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

Published March 22, 2023
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 139, No. 3, October 2015
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Front Matter

Historical Society of Pennsylvania
i-vi
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Editorial

Tamara Gaskell
vii-viii
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Introduction

Brian C. Black, Donna J. Rilling
247-248
Introduction
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Review Essay

Brian C. Black, Ann Norton Greene, Marcy Ladson
249-264
Review Essay: Energy in Pennsylvania History
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Articles

Fredric L. Quivik
265-292
Abundance, Dependence, and Trauma at Philadelphia’s Point Breeze Petroleum Refnery: A Mirror on the History of Pennsylvania’s Oil Industry
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Louis Carlat, Daniel Weeks
293-321
“New and Untried Hands”: Thomas Edison’s Electrification of Pennsylvania Towns, 1883–85
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Joel A. Tarr, Karen Clay
323-342
Boom and Bust in Pittsburgh Natural Gas History: Development, Policy, and Environmental Effects, 1878–1920
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Book Reviews

Allen Dieterich-Ward
343-348
Book Review: The Ubiquity of Coal in the Mid-Atlantic
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Hidden Gems

Karen Reeds
349-352
Houses No Warmer than Barns: Peter Kalm on Fireplaces and Firewood in Colonial Pennsylvania
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Leah S. Glaser
353-355
Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site
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Donna J. Rilling
356-359
Locating Philadelphia’s Water-Powered Past
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Peter A. Shulman
360-362
Anthracite Country Reaches for the World, 1851
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Samantha J. Boardman
363-365
Roadside America and the Engine(s) of Progress
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Index

Historical Society of Pennsylvania
373-297
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