Category:Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex (HAER images)
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English: Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex — ventilation system for the Dorrance Colliery (coal mine complex) on the Susquehanna River in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
- The fans, housed in a three-building complex built in 1884, supplied Coal miners with fresh air and helped keep dangerous gases from building up. The structures were demolished in 2014.
- The Dorrance Colliery was an Anthracite coal mining complex, operated by the Lehigh Valley Coal Company from 1880 through 1959 in Luzerne County, northeastern Pennsylvania.
- Images (1983): 'HAER—Historic American Engineering Record images of Pennsylvania; (loc.gov: HAER Dorrance files).
Media in category "Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex (HAER images)"
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- Mine ventilation buildings
- Mining buildings in Pennsylvania
- Anthracite mining in Pennsylvania
- Historic American Engineering Record images of Pennsylvania
- Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
- Structures in Pennsylvania
- Buildings in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
- Built in Pennsylvania in 1884
- Demolished industry buildings in the United States
- Destroyed buildings in Pennsylvania
- Destroyed in the United States in 2014
- Economy of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
- Economy of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania