Mittrick Robert (2 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Plastic comb bound, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 72 pp + approximately 18 pp of black and white photographs. Paperback, fine; tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked. Articles: St Gabriel's Parish in Hazleton, Wyoming Valley at the Last Turn of the Century; Watson Bunnell: Anthracite Photographer ; The Growth and Decline of the Women's Garment Industry and the ILGWU in Pennsylvania's Northern Anthracite Region 1930 to the Present. History; Americana; coal mining; sociology; economics; religion; immigration studies; photography.…

Spiral Bound. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. Proceedings of the Annual Conference on the History of Northeastern Pennsylvania: The Last 100 Years for 1990, 1992, 1995-98, six (6) volumes total, uniformly bound in plastic comb bindings, softbound. Slight handling wear, institutional library stamp to contents page of each volume, otherwise virtually as issued. Topics include the Lattimer massacre, anthracite coal, the Wilkes-Barre historic district, Dr. Jonas Sliupas, Ashley Planes, ethnic heritage of the Wyoming Valley, Polish National Catholic Church, Agnes hurricane and flood (1972), Slovak miners in NE PA coal fields, anti-labor and anti-radical violence during the Great Depression, the Ashland Boys Association, the impact of WW2 on the Wyoming Valley homefront, the Bear Creek Ice Co., politics in Lackawanna County, vaudeville in northeastern PA, the Knox Mine disaster of 1959, bootleg mining, the Stegmaier Brewing Co., the Jewish community in Luzerne County, attempts to reindustrialize and diversify the economy after mining, carrying anthracite from the Wyoming Valley to tidewater, West Side Carbondale mine fire, African-American laborers in Luzerne and Lackawanna counties, Concrete City (model company housing), etc. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.…