Glen Alden & Blue Coal Archives - Earth Conservancy
By 2023, a formal agreement was reached, entrusting the entire Glen Alden and Blue Coal collection – estimated at a astounding 20,000 linear feet – to the IAL. It will become the second-largest collection their archives, surpassed only by that of Bethlehem Steel.
Collection: Records of the Glen Alden Corporation | Industrial …
In the 1920s Glen Alden, and later, its subsidiary the Blue Coal Corporation, became known for its iconic “blue coal.” The anthracite coal was dyed blue by the company as a marketing ploy. Highly successful, the blue coal became synonymous with Glen Alden and high-quality anthracite.
Preserving the past to look to the future - Industrial Archives
2023年12月26日 · Inside a red-brick building on Main Street in Ashley, lives the history of one of the largest coal mining operations in the region — Glen Alden and the Blue Coal Company. The nonprofit that now calls the building home is working with a Bethlehem-based organization to preserve that history.
Out on a Limb: Glen Alden Coal Co. records available
2022年10月21日 · Glen Alden used the trade name Blue Coal. That name came about because the company, in a stroke of marketing genius, sprayed its coal with a blue dye to make it recognizable (and...
Historic coal company records — and the stories they tell — are …
2024年3月14日 · At its peak, the Glen Alden Coal employed 34,000 people in Northeast Pennsylvania, and operated 26 production facilities. It was the biggest coal producer in Luzerne and Lackawanna counties, and has had lasting impacts on the look and feel of the area — and the generations of families that had some connection to the company.
Blue Coal Corp. | Industrial Archives & Library ArchivesSpace
Scope and Contents Records of the Glen Alden Corporation includes the records of nearly all operations of the Glen Alden Coal Corporation and its subsidiaries and predecessors. The records cover much of the anthracite coal region in Northeastern Pennsylvania, including the areas of Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, Hazelton, the Northern field, and the ...
Preserving the past to look to the future - WVIA Public Media
2023年12月26日 · Inside a red-brick building on Main Street in Ashley, lives the history of one of the largest coal mining operations in the region — Glen Alden and the Blue Coal Company. The nonprofit that now calls the building home is working with a Bethlehem-based organization to preserve that history.
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2024年3月13日 · Totaling over 20,000 linear feet, the records housed at Earth Conservancy go back over a century and represent virtually an intact history of Glen Alden, Blue Coal, and their predecessors and subsidiaries. Blue Coal was forced into bankruptcy in 1976, leaving the company’s records to languish in a lengthy bankruptcy proceeding.
Series: Operations | Industrial Archives & Library ArchivesSpace
The impact of Glen Alden in the anthracite coal industry cannot be overstated, and the documents cover a wide variety of different areas, including real estate (maps/surveys, deeds, and correspondence), engineering (blueprints, equipment drawings, transit books, and more), financials (employee records, sales, bill s of lading, wages, and ...
Blue Paint on Anthracite Coal? Paper Discs in Anthracite Coal?
2008年1月19日 · Glen Alden breakers tinted their coal blue, Reading Anthracite speckled their coal red. Lots of other companies used little paper disks or rectangles mixed in with the coal. These were called "scatter tags". One scatter tag that comes to mind was used at the Glen Burn Colliery in Shamokin.