Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 139, No. 3, October 2015

Published: 2023-03-22

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Front Matter

• Front Matter

  Historical Society of Pennsylvania

  i-vi

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Editorial

• Editorial

  Tamara Gaskell

  vii-viii

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Introduction

• Introduction

  Brian C. Black, Donna J. Rilling

  247-248

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Review Essay

• Review Essay: Energy in Pennsylvania History

  Brian C. Black, Ann Norton Greene, Marcy Ladson

  249-264

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Articles

• Abundance, Dependence, and Trauma at Philadelphia’s Point Breeze Petroleum Refnery: A Mirror on the History of Pennsylvania’s Oil Industry

  Fredric L. Quivik

  265-292

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• “New and Untried Hands”: Thomas Edison’s Electrification of Pennsylvania Towns, 1883–85

  Louis Carlat, Daniel Weeks

  293-321

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• Boom and Bust in Pittsburgh Natural Gas History: Development, Policy, and Environmental Effects, 1878–1920

  Joel A. Tarr, Karen Clay

  323-342

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Book Reviews

• Book Review: The Ubiquity of Coal in the Mid-Atlantic

  Allen Dieterich-Ward

  343-348

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Hidden Gems

• Houses No Warmer than Barns: Peter Kalm on Fireplaces and Firewood in Colonial Pennsylvania

  Karen Reeds

  349-352

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• Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site

  Leah S. Glaser

  353-355

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• Locating Philadelphia’s Water-Powered Past

  Donna J. Rilling

  356-359

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• Anthracite Country Reaches for the World, 1851

  Peter A. Shulman

  360-362

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• Roadside America and the Engine(s) of Progress

  Samantha J. Boardman

  363-365

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Index

• Index

  Historical Society of Pennsylvania

  373-297

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