October 1908. Digging coal by machinery at the Brown Mine in West Virginia. Note open-flame ... the subject here .
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May 1939. The coal company town of Kempton, West Virginia. View full size. 35mm nitrate ... is located in Maryland. The state of Maryland didn't allow mining company stores so therefore the store and the post office were located ...
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1937. Salvaging coal from the slag heap at Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania. Coal pickers get 10 cents for each hundred-pound sack or two dollars a ton. One ... this delightful little town.
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... father-in-law was raised in Raleigh, Illinois, which was coal territory. In the late 1990s, he sold his coal rights to a company and made some decent money for doing nothing. The ... a drop-bottom.
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1937. Salvaging coal from the slag heap at Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania. Coal pickers get 10 cents for each hundred-pound sack or two dollars a ton. One ... background.
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... of railroad tracks that lead out to cranes for unloading coal in the Marquette Harbor. The wall is for safety as it was a 16' drop down ... into ore boats to take the iron ore to Pittsburgh. Iron mining was and still is a big business in Marquette County. The photo in ...
... These piles were a prominent fixture around most “coal patches”, and went by various names; in Southwestern Pennsylvania they were called slate dumps. One could also find good coal among the slate and my childhood “patch” had at least one family of ... been invented yet.
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Kingston, Pennsylvania, circa 1900. "Woodward coal breaker, shaft house." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit ... "getting the shaft" came from.
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"Safety sign in coal mine" circa 1915. View full size. National Photo Company.
Safety ... THANKS !!
Mark from BOSTON june 5 2008
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January 1911. Shaft #6, Pennsylvania Coal Co. mine at South Pittston. "At the close of the day. Waiting for the cage ...
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... "Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Joe Gladski, wife of a coal miner at Maple Hill." Photo by Sheldon Dick, Resettlement Administration. ... 31 in this photo. Joe's job was as an organizer for the coal miners' union (at $2500/year), so he may have been out getting beat up by ... Sadski, Madski and Badski somewhere?
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... (vicinity). Montour No. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Coal miner waiting to go underground." Medium-format nitrate negative by John ... appropriate photographer?
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September 1938. "Coal miners waiting for the bus to go home in Osage, West Virginia." Medium ... to stick their elbow in!
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... and motor power. A young driver in Shaft #6, Pennsylvania Coal Company mine at Pittston. View full size. 5x7 glass negative by Lewis ... Collection.
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October 1935. Coal miner in Jenkins, Kentucky. View full size. Photograph by Ben Shahn. ... photo One of our favorite photos showing Kentucky Coal Miners.
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September 1938. "Coalmining town of Welch [i.e., Eckman], in the Bluefield section of West ... see the resemblance.
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... September 30th through October 1st, and saw how hard coal is extracted from beneath the earth's surface." 4x5 nitrate negative by ... that have reflective strips on them.
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... and a quarter mile from there. (Shaft #6, Pennsylvania Coal Co.) Walls have been whitewashed to make it lighter. January 16, I found ... to buy candles.
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... A young leader and a driver, Shaft #6, Pennsylvania Coal Company mine at Pittston. Pasquale Salvo and Sandy Castina. January 1911. ... larger broader gauge.
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September 1938. Capels, West Virginia. "Coal miner waiting for lift home." Last seen here , six years ago. Photo by ... life.
How sad After a grueling days work in the coal mine, rolling a cigarette to relax. I don't think they had any idea in ... to guide them. - Dave]
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... March 1937. "Scott's Run, West Virginia. Pursglove No. 2 coal mine. Scene taken from main highway shows company store and typical ... about it here .
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... October 1935. Workers coming off the job at Consolidated Coal in Jenkins, Kentucky. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben ... the FSA.
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... working in #9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough, Pennsylvania Coal Company. Boy on left is Tony Ross, 142 Panama Street. Other small boy is ... Sunday's Finest Clothes Four Shorpy wannabes. Hard coal breaker boys. Tough dirty job for anybody.
A Grim Life Well done ... of a breaker boy .
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... of the day, just up from the shaft at the Pennsylvania Coal Company's South Pittston mine. Smallest boy, next to right hand end, is a ... by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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January 1939. "Abandoned store in which coal miner on relief lives. Zeigler, Illinois." Medium format negative by ...
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September 1938. "Mother-in-law of unemployed coal miner and his child. Marine, West Virginia." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. ... Very powerful.
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