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Fine Art Images of the Anthracite Coal Industry

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Fine Art Images of the Anthracite Coal Industry

October 18 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Free

Join Richard Stanislaus, retired Museum Curator from the Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission for a fascinating 45-minute presentation that traces the visual history of the Anthracite Coal Industry through art. Beginning with a 19th-century wood engraving and culminating with a 1943 image of bootleg coal mining in Shenandoah, Pa. You will see images in charcoal, watercolors, oil paintings, lithographs and wood engravings in this 45-minute presentation.