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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.
- Appalachian Region--Pictorial works.
- Appalachian Region.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (239 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Images of the Consolidation Coal Company, 1910/1945
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Ohio University Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- As a function of its corporate duties, the Consolidation Coal Company had photographers take hundreds of pictures of nearly every facet of its operations. Here, geographer Geoffrey L. Buckley examines the company's photograph collection housed at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
- 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:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-203) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8214-4163-9
- OCLC:
- 228136493
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