21 1856 - 1876 The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. Annual Report Maps LC&N charts

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 - 1876
Book Author - various
Book Publisher / Year - 1856 to 1867 report is Philadelphia Pa. John C. Clark & Son Printers 230 Dock Street // 1868, 1869, 1870 report is printed by The Leisenring Steam Printing House Jayne's Building Nos 237 and 239 Dock Street  // 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876  Wm. Mann Printer 329 Market Street
Book Condition and Content - Any condition issues are noted with each year. All issues are bound together in what was a hardback format - the boards are gone and now it is just bound textblock. These reports originally had colored paper covers - they were removed when this large group was bound together. Some age and chipping to first few and last few pages. Signs of handling and age but overall clean - maps and charts may have an occasional small closed tear, age or chip but are all overall clean.
1856 - 20 pages Title page has some age with light dampstain first few pages.
1857- 20 pages
1858 - 21 pages
1859 - 23 pages with light fold at center.
1860 - 25 pages - light fold center and ink stain first few pages lower left margin corner
1861 - 37 pages - light fold to center
1862 - 59 pages with light fold center
1863 - 44 pages
1864 - 41 pages with faint fold at center
1865 - 38 pages
1866 - 46 pages with light fold at center - newspaper clipping circa 1866 attached at page 46 - two large fold out map are after - Map of Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad showing its present and contemplated connections with other rail roads
Map has ink note about RR - see image
// 2nd map -
Map of the mines, canals, and railroads owned or controlled by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co. May 1867 -
You can see Luzerne County, Schuylkill County, Monroe County, Carbon County, Lehigh County and Northampton County in map.
1867 - 58 pages
(from 1867 to the end at 1876 there is and on and off light fold at center)
1868 - 69 pages - foldout sheet showing number of passengers carried to and from each station on the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad in 1868 as well as another fold out showing the fright tonnage to and from for the same stations. Towards end is a larger fold out map showing sections of coal beds Panther Creek Valley.
1869 - 54 pages
1870 - 48 pages -
1871 - 24 pages
1872 - 18 pages
1873 - 21 pages
1874 - 16 pages -
1875 - 21 pages
1876 - 33 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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