Coal.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Matthew T. Scott papers
A collection of business documents relating to the establishment and development of a 55,000-acre frontier estate in Illinois and a 5,000-acre estate in Iowa, by Matthew T. Scott, Jr., of Lexington, Kentucky, the Scott family and other partners. Notebooks and papers dating from 1852 describe purchases, acquisitions and sales of land and the development costs and crop yields of frontier farms.
Raymond B. Clogston Papers
Papers include diary, 1924, containing notes on dyes, dye house rates and the cost of coal and coke; diary, 1937, listing rates of pay and changes in rates for various people indicated by initials only; and notebook, from Prof. Edward Golec (Lowell Technical Institute), containing diary, 1950, includes sheets of notes, many on letterhead of the Merrimack Manufacturing Co.,(Lowell, Mass.) laid in.