Mineral industries.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
John C. Phillips business records
Collection Identifier: Mss:766 1859-1885 P561Overview:
Business records kept by Boston, Mass. shipping merchant John C. Phillips while he was in the employ of R.C. Mackay & Son and later head of John C. Phillips & Company. Phillips engaged in trade with India, China, South America and the West Indies.
Loring family business records
Collection Identifier: Mss:766 1834-1925 L873Overview:
Letter books, accounts of investments, and business records of Elisha T. Loring, his estate, and records of family business interests in Loring Brothers & Company.
Lycoming Coal Company records
Collection Identifier: Mss:351 1832-1848 L981Scope and Contents:
The material in this collection, which runs from the company's origin to its dissolution, documents, among other things, an early attempt to win the American race to manufacture high quality iron along English lines. That is, the company's goal was to use coke (rather than charcoal) and the hot blast method to fire furnaces to produce large quantities of high-grade iron. Furthermore, the enterprise was an attempt to integrate all stages of production from coal mining to the manufacture of...