Lehigh Briquetting Company Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo 426
Scope and Content
The Lehigh Briquetting Company Photograph Collection currently only holds one photograph. It was taken by the Osborn photography studio in Dickinson, N.D. It shows miners in the interior of an underground mine using mining equipment. It was likely taken about the time the company opened for business in 1929.
Dates
- ca. 1929
Access
The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the NDSU Archives.
Copyrights
Copyright is held by creator.
History
The first mentions of coal along the Heart River area was around the 1880s. Mining on a commercial bases took place began at Lehigh, N.D. in 1894 when several companies began underground mining. The Lehigh Briquetting Company began to make fuel briquettes from their factory in 1929. The process would take the raw lignite coal, extract the oil and water and compact the leftover char into large pellets. I created a product that was much higher in BTU per ton than lump coal. At the height of it production, the plant employed about 75 workers. The company was sold to a Canadian group, which then sold to Dickinson Coal Mine Company, and in 1959 the plant was purchased by Husky Industries. The company then switched to making barbecue briquettes.
Extent
1 Photographic Prints (1 photographic print)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Photograph collection of The Lehigh Briquetting Company, which began to make lignite coal fuel briquettes from their factory in 1929.
Provenance
Donor unknown.
Property rights
The NDSU Archives owns the property rights to this collection.
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Lehigh Briquetting Company Photograph Collection
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Institute for Regional Studies Repository
Contact:
West Building N
3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu
West Building N
3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu