The vote of Schuylkill County's representative in Congress was included in the 2012 Steven Spielberg film, "Lincoln."
Schuylkill County representative voted against the 13th amendment | January 1865
An 1891 photograph shows workers at the Lincoln Colliery in Schuylkill County
A photograph from 1891 shows mineworkers posed at the bottom of the Lincoln Colliery breaker.
A Nazi propaganda magazine from 1945 featured photographs of a Schuylkill County mining operation
A soldier from Schuylkill County was stunned when he found photographs from the Pennsylvania Coal Region in a magazine published in Nazi Germany.