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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A soldier is shown how a miner swings a pick under a low ceiling in a Pennsylvania anthracite mine. Soldiers, sailors and miners attended the anthracite miners' rallies in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton and Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, September 28th through October 1st

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (vicinity) Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Testing for bad ceiling by sounding with the handle of a pick. If the slate is loose, it is pulled down till the ceiling becomes solid, or if it is very rotten, it is timbered

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A soldier is shown how a miner swings a pick under a low ceiling in a Pennsylvania anthracite mine. Soldiers, sailors and miners attended the anthracite miners' rallies in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton and Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, September 28th through October 1st

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01/01/1942

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Perlitch, William, photographer

United States. Office of War Information.

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Library of Congress

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http://www.loc.gov/

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