Scope and Contents The collection consists of records related to the coal mine fire in the town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, collected by Joan Girolami, a resident of Centralia from approximately 1965 to 1984. The collection contains correspondence, deeds, reports, news articles, maps, photographs, a test tube, and other Centralia fire related memorabilia and records including the 1983 dissertation of Jane Anne Donohue, a graduate student of social work and social research at Bryn Mawr College....