Mining Anthracite

Authors: Rachel Batch, Widener University, with contributions by Dan Cupper, Charles Hardy III, Thomas J. Misa, and William Pencak.

Captions: Charles Hardy III, Martha Hall, PHMC Division of History, and Marie Brown Wilson.

Digital Rights, Image Research, and Image Gallery: Marie Brown Wilson with the assistance of Martha Hall and Amy Brigham, WITF, Inc.

Video: WITF, Inc.

Audio: WHYY, Inc.

Interactive: WITF, Inc.

Content Ingestion: Matrix and Marie Brown Wilson

Related Attractions: PHMC Division of History


Lesson Plans:
Elementary School:
Carbondale: The Biography of a Coal Town, by Shannon Mocharko

Middle School:
Lattimer Massacre: What's Beneath the Surface?, by Elizabeth Lewis

High School:
Patchtowns: Big Industry, Little Towns, by Harvey Loucks


Acknowledgements:
American Canal and Transportation Center
Anthracite Heritage Museum
The Catholic University of America, Department of Archives, Manuscripts, and Museum Collections,http://libraries.cua.edu
Corbis-Bettmann
Luzerne County Historical Society
National Canal Museum, Easton, PA
Pennsylvania State Archives
Pennsylvania State University Libraries, Books and Manuscripts, Special Collections Library, the John O'Hara Collection
Syracuse University, George Arents Research Library
University of Maryland
Wyoming Historical and Geological Society