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HAER PA,40-WILB,5- (sheet 4 of 7) - Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Route 115 and Riechard Street, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, PA
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HAER PA,40-WILB,5- (sheet 4 of 7) - Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Route 115 and Riechard Street, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, PA
Description
Lehigh Valley Coal Company; Lehigh Valley Railroad; Wyoming Historical and Geological Society; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; Pagnotti Enterprises, Inc; Dorrance, Charles; Parrish, George A; Culver, W B; Bounds, Pierce, photographer; Dombroski, Marian, delineator; Bowie, John R, delineator
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Luzerne County; Wilkes-Barre
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER PA,40-WILB,5- (sheet 4 of 7)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The Dorrance Colliery's mine fan complex spanned the history of the colliery. The oldest fan, an 1883 cast iron and wood Guibal, is the last known survival of the most common type used in the anthracite region. Its 35-foot diameter span, while not unique, was the largest of the fans found in the coalfields. Not only was the fan in good condition, it still was connected to its original power source - an 1883 horizontal slide valve steam engine. In addition to the Guibal fan, the Dorrance fan complex housed two other fans and the remains of their steam engines. One was a 1908 28-foot Dickson-Guibal fan powered by a Corliss steam engine, the other a c. 1930 Duplex Conoidal fan and Corliss steam engine. The Dorrance fan complex - its fans, engines and buildings - represented the technological development of mine ventilation. The complex was identified as the most complete mine ventilation system in the anthracite region.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-14
  • Survey number: HAER PA-61
  • Building/structure dates: 1883-1884 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1889 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1908-1909 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1930 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa1650.sheet.00004a
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Object location41° 14′ 44.99″ N, 75° 52′ 54.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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