Extracting Appalachia : images of the Consolidation Coal Company, 1910/1945 / Geoffrey L. Buckley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buckley, Geoffrey L., 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consolidation Coal Company--History.

Consolidation Coal Company.

Consolidation Coal Company--Pictorial works.

Coal mines and mining--Appalachian Region--History.

Coal mines and mining.

Coal mines and mining--Appalachian Region--Pictorial works.

History.

Appalachian Region--Pictorial works.

Appalachian Region.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 215 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Images of the Consolidation Coal Company, 1910/1945

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2004]

Summary:

The Consolidation Coal Company, one of the largest coal-mining operations in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century, had photographers take hundreds of pictures of nearly every facet of its operations. Whether for publicity images, safety procedure illustrations, or archival information, these photographs create a documentary record that goes far beyond the purposes the company intended. Geoffrey L. Buckley examines the company's photograph collection housed at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. Included in the collection are images of mine openings, mining equipment, and mine accidents, as well as scenes of the company towns, including schools, churches, recreational facilities, holiday celebrations, and company stores.

Contents:

Reading historical photographs

A time for consolidation, 1860-1945

Images of the company town

Images of work and equipment

Images of environmental transformation

Extracting Appalachia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-203) and index.

ISBN:

0821415557

0821415565

OCLC:

53253742