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* * * These records are held at the Anthracite Heritage Museum, Scranton,
Pennsylvania. * * *
The Ace Coal Company Records are housed at the Anthracite Heritage Museum in
Scranton, Pennsylvania. To arrange an appointment to consult the records call
the Site Administrator at 570-963-4804.
The Ace Coal Company was founded in 1937 in Blakely, Lackawanna County and
the company was reorganized in 1979 under the same name. The records consist
primarily of bound and loose accounts of sales and costs associated with the
mining of anthracite coal. In addition to data on wages and royalties paid for
coal leases, the records document how coal companies were regulated, their economic
impact on supporting service industries, and the costs associated with day to
day operations at a coal breaker. Several volumes document the distribution
of the company's stock and resources from its incorporation on December 21,
1937 through the decline of the hard coal industry during the 1960s. Records
are also present of other coal operators, such as M.S.B. Coal Company (1939-1949),
[Salvator] Mascelli Coal Company (1942-1950), F & W Coal Company (1942-1951),
and F & G Coal Company (1951-1953).
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