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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], J.J. Rutledge Technical Writings on Coal Mining, A&amp;M 3312, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Papers of J.J. Rutledge of the Maryland Bureau of Mines; includes mostly technical writings on coal mining published by the Bureau, Geological Survey, etc.</p>  </scopecontent>
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individual mines for WV, AL, IA, MD, and KY; includes many US Geological Survey maps of mines in the Great Lakes region of the US) [unfoldered]</unittitle><unitid type="ark"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/165706" xlink:show="new">Archival Resource Key</extref></unitid><unitid type="ark-superseded"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/165688" xlink:show="new">Previous Archival Resource Key</extref></unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/164329</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1900/1940" type="inclusive">1900–1940</unitdate><container id="aspace_ec307e29ef481e2d30919d86abeb0030" label="Mixed Materials" type="Box">2</container></did></c><c id="aspace_d72b164c4d9fdbbaa677296b9c6f3343" level="otherlevel" otherlevel="Box"><did><unittitle>Publications (includes materials that document mostly coal mining practices and coal mining in the eastern United 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