1841 - 1855 The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. Annual Report LC&N Pennsylvania

Description

This listing is for the following bound annual report booklets - If you have any questions please let me know.
Book Title - Annual Report of The Board of Managers of The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company To The Stockholders  1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1845, 1846, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855
Book Author - various
Book Publisher / Year -  1841, 1843, 1844, 1845, 1846, Philadelphia Pennsylvania Printed by William S. Young, No. 88 North Sixth Street / 1842 Brown, Bicking & Guilbert , Printers No. 56 North Third Street / 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855  Philadelphia John C. Clark Printer 60 Dock Street
Book Condition and Content - All are clean with solid cover color - any condition issues are notes. All issues are bound together in hardback with simple gilt titles. All years have original colored paper front covers that are essentially the title page but printed on color stock - each year was assigned a different color and it is not typical to see covers intact when these reports are offered for sale. The rear paper cover for each year is missing. All issues are overall very clean and sharp. Below I have them listed by year and if any issue has damage or extra condition issue I will have it listed. Whatever the published year for a report it would be the previous year being reported - so if it is published 1841 it is 1840 being reported on for the most part.
1841 - 19 pages - small piece of paper attached to top margin of title page - minor
1842 - 24 pages
1843 - 30 pages
1844 - 35 pages - small ink name written very top right edge of paper cover
1845 - 16 pages - small piece missing lower left corner of paper cover and ink name written very top edge margin / light fold at center
1846 - 24 pages - small pencil line at margin of one paragraph
1847 - 17 pages - light pencil name written top edge margin of paper cover / pencil line to one margin side of one paragraph
1848 - 24 pages - two pencil lines in margins next to 2 separate paragraphs
1849 - 22 pages
1850 - 23 pages - small missing paper at lower left edge of front paper cover
1851 - 23 pages - one simple pencil line in margin to mark paragraph
1852 - 20 pages
1853 - 24 pages
1854 - 19 pages
1855 - 23 pages
About the company - The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company was a mining and transportation company that operated in Pennsylvania from 1818 (1820 & 1822) to 1964. It ultimately encompassed source industries, transport, and manufacturing, making it the first vertically integrated company in the United States.
Building on two predecessor companies incorporated in 1818, founders Erskine Hazard and Josiah White entered the coal industry to serve customers seeking a steady supply of fuel for foundries and mills on the falls of the Schuylkill River. Their LC&N spearheaded the Industrial Revolution in the United States, accelerating regional industrial development by taking on civil engineering challenges thought impossible and creating important transport and mining infrastructure. Most importantly, the LC&N established the Lower Lehigh Canal (begun 1818, usable 1820, improved 1821–24, and made two-way in 1827-29) and taught America to burn anthracite. By the early 1830s, the Lehigh Canal and its "bridging" river trip along the Delaware River inspired and connected four other canals.
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