Office of the Coal River Mountain Watch
Event: Driving Route 3. Coal River Mountain Watch is an organization that helped to nominate Coal River to the American Rivers' Council's list of the ten most endangered rivers in America.
Typical springless, seatless Chinese coach, looking toward Coal Mounta...
H2171 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph taken by photographer James Ricalton during his trip to China in 1900. (Source: China through the stereoscope; a journey through the dragon empire at the time of the Bo... More
East Broad Top Railroad & Coal Company, Roundhouse, State Route 994, W...
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Holston Army Ammunition Plant, Producer Gas Plant, Kingsport, Sullivan...
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Allendale Coal Processing Plant, Tipple, Separator & Dust Collector, S...
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Coal gatherer at Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania. He receives ten cents per 10...
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Brookside Coal Mine, Tipple (Foundation), Mount Olive Road, North of F...
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![A lonely job. Waiting all alone in the dark for a trip[?] to come through. It was so damp that Willie said he had to go to the doctor for his cough. A short distance from here, the gas was pouring into the mine so rapidly that it made a great torch when the foreman lit it. Lives at 164 Center St., Pittston, Pennsylvania This is Willie Bryden[?], a nipper. Been working there 4 mos. 500 ft. from the shaft, and a quarter of a mile underground from there. Shaft #6 Pennsylvania Coal Co. Walls have been whiterewashed to make it lighter. Jan 16 I found Willie at home sick, His mother admitted he is only 13 yrs old; will be 14 next July. She said 4 months after the mine boss told the father to take Willie to work, and they obtained a certificate from Squire Barrett. The only thing the squire could do was to make Willie out to be 16 yrs. Willie's father & brother are miners and the home is that of a frugal German family. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTEvMDEvMDEvYS1sb25lbHktam9iLXdhaXRpbmctYWxsLWFsb25lLWluLXRoZS1kYXJrLWZvci1hLXRyaXAtdG8tY29tZS10aHJvdWdoLWl0LXdhcy0zLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/28/webp "A lonely job. Waiting all alone in the dark for a trip[?] to come through. It was so damp that Willie said he had to go to the doctor for his cough. A short distance from here, the gas was pouring into the mine so rapidly that it made a great torch when the foreman lit it. Lives at 164 Center St., Pittston, Pennsylvania This is Willie Bryden[?], a nipper. Been working there 4 mos. 500 ft. from the shaft, and a quarter of a mile underground from there. Shaft #6 Pennsylvania Coal Co. Walls have been whiterewashed to make it lighter. Jan 16 I found Willie at home sick, His mother admitted he is only 13 yrs old; will be 14 next July. She said 4 months after the mine boss told the father to take Willie to work, and they obtained a certificate from Squire Barrett. The only thing the squire could do was to make Willie out to be 16 yrs. Willie's father & brother are miners and the home is that of a frugal German family. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.")
A lonely job. Waiting all alone in the dark for a trip[?] to come thro...
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Tennessee Coal & Iron Worker Housing, Off Birmingport Road (AL 269), B...
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Coal mines, Frances Benjamin Johnston collection
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Atlantic Ice & Coal Company, 135 Prince Street, Montgomery, Montgomery...
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Atlantic Ice & Coal Company, 135 Prince Street, Montgomery, Montgomery...
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Atlantic Ice & Coal Company, 135 Prince Street, Montgomery, Montgomery...
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Milford Ice & Coal Company, 18 Maple Avenue, Milford, Sussex County, D...
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Milford Ice & Coal Company, 18 Maple Avenue, Milford, Sussex County, D...
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Mining coal three miles under ground, Pennsylvania
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Three men and young boy at B & M railroad coal chute at Anselmo, Custe...
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Coal breaker, anthracite coal mining, Scranton, Pennsylvania
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N. & W. coal piers, Norfolk, Virginia
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Coal mining scenes - A black and white photo of a man laying on the gr...
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[Truck: Grove Lime & Coal Co.] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...
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Coal chutes, Wymore, Nebr. - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
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The stoker / Albert Levering 1911., Political Cartoon
Illustration shows on the left, J.P. Morgan with oil can labeled "Legislation" oiling a machine labeled "Wall St."; at center is a large belt-driven machine labeled "Control of 'Other Peoples Money'", a large p... More
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![[Hauls scraper and loads coal] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MjMvMDEvMDEvaGF1bHMtc2NyYXBlci1hbmQtbG9hZHMtY29hbC0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/29/webp "[Hauls scraper and loads coal] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.")
[Hauls scraper and loads coal] - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...
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Coal miners, Jenkins, Kentucky. Great Depression public domain photogr...
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Coal mine with strip mining dumps in background. A problem in destruct...
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Coal miners, Birmingham, Alabama
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At White House. Washington, D.C., April 14. John L. Lewis, President o...
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Admits "kicking back" part of salary. Washington, D.C., April 22. He "...
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A group of men standing next to each other holding buckets. Great Depr...
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A black and white photo of a man standing on a dirt road, West Virgini...
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A group of men standing on a train track, West Virginia. Farm Security...
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Coal miner's children playing around tracks. Note live wires. Chaplin,...
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A group of people walking up a set of stairs, West Virginia. Farm Secu...
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A black and white photo of three children on a balcony, West Virginia....
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Coal being screened, Pursglove Cleaning Plant No. 2, West Virginia
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A black and white photo of a man in a truck, West Virginia. Farm Secur...
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An old black and white photo of a house, West Virginia. Farm Security ...
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Coal miner and family. Pursglove, West Virginia. He thinks, "Some peop...
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Coal miner going home with flour and groceries on payday, Osage, West ...
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Coal on riverboat, Scotts Run, West Virginia
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Coal miner and son on porch of their home. The "Patch," Cassville, We...
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Coal miner and two of his children on their back porch. Bertha Hill, W...
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An old photo of a man standing in a door way, West Virginia. Farm Secu...
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A group of men standing next to each other, West Virginia. Farm Securi...
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A black and white photo of a train coming down the tracks, West Virgin...
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Coal miner and daughter. Bush, Illinois
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Coal miners hanging around company store during strike. Kempton, West ...
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A little girl standing in a field holding a baseball bat, West Virgini...
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Coal barges on Ohio River at Rochester, Pennsylvania
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Coal cars near Chavies, Kentucky
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House and ancient slagpile in Coal Hollow, Pennsylvania, about twelve ...
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Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. Coal handling machines...
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...
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Pittsburgh (vicinity), Pennsylvania. Montour Number Four mine of the P...
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Pomeroy, Ohio. Coal miner - safety film negatives, Library of Congress
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...
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McCone County, Montana. Coal mine
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...
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Gallipolis, Ohio. Coal barges passing through locks
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Griffith Consumers Co. Coal pile in Bethesda, Maryland for Griffith Co...
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Aerial view of Montcoal, including continuous belt feeder coming down ...
"When the mines opened in the 19th century were worked out on New River, they began to open on the Allegheny Plateau, where railroad companies built lines along the rivers. In the 1910s the railroad made its wa... More
Public Service of New Jersey, Burlington, New Jersey. Coal hoppers
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Aerial view of Battle Ridge Coal Pit, in Orgas
To better understand the method of mining known as "mountaintop removal and reclamation," Lyntha Eiler and I visited the West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection. There we interviewed Roger Hall, the ... More
Dogwoods (Cornus florida) blooming on Coal River
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Ben Greene, chairman of the West Virginia Surface Mining and Reclamati...
Event: 25th Annual West Virginia Mining Symposium. Panelists include: Jack Caffrey, a mining engineer who is Commissioner of the West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection (WVDEP); Barbara Taylor, in ch... More
East Broad Top Railroad & Coal Company, Roundhouse, State Route 994, W...
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East Broad Top Railroad & Coal Company, Roundhouse, State Route 994, W...
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Breaker boys working in Ewen Breaker of Pennsylvania Coal Co. For some...
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A lying-in visit; or a short-sighted mistake!
A woman leans forward with both arms extended toward a coal-scuttle, held by a uniformed footman who stares at her. Drawing for a print by Isaac Cruikshank. See SWANN - no. 350 (A size) for related image. The ... More
Holston Army Ammunition Plant, Producer Gas Plant, Kingsport, Sullivan...
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![[Stealing coal from railroad coal-yard.] Location: [Boston, Massachusetts]. / Lewis W. Hine.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTcvMDEvMDEvc3RlYWxpbmctY29hbC1mcm9tLXJhaWxyb2FkLWNvYWwteWFyZC1sb2NhdGlvbi1ib3N0b24tbWFzc2FjaHVzZXR0cy1sZXdpcy13LTQtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/28/webp "[Stealing coal from railroad coal-yard.] Location: [Boston, Massachusetts]. / Lewis W. Hine.")
[Stealing coal from railroad coal-yard.] Location: [Boston, Massachus...
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![Holding the door open while a trip[?] goes through. Willie Bryden, a nipper, 164 Center St. A lonely job. Waiting all alone in the dark for a trip to come through. It was so damp that Willie said he had to be doctoring all the time for his cough. A short distance from here, the gas was pouring into the mine so rapidly that it made a great torch when the foreman lit it. Willie had been working here for four months, 500 feet down the shaft, and a quarter of a mile underground from there. (Shaft #6 Pennsylvania Coal Co.) Walls have been whitewashed to make it lighter. January 16th, I found Willie at home sick, His mother admitted that he is only 13 yrs old; will be 14 next July. Said that 4 mos. ago the mine boss told the father to take Willie to work, and that they obtained the certificate from Squire Barrett. (The only thing the Squire could do was to make Willie out to be 16 yrs old.) Willie's father and brother are miners and the home is that of a frugal German family. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTEvMDEvMDEvaG9sZGluZy10aGUtZG9vci1vcGVuLXdoaWxlLWEtdHJpcC1nb2VzLXRocm91Z2gtd2lsbGllLWJyeWRlbi1hLW5pcHBlci0xNjQtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/27/webp "Holding the door open while a trip[?] goes through. Willie Bryden, a nipper, 164 Center St. A lonely job. Waiting all alone in the dark for a trip to come through. It was so damp that Willie said he had to be doctoring all the time for his cough. A short distance from here, the gas was pouring into the mine so rapidly that it made a great torch when the foreman lit it. Willie had been working here for four months, 500 feet down the shaft, and a quarter of a mile underground from there. (Shaft #6 Pennsylvania Coal Co.) Walls have been whitewashed to make it lighter. January 16th, I found Willie at home sick, His mother admitted that he is only 13 yrs old; will be 14 next July. Said that 4 mos. ago the mine boss told the father to take Willie to work, and that they obtained the certificate from Squire Barrett. (The only thing the Squire could do was to make Willie out to be 16 yrs old.) Willie's father and brother are miners and the home is that of a frugal German family. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.")
Holding the door open while a trip[?] goes through. Willie Bryden, a n...
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![Holding the door open while a trip[?] goes through. Willie Bryden, a nipper, 164 Center St. A lonely job. Waiting all alone in the dark for a trip to come through. It was so damp that Willie said he had to be doctoring all the time for his cough. A short distance from here, the gas was pouring into the mine so rapidly that it made a great torch when the foreman lit it. Willie had been working here for four months, 500 feet down the shaft, and a quarter of a mile underground from there. (Shaft #6 Pennsylvania Coal Co.) Walls have been whitewashed to make it lighter. January 16th, I found Willie at home sick, His mother admitted that he is only 13 yrs old; will be 14 next July. Said that 4 mos. ago the mine boss told the father to take Willie to work, and that they obtained the certificate from Squire Barrett. (The only thing the Squire could do was to make Willie out to be 16 yrs old.) Willie's father and brother are miners and the home is that of a frugal German family. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTEvMDEvMDEvaG9sZGluZy10aGUtZG9vci1vcGVuLXdoaWxlLWEtdHJpcC1nb2VzLXRocm91Z2gtd2lsbGllLWJyeWRlbi1hLW5pcHBlci0xNjQtMS02NDAuanBn/40/27/webp "Holding the door open while a trip[?] goes through. Willie Bryden, a nipper, 164 Center St. A lonely job. Waiting all alone in the dark for a trip to come through. It was so damp that Willie said he had to be doctoring all the time for his cough. A short distance from here, the gas was pouring into the mine so rapidly that it made a great torch when the foreman lit it. Willie had been working here for four months, 500 feet down the shaft, and a quarter of a mile underground from there. (Shaft #6 Pennsylvania Coal Co.) Walls have been whitewashed to make it lighter. January 16th, I found Willie at home sick, His mother admitted that he is only 13 yrs old; will be 14 next July. Said that 4 mos. ago the mine boss told the father to take Willie to work, and that they obtained the certificate from Squire Barrett. (The only thing the Squire could do was to make Willie out to be 16 yrs old.) Willie's father and brother are miners and the home is that of a frugal German family. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.")
Holding the door open while a trip[?] goes through. Willie Bryden, a n...
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Ore and coal docks, Erie, Pennsylvania - Public domain image. Dry plat...
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Hard work and dangerous for such a young boy. James O'Dell, a greaser ...
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![A lonely job. Waiting all alone in the dark for a trip[?] to come through. It was so damp that Willie said he had to go to the doctor for his cough. A short distance from here, the gas was pouring into the mine so rapidly that it made a great torch when the foreman lit it. Lives at 164 Center St., Pittston, Pennsylvania This is Willie Bryden[?], a nipper. Been working there 4 mos. 500 ft. from the shaft, and a quarter of a mile underground from there. Shaft #6 Pennsylvania Coal Co. Walls have been whiterewashed to make it lighter. Jan 16 I found Willie at home sick, His mother admitted he is only 13 yrs old; will be 14 next July. She said 4 months after the mine boss told the father to take Willie to work, and they obtained a certificate from Squire Barrett. The only thing the squire could do was to make Willie out to be 16 yrs. Willie's father & brother are miners and the home is that of a frugal German family. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTEvMDEvMDEvYS1sb25lbHktam9iLXdhaXRpbmctYWxsLWFsb25lLWluLXRoZS1kYXJrLWZvci1hLXRyaXAtdG8tY29tZS10aHJvdWdoLWl0LXdhcy0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/28/webp "A lonely job. Waiting all alone in the dark for a trip[?] to come through. It was so damp that Willie said he had to go to the doctor for his cough. A short distance from here, the gas was pouring into the mine so rapidly that it made a great torch when the foreman lit it. Lives at 164 Center St., Pittston, Pennsylvania This is Willie Bryden[?], a nipper. Been working there 4 mos. 500 ft. from the shaft, and a quarter of a mile underground from there. Shaft #6 Pennsylvania Coal Co. Walls have been whiterewashed to make it lighter. Jan 16 I found Willie at home sick, His mother admitted he is only 13 yrs old; will be 14 next July. She said 4 months after the mine boss told the father to take Willie to work, and they obtained a certificate from Squire Barrett. The only thing the squire could do was to make Willie out to be 16 yrs. Willie's father & brother are miners and the home is that of a frugal German family. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.")
A lonely job. Waiting all alone in the dark for a trip[?] to come thro...
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![At the close of the day. Just up from the shaft. All work below ground in aPennsylvania Coal Mine. Smallest boy, next to right hand end is a nipper. On his right is Arthur, a driver, Jo on Arthur's right is a nipper. Frank, boy on left end of photo, is a nipper, works a mile underground from the shaft, which is 5000 Ft. down. Location: [South Pittston?], Pennsylvania.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTAvMDEvMDEvYXQtdGhlLWNsb3NlLW9mLXRoZS1kYXktanVzdC11cC1mcm9tLXRoZS1zaGFmdC1hbGwtd29yay1iZWxvdy1ncm91bmQtaW4tYXBlbm5zeWx2YW5pYS0xLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/27/webp "At the close of the day. Just up from the shaft. All work below ground in aPennsylvania Coal Mine. Smallest boy, next to right hand end is a nipper. On his right is Arthur, a driver, Jo on Arthur's right is a nipper. Frank, boy on left end of photo, is a nipper, works a mile underground from the shaft, which is 5000 Ft. down. Location: [South Pittston?], Pennsylvania.")
At the close of the day. Just up from the shaft. All work below ground...
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Tennessee Coal & Iron Worker Housing, Off Birmingport Road (AL 269), B...
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A young leader and a driver, Shaft #6, Pennsylvania Coal Company. Pasq...
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Atlantic Ice & Coal Company, 135 Prince Street, Montgomery, Montgomery...
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Atlantic Ice & Coal Company, 135 Prince Street, Montgomery, Montgomery...
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Atlantic Ice & Coal Company, 135 Prince Street, Montgomery, Montgomery...
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Milford Ice & Coal Company, 18 Maple Avenue, Milford, Sussex County, D...
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Coal dumping machine, Ashtabula, Ohio
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Coal in Nenana Fields - Frank G. Carpenter collection
Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.
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Hessick Coal Co. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
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Group of boys working in #9 Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Co., Hughestown...
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EASTERN OHIO COAL STRIKE COMMITTEE: REP. W.B. FRANCIS OF OHIO; SEC. WI...
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