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Ironmaking and Coal Mining in Pennsylvania
James Moore Swank
139 year old book entitled: Introduction to a History of Ironmaking and Coal Mining in Pennsylvania, written by James Moore Swank and privately published by the author in 1878. Hardcover book, green cloth with gilt lettering, issued without dust jacket, 125 pages. Includes chapters on:
•Beginning of the iron industry in the United States
•Beginning of the iron industry in Pennsylvania
•Second stage in the development of the iron industry in Pennsylvania
•Development of the Cornwall Ore Hills
•History of Valley Forge
•Continued development of the iron industry of eastern Pennsylvania
•First ironworks in the Juniata Valley
•Early ironworks in other central and eastern counties
•First ironworks west of the Alleghenies
•Description of the primitive method of manufacturing wrought iron
•The first rolling mills west of the Alleghenies
•Was Plumsock the first mill to roll bars and puddle iron
•The Whitwell hot blast
•First iron rails made in the United States
•Iron shipbuilding in the United States
•Exports of Pennsylvania iron before the Revolution
•Development of the Great Coal Seam at Pittsburgh
•The western Pennsylvania coal trade
•Description of the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania
Condition: Binding showing wear along extremities and bumped corners. Previous owners name (dated 2 May 1890) on front pastedown. Notes in pencil on a blank page at rear of book. No library markings. Good condition.
Dimensions: roughly 6.1 x 9.3 inches.
