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Images of three types of certification recordings for mine foremen and assistant foremen: certificate books, certificate receipt books, and registers. The certificate books contain copies of more the certificates issued to eligible applicants, spanning the years 1886-1923 for foremen and 1891-1940 for assistant foremen. Information provided includes the certificate number and date issued; the name, residence, age, and place of birth of the applicant; length and nature of the applicant's service; mine district; and the report's number and date. The certificate receipt books, which cover the years from 1938-1963, contain only the receipt portion, not the actual certificate, and show the applicant's name, age, place of birth and length of service; the examining board's name; certificate number and date issued; and the applicant's test score. Finally, the registers list the name, residence, place of birth, and age of the applicant; the report's number and date; the certificate number and date issued; and length and nature of the applicant's service. The registers for foremen cover the period 1923-1955, and for assistant foremen from 1923-1968. Disclaimer: Not all records in this collection are digitized. Visit the PA State Archives to see the rest of the collection. less

This group of certificate stubs and cards is grouped into four separate batches as follows: Miners' Certificate Cards and Stubs, which date from 1937 and 1938; more Machine Runner and Cutting, Loading, and Drilling Machine Operators Certificate Stubs, dating from 1938 through the late 1950s, possibly the early 1960s; Miners' Certificate Stubs which date from the late 1930s; and Miners' Certificate Stubs dating from 1939 through roughly 1965. The bulk of the stubs and cards date from 1937 through 1955, and all provide excellent genealogical data on rank-and-file miners and other mine workers who labored in the bituminous fields of western Pennsylvania. Specific information found in each batch of material includes the following: Miner's Certificate Cards and Stubs, 1937, 1938 (81 boxes): name of miner, age of miner (not found on all cards), address of miner, certification number, application number, date of issue, employer, and mine number. Index cards constitute the bulk of this series, however, for some reason the run of index cards becomes a run of certificate stubs after Box 68, beginning with the stub for John Sagan. These stubs are stylistically different from the ones described below, but convey the same type of information; Machine Runner and Cutting, Loading, and Drilling Machine Operators Certificate Stubs, 1930s-1960s (12 boxes): stub number, name of miner, address of miner, place of birth, date of birth, mine where employed at the time of exam, company name, mine experience (some stubs provide a specific number of years of machine experience), place of examination, date of examination, date of certificate issuance, and bituminous inspection district number. Miner's Certificate Stubs, late 1930s (6 boxes): stub number, name of miner, address of miner, place of birth, date of birth, mine where employed at the time of exam, company name, mine experience, place of examination, date of examination, and date of certificate issuance; Miner's Certificate Stubs, 1939-1965 (25 boxes): stub number, name of miner, address of miner, place of birth, date of birth, mine where employed at the time of exam, company name, mine experience (in years), place of examination, date of examination, date of certificate issuance, and bituminous inspection district number. Also present are twenty-six microfilm rolls. All refer to the bituminous coal region of western Pennsylvania, with the first sixteen rolls apparently duplicating the Miners' Certificate Cards (1937, 1938) and the last ten containing original data, specifically: four rolls of Mine Foreman certification stubs and certificates, dating from roughly 1939-1966 (bulk 1940s), organized numerically by mining district then alphabetically by surname; four rolls of Mine Foreman certification stubs and certificates, dating from roughly 1966-1987 (bulk 1970s), organized numerically by mining district then alphabetically by surname; and two rolls of Shot Firer Certifications, 1938-1983, arranged alphabetically by surname. The cards and stubs on these rolls are NOT in precise alphabetical order; it is recommended to check throughout the run of a specific surname letter if an individual cannot be found in the normal alphabetical sequence. less

The collection contains drawings and contracts for projects to rehabilitate and clean up portions of the former Schuylkill Navigation Company canal basin and the adjacent Schuylkill more River. Most of the drawings relate to the construction of water management systems, aqueducts, dams and canal basins as well as older Schuylkill Navigation Company canal engineering records no longer extant. Includes Contracts #1-#3/16 (1st roll); records of the entire river, property maps, unnumbered contracts of desilting basins, contract sheets, sketches 60-63 (inclusive) R58 to end (A.P.P.1) (2nd roll); F.H. Dechant drawings, property maps, record drawings M-1.14-P29 (3rd roll); Schuylkill Navigation Company drawings for Black Rock, Vincent, Felix, Catfish, Norristown, Plymouth, Flat Rock and Fairmount Dams, Schuylkill Navigation Company agreements number 57, pages 1-82 (4th roll); Schuylkill Navigation Company agreements number 57, pages 83 to end, outline maps of Schuylkill Navigation Company, Water Supply for the City of Philadelphia, proposed aqueduct from Norristown dam, maps of the Schuylkill Navigation Company, Girard Canal Survey (1846) (5th roll); Schuylkill Navigation Company Releases, Damages, pages 228-379, Wages Report from Superintendent to Auditor of Disbursement (790 pages), Water Supply of Reading (9 pages) (6th roll); Schuylkill Navigation Company drawings including Plymouth Dam, Vincent Dam, Oaks Canal, Plan of Hamburg, and Herbines Dam drawings nos. 401-738 (7th roll); Schuylkill Navigation Company drawings including Leizes Dam, Kissingers Dam, profile of Little Reading Dam, Kernsville Dam, Lords Dam, Fells Dam, Schuylkill Navigation Company drawings (10 volumes) (8th roll); Schuylkill River Project Contract Drawings Nos. 18-33, 35-35E, and 36X, Schuylkill River Project Engineers Records and Sketches (9th roll); American Steel Dredge Drawings Contracts Nos. 3 and 13, S.R.P.E. Drawings Contract No. 30 (10th roll); Drawings and Contracts Nos. 10-R Sheet 1, Contract No. 12 Sheet 3 (11th roll); Drawings and Contracts No. 12 Sheet 4 - U.S.E.D. No. 8 sheet 1 (12th roll); and Drawings and Contracts U.S.E.D. No. 9 Sheet 7 - No. 178 (13th roll). Desilting and dredging are examples of specific types of projects. less