Daddow, Samuel Harries (sold)
Samuel Harries Daddow (March 14, 1827 - March 23, 1875) was an English-American mining engineer and author. Born in Cornwall, England, Samuel immigrated to the United States where he became involved with the Pennsylvania Anthracite Boom. Along with journalist Benjamin Bannon (1807 - 1875), he published Coal, Iron, and Oil, or the Practical Miner, at the time the most lavishly expensive single volume work published in the United States. He married Esther Anne Beadle in 1856, with whom he had one child.
Fueling the Industrial Revolution.
Map of the Anthracite Coalfields of Pennsylvania.
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This is Samuel Harries Daddow and Benjamin Bannan's lavishly produced 1866 geological map of Pennsylvania's Anthracite Coalfields. Anthracite Coal, a high carbon clean burning coal somewhat unique to Northeastern Pennsylvania, fueled the American Industrial Revolution. (more details)
Highlights coal deposits across the U.S.
Coal Fields of the United States.
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This is an 1866 Samuel Harries Daddow map of the United States illustrating its coal fields. Depicting the entire continental United States, fifteen different types of coal fields are numerically identified, including Pennsylvania Anthracite. Colors indicate other deposits, including tertiary coal fields, carboniferous limestone, and areas of uncertain deposits. A profile view of the altitudes along the 38th Parallel presents the wide range of topography from coast to coast, highlighting the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Rocky Mountains, the Great Plains, the Mississippi Valley, and the White Mountains. (more details)