and coal processing plants, and the finished product was shipped via the railroad's lines. The Philadelphia and Reading Iron and Coal Company became a separate corporation in 1923 after the U.S. government initiated an anti-trus...

Roanoke Railroad and Lumber Company.

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Hillside Coal and Iron Company.

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Vulcan Iron Works.

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The Vulcan Iron Works was founded by Richard Jones in 1849 at South Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. The firm specialized in the manufacture of shaft hoists and other machinery to serve the Wyoming Valley's burgeoning anthracite coal industry. It was incorporated on April 11, 1867. In 1888, Vulcan acquired the Wyoming Valley Manufacturing Company, incorporated on April 5, 1867, a builder of mine and industrial locomotives. Vulcan's locomotives were designed for mine, logging,...

Lukens Iron and Steel Company

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International Nickel Company of Canada, Limited.

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H.M. Chance Company.

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United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

St. Clair Coal Company.

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Richmond and Rappahannock River Railroad Company.

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Pennsylvania Steel Company

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International Paper Company

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The International Paper Company was formed in 1898 by Hugh Chisholm as a result of the merger of 17 pulp and paper mills in the northeastern United States. It currently owns over 8 million acres of land in the U.S. and its primary products are paper and paper distribution, packaging and forest products. From the description of Records, 1873-1902. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 73518022 ...

Edison Portland Cement Company

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Consolidation Coal Company

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Consolidation Coal Company (Maryland): The Consolidation Coal Company was incorporated in Maryland on March 8, 1860, for the purpose of effecting a merger of a number of coal operators mining the Georges Creek basin in Allegany County, Maryland. Because of the Civil War, during which Confederate armies frequently blocked the region's only outlet to market, the company was not actually organized until April 19, 1864. Starting life as the dominant operator in this small but significan...

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company

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The family firm of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company was established in 1802 and during the 19th century it became one of the United States' most important manufacturers of black powder. In 1902 three younger du Pont cousins: T. Coleman, Alfred I., and Pierre S. took over the company and within three years succeeded in bringing 75% of the American explosives industry (which at that time included black powder, dynamite, and smokeless powder) under their control. During the first decade of the...

Susquehanna Coal Company.

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Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Company

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Incorporated in Virginia, Jan. 10, 1899; merged into Bates Manufacturing Co., Oct. 31, 1969; an integrated iron producer operating iron works in Va., Ky., and Tenn.; coal and iron mines in Va., Tenn., N.C., Ga., and Ky.). From the description of Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Company records, 1790-1966 (bulk 1835-1895). (East Tennessee State University). WorldCat record id: 36499540 Incorporated in Virginia, Jan. 10, 1899; merged into Bates Manufacturing Co., Oct. 31, 1969; an...

Geological survey (U.S.)

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E.W. Glafcke was in charge of a crew during the United States Geological Survey's spirit leveling activities in Wyoming and Utah from 1896 to 1912. From the guide to the United States Geologic Survey photograph collection, 1892-1912, 1898-1902, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) First organized as a branch in 1889, the Topographic Division was established in 1947. From the description of Records of the Topographic Division. (Unknown). World...

A. E. Dick Contracting Company, Inc.

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Central Pennsylvania Quarrying, Stripping and Construction Company.

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Carnegie Steel Company.

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The Carnegie Steel Company was the final conglomeration of several steelworks, bridge companies and coke works under Andrew Carnegie. Beginning with the firm of Carnegie, Kloman and Company, Andrew Carnegie created several more steelworks and other companies eventually becoming the largest producer of steel in the world, while also becoming the richest man in the world. In 1901, Carnegie sold his interests in his company to financier J.P. Morgan, leading to the development of the United States S...

Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company

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The surge of investment that filled the Anthracite region of northeastern Pennsylvania in the mid-1700s did not reach the Lehigh Valley until 1791 when coal was found near Summit Hill, west of Mauch Chunk, leading to the formation of the Lehigh Coal Mines Company. Coal was floated downriver on wooden rafts known as arks, which were dismantled and sold as lumber upon arrival. Flooding, shallow water and swift currents created financial problems for the company until Josiah White, familiar with ca...

Glen White Coal and Lumber Company.

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American Car and Foundry Company

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The Jackson and Sharp Company, a manufacturer of railroad passenger cars, was incorporated in Delaware on February 24, 1869, as the successor to the partnership of Jackson & Sharp. Job H. Jackson (1833-1901), a tinsmith and mechanic, and Jacob F. Sharp (ca. 1815-1888), an experienced car builder, opened a small car-building shop in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1863. Wilmington was a major center for the manufacture of railroad passenger cars prior to the development of P...

Lehigh Valley Coal Company

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Westmoreland Coal Company

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Southern Appalachian coal producer, incorporated 1902, active in Lee and Wise counties, Va. Merged into the Westmoreland Coal Company in 1964. From the description of Westmoreland Coal Company collection of the Stonega Coke and Coal Company papers, 1915-1957. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53966093 The Westmoreland Coal Company (Del.) was formed on April 30, 1964, by the merger of the Westmoreland Coal Company (Pa.) and the Stonega Coke & Coal...

Universal Portland Cement Company.

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Colonial Collieries Company.

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Dravo Corporation

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Dravo Corporation was founded by Francis R. Dravo in 1890. Originally, Dravo produced steam engines and then branched out to produce other steel products such as ships, mine shafts and caissons. Adverse economic conditions in the 1970's and 1980's forced Dravo to sell many of their facilities. From the description of Dravo Corporation records 1900-1986 (bulk 1943-1986). (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 50611831 ...

Florida Phosphate Mining Corporation.

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G. B. Markle and Company.

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