Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Slate is loaded into separate cars in the mine and when the "trips" come into the tripple, the slate is dumped onto a conveyor belt which dumps it into moving overhead cars which carry the refuse a mile up the hill where it is dumped
Summary
Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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Date
01/01/1942
Contributors
Collier, John, 1913-1992, photographer
Location
Pittsburgh (Pa.), 40.44056, -79.99583
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html