View of Shamokin, in the Shamokin coal basin, Northumberland Co. Pa. L...
Print shows a broad view of Shamokin, Pennsylvania, with log cabin and pasture lands in the foreground, river with covered bridge and railroad in the middle distance, and the community in the background on the ... more
Zerby's Run, 1851
Drawing shows a wooded scene with mountain stream at the location of Zerby's Run coal mine on Little Lick Mountain, in Pennsylvania. Title from item. Inscribed in pencil on bottom: Zerby's Run, 1851. Stamped on... more
Gap in Big Mountain, Zerby's Run, no. 1 vein, 1851
Drawing shows the entrance to the Zerby's Run, no. 1 vein coal mine on Little Lick Mountain, in Pennsylvania, with a roadway or creek bed along the gap between the Big and the Little Lick Mountains, also shows ... more
Coal break, Shamokin 1851
Drawing shows the scaffolding of a coal break system with conveyers and chutes for loading railroad cars for transport to larger coal breaking facilities. Title from item. Inscribed in pencil on lower left: Coa... more
Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. Tatarinovskaia kamenno-ugol'naia kop'. Chimke...
Photograph shows excavations at a coal mine in the Syr Darya oblast. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' promyslovai︠a︡, 1871-1872, part 3, p.19. Title from item.
[The Kılınç bridge in Ereğli]
Railway bridge at coal mines. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 28. No. 111. In album: Black Sea lifesaving stations, naval facilities, ports, mines, and factorie... more
[The place called Çatalağzı in Ereğli]
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 23. No. 106. In album: Black Sea lifesaving stations, naval facilities, ports, mines, and factories, Turkey and Greece, Ottoman ... more
Harry Mule receives visitors
"The underground stable, Chap 13, Black Diamonds." (DLC/PP-1932:0029). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Derrick Sterling" by Kirk Munroe, Harper's young peop... more
Look a-here, young fellow, they say you're a-going to drive my mule
"Black Diamonds. Bill Tooley's threat, chapter 3rd" Verso. (DLC/PP-1932:0029). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Derrick Sterling" by Kirk Munroe, Harper's yo... more
A street in a mining village in Pennsylvania
Title on verso. Variant title on verso: Miner's village. (DLC/PP-1932:0029). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Life in the Coal Villages," Harper's weekly, 32... more
Woodward coal breakers, Kingston, Pa., shaft house
Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 011588. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Plymouth coal breaker, Pa
Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 011615. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Breaker boys, Woodward coal breakers, Kingston, Pa.
Title and date from Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). "Dup" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 011589. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Elk Mountain coal mines
"Detroit Photographic Co." and "137" on negative. Commissioned by Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 01814. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Elk Mountain Coal Mines
Print made in 1985 by LC Photoduplication Service from original glass negative. Duplicate film negative is: LC-D43-T01-1814. Date based on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad commission. "Detroit Photographic Co." Detr... more
Coal loading at plant, possibly Ford Collier
Title devised by cataloger. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
A Kentucky coal mine
Photograph shows man with donkey-drawn mine cars filled with ore outside Kentucky coal mine. Photo by Wrenn & King, Lexington, Ky. Additional title on item: Kentucky. Kentucky Coal Mine, horse-drawn coal cars o... more
Coal mining scenes
Photograph shows a montage of six scenes depicting coal miners and mining: Mouth of tunnel, Setting props, Coal breaker, At foot of shaft, On the bucket, and Picking slate. Copyright by Albertype Co. Title from item.
Breaker boys, Woodward Coal Mines, Kingston, Pa
Detroit Publishing Co. no. 011590. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Emergency hospital in anthracite coal mines
One man bandages head of injured man while another bandages his arm. JO7129 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Keystone View Co. No. 32565.
Mining coal three miles under ground, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Stereograph showing two men in mine shaft with mules.
John Mitchell the miner's champion
General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. [Clinton Rhodes & Co., ... more
President Thomas's little joke / Ehrhart.
Illustration shows a vignette cartoon with at center a group of six men, among them John D. Rockefeller and E.B. Thomas, warming themselves by a stove labeled "Standard Oil"; the vignette at bottom left shows A... more
The Woodard Coal Mine near Plymouth, Pa. which broke the world's recor...
Photograph shows man standing on railroad tracks with Woodward Coal Mine facility in background. No. 1592. Additional title on item: Pennsylvania. Plymouth Woodward Coal Mine. Title from item.
River coal trade, Pittsburg, Pa., U.S.A
No. 6337. Title from item.
Overlooking coal plant from above the mouth of tunnel, near Pittsburg,...
No. 6535. Title from item.
Westmoreland breaker
Coal breaker, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Wittemann Collection.
[Coal miners at work in mine]
Photograph of sterograph half shows two miners working by candlelight in mine. Copyright 1906 by Underwood & Underwood. U-85503. Title devised by Library staff.
A coal mine tipple where coal is weighed and loaded into freight cars,...
No. 13223. Title from item.
Group of miners in the main tunnel (1 12 miles long) of a huge coal mi...
No. 13216. Title from item.
Coming out of a "room" with a loaded car into the main tunnel of a coa...
No. 13219. Title from item.
Loaded cars ascending, empties descending at the tipple, coal mine, Pi...
No. 13222. Title from item.
Group of Miners, Drivers and Trapper. Macdonald, W. Va., Mine. Oct. 19...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 145. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... more
Tipple at Turkey Knob Mine, Macdonald, W. Va. Bank Boss in centre. Loc...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 144. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... more
A tipple, Gaston mine. Location: Fairmont, West Virginia
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 181. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... more
Driver Boy, Barnesville, Mine. Location: Fairmont, West Virginia
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 192. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... more
Drift Mouth, San Lick Mine, near Grafton, W. Va. Bank Boss in centre: ...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 140. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... more
Tipple & Elevator into shaft. Leads down to mine 200 ft. below. Gary M...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 67. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divi... more
Bank boss, (with lamp between knees) Motorman, Brake-boy and Driver. G...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 133. The phrase, "live wire" is underlined on the caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee ... more
Machine used in Gary W. Va. mine that digs the coal and loads it on th...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 71. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divi... more
Lick Run, Pa. men hauling coal from their own mines
Photograph by National Photo Co.
The mining village near Mauch Chunk
Prints shows Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, with coal mine in the distance. Wuerth, 525. Edition of 50? Signed in pencil. Plate destroyed. (Source: Beall) Title from item. Place of creation based on Pennell's resid... more
[Miner working in coal mine]
National Photo Company Collection. No. 23704.
Young boy carrying armful of steel rods, "spragging irons" along the e...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1831. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... more
Basil Roberts and James Hopper, both 12 years old, go to school when i...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1706. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... more
Part of the tipple at Bessie Mine. Location: Bessie Mine, Alabama
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1828. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... more
The threatening coal strike
Five miners ascending a mine shaft in cage, Kingston Coal Co., Pennsylvania. Photograph by National Photo Co.
Part of the tipple at Bessie Mine. Location: Bessie Mine, Alabama
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1829. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... more
A Boy (may be over 14) at Heavy Work. Shoveling Ore at Daisy Bell Mine...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1707. No text recorded after final comma on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collec... more
Breaker of the Chauncy (Pa.) Colliery, where a 15 year old breaker-boy...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1931. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... more
Arthur Havard, a young driver. Shaft #6. Pennsylvania Coal Company. Lo...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1912. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... more
A view of Ewen Breaker of the Pa. Pennsylvania Coal Co. The dust was s...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1938. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... more
Serafino driving Chub, his mule. Shaft #7, Pennsylvania Coal Co., Sout...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1888. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... more
Boys picking slate in a great coal breaker, anthracite mines, Pa.
Photograph shows boys picking slate in coal breaker at anthracite mine in Pennsylvania. J179897 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. No. 11258. U-145483. Copyright 1913 by Underwood & Underwood. Published in... more
Coal mine
Title from jacket. Probably related to negatives D420-2342 to D420-2360. "403" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. K 2350. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Loomis breaker, D.L. & W. R.R., Nanticoke, Pa
Modern anthracite coal breaker and power plant, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. R. Co., Nanticoke, Pa. Photograph from U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps. In album: p. 26. No. A-1165.
U.S. Reports: Chi., Burlington & Q. R. R. v. Harrington, 241 U.S. 177 ...
Description: U.S. Reports Volume 241; October Term, 1915; Chicago, Burlington & (and) Quincy Railroad Company v. Harrington
Hauling coal
Title from jacket. Probably related to negatives D420-2342 to D420-2360. "404" on negative. "West Main" on sign above tunnel. Detroit Publishing Co. no. K 2351. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
The desolation of work
Print shows coal breaker and mountains of coal in desolate landscape. Wuerth, 545. Edition of 20. Signed in reverse on stone; signed in pencil. (Source: Beall) Title from item. Place of creation based on Pennel... more
Empire Coal & Coke Company, tipple and loading booms, Landgraff, West ...
Three coal cars being loaded by tipple and loading booms. U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps photo. Jeffrey, no. 3234-C.
A view looking northwest, from the mouth of a coal pit, showing the de...
J233239 U.S. Copyright Office Photographer's address : 613 14th St., Wash., D.C. No. 9. Copyright deposit; Schutz Group Photographers (Washington, D.C.); May 10, 1919.
U.S. Reports: Lower Vein Co. v. Industrial Board, 255 U.S. 144 (1921)
Description: U.S. Reports Volume 255; October Term, 1920; Lower Vein Coal Company v. Industrial Board of Indiana et al.