Coaldale Colliery Anthracite Carving
Coaldale Colliery Anthracite Carving
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- Description
- Constantine “Koste” Molotzak created the coal carving showing the Coaldale (Schuykill County) colliery of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company during the 1930s. The carving illustrates coal being taken into a large breaker on a pulley car, and another car filled with coal, leaving the colliery. Coal could be polished to a black glossy shine, and used to make jewelry, small statues, or images engraved on a polished surface, like the colliery here. Anna Molotzak donated the carving for her father, who died in an explosion at the Tamaqua mine April 28, 1942 at age 63.
- Object Name
- anthracite coal carving
- ID Number
- AG.MHI-MN-9241
- catalog number
- MHI-MN-9241
- accession number
- 271421
- Credit Line
- Anna Molotzak
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- Work and Industry: Mining
- Work
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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