Engine House, Pottsville, Pennsylvania

Summary

Interior of engine house, showing the deep shaft hoisting engine, cable and drum. The most complete hoisting apparatus in the anthracite coal districts. Deep shaft colliery, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.

Subject

• Dewey, Fred. P (Frederic Perkins) 1855-1921
• Brown, James Templeman
• United States National Museum
• a United States National Museum Department of Metallurgy and Economic Geology
• World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition (1884-1885 : New Orleans, La.)

Notes

• Description from "Bulletin of the United States National Museum, No. 42: A Preliminary Descriptive Catalogue of the Systematic Collections in Economic Geology and Metallurgy in the United States National Museum," page 226.
• Collected for curator of metallurgy and economic geology Frederic P. Dewey by assistant James Templeman Brown as part of Dewey's "Plan to illustrate the mineral resources of the United States, and their utilization, at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial of 1884-85, at New Orleans."

Cite as

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-006, Box 005, Image No. MAH-2831

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

1884

Restrictions & Rights

• No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
• No Known Copyright

Topic

• Mining
• Coal-mining machinery
• Mineral industries
• Coal
• Coal mines and mining
• Mines and mineral resources

Place

• Pottsville (Pa.)
• Pennsylvania
• Schuylkill County (Pa.)

Form/Genre

Glass negatives

Local number

SIA Acc. 11-006 [MAH-2831]

Physical description

8 x 10;

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