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''''The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama''''' is a [[1910]] book commissioned by the [[Birmingham Chamber of Commerce]] and written by [[Ethel Armes]]. The subject is the rise of the [[Birmingham District]] as an industrial region and of [[Birmingham]] as its commercial center. | '''''The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama''''' is a [[1910]] book commissioned by the [[Birmingham Chamber of Commerce]] and written by [[Ethel Armes]]. The subject is the rise of the [[Birmingham District]] as an industrial region and of [[Birmingham]] as its commercial center. | ||
The project was undertaken while many of the pioneers of industrial development were still active, and Armes took advantage of the opportunity to conduct extensive interviews and examine sites first hand. She used her skills as a journalist to craft a riveting narrative from her source material, earning effusive praise from the local press and solid reviews from national critics. She displayed unexpected objectivity for a commissioned work of boosterism, but also evidently bought into the heroic narratives which united the industrialists as a class. | The project was undertaken while many of the pioneers of industrial development were still active, and Armes took advantage of the opportunity to conduct extensive interviews and examine sites first hand. She used her skills as a journalist to craft a riveting narrative from her source material, earning effusive praise from the local press and solid reviews from national critics. She displayed unexpected objectivity for a commissioned work of boosterism, but also evidently bought into the heroic narratives which united the industrialists as a class. |
Revision as of 15:44, 13 December 2010
The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama is a 1910 book commissioned by the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and written by Ethel Armes. The subject is the rise of the Birmingham District as an industrial region and of Birmingham as its commercial center.
The project was undertaken while many of the pioneers of industrial development were still active, and Armes took advantage of the opportunity to conduct extensive interviews and examine sites first hand. She used her skills as a journalist to craft a riveting narrative from her source material, earning effusive praise from the local press and solid reviews from national critics. She displayed unexpected objectivity for a commissioned work of boosterism, but also evidently bought into the heroic narratives which united the industrialists as a class.
The 581-page tome was illustrated with numerous photographic and lithographic plates. It was published by the Chamber of Commerce and printed at the University Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Facsimile reprint editions were published in 1972 by the Book Keeper's Press and in 1987 by Leeds's Beechwood Books imprint.
Chapters
- The Planting of the Seed
- Records of Early Growth
- First Furnace and First Railroad
- Early Records of Jefferson and Walker Counties
- Iron Making and Coal Mining in Tuskaloosa County, 1830-1861
- Bibb and Shelby Counties, 1820-1861
- Pioneer Iron Making in Northeastern Alabama, 1830-1861, and First State Geological Survey
- Early Railroad Enterprises
- Internal Conditions of State and Outbreak of War
- Confederate Arsenal and Naval Foundry
- Coal Mining in Civil War Period
- Iron Making in War Period
- Iron Making in War Period (continued), The Fall of Selma
- Resurrection of the Iron Works 1866-1870
- The Founding of a Great Workshop Town, 1869-1872
- Reconstruction of Oxmoor and Advent of Louisville and Nashville Railroad into Alabama 1872-1873
- Life Saving Measures 1873-1878
- Birmingham Militant 1876-1880
- A Chapter of Progress 1880-1886
- The Northeastern Counties 1870-1890
- The Great Boom of Birmingham 1886-1887
- More Big Business 1886. Records of Sloss Iron and Steel Company and Pioneer Mining and Manufacturing Company
- Advent of Tennessee Company into Alabama (1886) and its Early Trials and Tribulations
- A Series of Lively Incidents in the Birmingham and Sheffield Districts 1887
- The March of the T.C.I. 1888-1895
- Affairs of Birmingham District 1890-1909. Birmingham Coal and Iron Company. Dimmick Pipe Company. Southern Iron and Steel Company. Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company
- Present Day Affairs of Birmingham District (continued). History of the T.C.I. (continued), Organization of Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron Company.
- The Making of Walker County. Pratt Consolidated Coal Company, Galloway Coal Company, Corona Coal Company, Empire Coal Company and Others
- The Triumph of the T.C.I.
References
- Armes, Ethel (1910) The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama. Birmingham: Birmingham Chamber of Commerce
- Fazio, Michael W. (2010) Landscape of Transformations: Architecture and Birmingham, Alabama. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press ISBN 9781572336872