Cannel Coal
notes: label: Description
content: This piece of cannel coal came from the Cedar Grove Coal seam in Logan County, West Virginia. Coal powered early industrial America—first used to fire steam engines and make steel, later to generate electricity and manufacture chemicals. In 1900 almost 2% of Americans were employed as coal miners.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view (fragments)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Agriculture and Natural Resources
label: See more items in
content: Work
label: See more items in
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: United States Department of the Interior. Bureau of Mines
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.MHI-MN-8009
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-8009
label: accession number
content: 236948
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coal
label: Object Type
content: coal
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/4 in x 11 in x 10 1/2 in; 24.765 cm x 27.94 cm x 26.67 cm