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Avondale Shaft: 1911
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 09/03/2007 - 4:26pm.
January 1911. "First Aid to the Injured" man with Draeger Oxygen Helmet. Avondale Shaft, D.L. & W. [Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad] Colliery near Nanticoke, Pennsylvania. View full size. Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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