Coal

  Coal was and still is, literally, the driving force in America. Practically nothing ran without it back when these cards were produced. Coal is still the largest energy source in the country with 50% of the power produced is with coal. To illustrate this, in 1915, there were 140 coal dealers. Check your phone book and see how many you can find. Although coal is still extremely important in today's society I only found one. Mergers have formed mega Corporations.

               
      Trum Coal Co.                       Island Creek Coal               Steamer Catharine Davis

       
Superior Fuel 

MIDDLE  WEST  COAL  COMPANY

                   
Blue Pennant Coal                                                                            Yellow Jacket Coal 

                
Tepee Elkhorn Coal                                                                    Flambeau  Elkhorn Coal

   All four cards above were sent out by The Middle West Coal Co., Inc. Their offices were in the 1st National Bank Building. The same Building where the Marmet-Halm Coal Co. were located. Not to mention The Diamond Coal & Coke Co., The Chesapeake & Ohio Coal & Coke Co., Belmont Coal, Raleigh Coal & Coke Co., Raymond City Coal & Coke co., The E. L. Sternberger Coal Co., The Waldensia Coal & Coke Co., The Winifrede Coal Co. I would think that this building was probably kept pretty warm during the winter months.

                                           
                          Blue Diamond Coal Co.                                                                        Adam F. Meyer Coal Co.

MARMET-HALM  COAL  &  COKE  CO.

   
George  M. Halm  President

                       
These are on the backs of all these cards

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                      Florence Marmet                                        Otto Marmet                        Sallie Marmet

                
Building the Otto Marmet                                                                                                                                        

   Cincinnati and North Bend Offices and facilities of the Marmet-Halm Coal & Coke Co. Their mines were in West Virginia. In the first card in the middle row above you can see Covington KY. as seen from Marmet Coal Yards with the coal boat Florence Marmet in the lower left. You can see the Florence Marmet in the flood & ice gorge part of the disaster section.

These are not postcards
                       
                       1894 Ad.                            1912 Marmet ad   

       
Campbell's Creek Coal Co.

       
Both sides of a double card for Grenadier "Rainbow" Stoker Coal

Coal barges on the Ohio River 

   
2 Ads for the Queen City Coal Co.