Object Details
- Description
- This piece of cannel coal came from the Cedar Grove Coal seam in Logan County, West Virginia. Coal powered early industrial America—first used to fire steam engines and make steel, later to generate electricity and manufacture chemicals. In 1900 almost 2% of Americans were employed as coal miners.
- Location
- Currently not on view (fragments)
- Credit Line
- United States Department of the Interior. Bureau of Mines
- ID Number
- AG.MHI-MN-8009
- catalog number
- MHI-MN-8009
- accession number
- 236948
- Object Name
- coal
- Object Type
- coal
- Measurements
- overall: 9 3/4 in x 11 in x 10 1/2 in; 24.765 cm x 27.94 cm x 26.67 cm
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Agriculture and Natural Resources
- Work
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_871915
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-c9b0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
