1905 - 1912 The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co Annual Report Maps 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  1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912
Book Author  -various
Book Publisher / Year -  Philadelphia Pa. Press Of Allen, Lane & Scott Nos 1211 - 1213 Clover Street
Book Condition and Content - All are clean with solid cover color - any condition issues are noted. All issues are bound together in a Shipman's "Common - Sense" binder - binding is solid but has some sunning, age and light wear with outer spine chipped and frayed at top and bottom.
1905 - 26 pages / light cover age and covers have crease along binding edge which does not affect interior.
1906- 26 pages with two folding maps - L.C. and N. Co. Property between The Lehigh and Schuylkill Rivers showing Proposed Drainage Gangway and Tunnel Nov. 1 1906 / maps look sharp but are very thin paper
1907 - 15 pages
1908 - 17 pages
1909 - 15 pages
1910 - 17 pages - ink name written very top right front -
1911 - 17 pages
1912 - 19 pages - light crease affects issue but not severe
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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