1856 - 1867 12 The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. Annual Reports LC&N Maps Penn

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  1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1867
Book Author - various
Book Publisher / Year -  1856 - 1867 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania John C. Clark Printer 60 Dock Street and later 230 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. 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 1856 it is 1855 being reported on for the most part.
1856 - 22 pages
1857 - 20 pages
1858 - 20 pages
1859 - 21 pages
1860 - 23 pages
1861 - 25 pages - a few pencil lines at margins to mark paragraph
1862 - 37 pages
1863 - 60 pages
1864 - 45 pages
1865 - 41 pages - light crease to center and several paragraphs have pencil lines to margins
1866 - 38 pages - several pencil lines at margins to mark a few paragraphs
1867 - 46 pages - last page or two has a bit of edgewear - 2 folding maps at end have much age and damage -
Map of Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad showing its present and contemplated connections with other rail roads - it has a 2+ inch closed tear at gutter edge // 2nd map has 5+ inch jagged closed tear and many of the folds have torn or are weak and the lowest part may be missing /
Map of the mines, canals, and railroads owned or controlled by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co. May 1867 /
there is a third map or section attached after 2nd as well-
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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