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The Mahoning Mine, Hibbing, Minn.,  Panoramic Photograph

The Mahoning Mine, Hibbing, Minn., Panoramic Photograph

H21600 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Crandall & Fletcher; August 11, 1902; DLC/PP-1902:41681. Copyright claimant's address: 323 W. Sup. St., Duluth, Minn.

A tipple, Gaston mine.  Location: Fairmont, West Virginia.

A tipple, Gaston mine. Location: Fairmont, West Virginia.

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Copper mine, interior] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

[Copper mine, interior] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[The place called Çatalağzı in Ereğli]

[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

[Loading a mine car] - Drawing. Public domain image.

[Loading a mine car] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Hauling coal] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

[Hauling coal] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hard work and dangerous for such a young boy. James O'Dell, a greaser and coupler on the tipple of the Cross Mountain Mine, Knoxville Iron Co., in the vicinity of Coal Creek, Tenn. James has been there four months. Helps push these heavily loaded cars. Appears to be about 12 or 13 years old.  Location: Coal Creek, Tennessee.

Hard work and dangerous for such a young boy. James O'Dell, a greaser ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[The sun-dried brick factory in Ereğli]

[The sun-dried brick factory in Ereğli]

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 30. No. 113. In album: Black Sea lifesaving stations, naval facilities, ports, mines, and factories, Turkey and Greece, Ottoman ... More

Part of the tipple at Bessie Mine.  Location: Bessie Mine, Alabama.

Part of the tipple at Bessie Mine. Location: Bessie Mine, Alabama.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Loading a mine car - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Loading a mine car - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Title from jacket. Probably related to negatives D420-2342 to D420-2360. "4" on label. Detroit Publishing Co. no. K 2344. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Tunnel at Juneau Mine - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Tunnel at Juneau Mine - 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.

Boy braking on motor train 10 hrs. a day. Where mining, loading, etc. is done by machinery. Live wire above is sometimes not higher than a man's head.  Location: Gary, West Virginia.

Boy braking on motor train 10 hrs. a day. Where mining, loading, etc. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a miner, coal mine, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

On the tipple at the Bessie Mine, Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. These young boys work around and on these coal cars, loaded and empty, while they are running at full speed. It is dangerous. One of these boys said, "Ain't hardly a day goes by that someone don't get pinched or hurt." "I got my leg jammed a while ago and was laid up a week."  Location: Bessie Mine, Alabama.

On the tipple at the Bessie Mine, Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. The...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Loading a mine car - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Loading a mine car - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Title from jacket. Probably related to negatives D420-2342 to D420-2360. "3" on label. Detroit Publishing Co. no. K 2343. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Miners pushing an "empty" (sides of tunnel show depth of coal vein), coal mine, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Miners pushing an "empty" (sides of tunnel show depth of coal vein), c...

Two miners pushing coal car. H92084 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 13220.

A tipple, Gaston mine. Location: Fairmont, West Virginia

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

Locomotive [Electric mule], Public domain image

Locomotive [Electric mule], Public domain image

Public domain photograph of electric locomotive, electrified railroads, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Interior of salt mine] - Drawing. Public domain image.

[Interior of salt mine] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Empire Coal & Coke Company, tipple and loading booms, Landgraff, West Virginia

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.

Mountain Iron Mine, gelatin silver print

Mountain Iron Mine, gelatin silver print

H21190 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Crandall & Fletcher; August 21, 1902; DLC/PP-1902:41670.

[The Kılınç bridge in Ereğli]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

[The Kılınç bridge in Ereğli]. 19th century, Library of Congress colle...

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

Elk Mountain coal mines - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Elk Mountain coal mines - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

"Detroit Photographic Co." and "137" on negative. Commissioned by Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 01814. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The presidential party descending the 3,000 ft. shaft into the Congress Gold Mine, Phoenix, Arizona.

The presidential party descending the 3,000 ft. shaft into the Congres...

Stereograph showing party traveling with McKinley and Roosevelt seated in mine train and about to descend into mine. H5307 U.S. Copyright Office.

The Mahoning Iron Mine, Hibbing, Minn.

The Mahoning Iron Mine, Hibbing, Minn.

Public domain photograph - panorama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Biwabik Mine, gelatin silver print

The Biwabik Mine, gelatin silver print

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A Tipple.  Location: Clarksburg, West Virginia.

A Tipple. Location: Clarksburg, West Virginia.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sutro tunnel.  Sutro tunnel and mule train.  Adolph Sutro, founder of the Sutro tunnel.  Sutro from the tunnel.  Sutro mansion and machine shop

Sutro tunnel. Sutro tunnel and mule train. Adolph Sutro, founder of ...

Photographed and copyrighted, 1890, by Jas. H. Crockwell, Virginia City, Nevada. Composite of five reproductions of photographic prints. In album: Souvenir of the Comstock, p. 15.

Elk Mountain coal mines - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Elk Mountain coal mines - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hauling coal - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Hauling coal - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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.

[Loading a mine car] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

[Loading a mine car] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mining, coal mine, underground, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A loaded coal train and the gravity incline at a coal mine, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

A loaded coal train and the gravity incline at a coal mine, Pittsburg,...

H92085 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 13221. Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Harley Bruce, a young coupling-boy at tipple of Indian Mountain Line of Proctor Coal Co., near Jellico, Tenn. He appears to be 12 or 14 years old, and says he has been working there about a year. It is hard work and dangerous. Not many young boys employed in or about the mines of this region. Location: Jellico vicinity, Tennessee

Harley Bruce, a young coupling-boy at tipple of Indian Mountain Line o...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1918. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

Hard work and dangerous for such a young boy. James O'Dell, a greaser and coupler on the tipple of the Cross Mountain Mine, Knoxville Iron Co., in the vicinity of Coal Creek, Tenn. James has been there four months. Helps push these heavily loaded cars. Appears to be about 12 or 13 years old. Location: Coal Creek, Tennessee

Hard work and dangerous for such a young boy. James O'Dell, a greaser ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1917. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

[Hauls scraper and loads coal] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

[Hauls scraper and loads coal] - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

Public domain photograph of Middle East, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A Tipple.  Location: Clarksburg, West Virginia.

A Tipple. Location: Clarksburg, West Virginia.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hard work and dangerous for such a young boy. James O'Dell, a greaser and coupler on the tipple of the Cross Mountain Mine, Knoxville Iron Co., in the vicinity of Coal Creek, Tenn. James has been there four months. Helps push these heavily loaded cars. Appears to be about 12 or 13 years old.  Location: Coal Creek, Tennessee.

Hard work and dangerous for such a young boy. James O'Dell, a greaser ...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Part of the tipple at Bessie Mine. Location: Bessie Mine, Alabama

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

On the tipple at the Bessie Mine, Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. These young boys work around and on these coal cars, loaded and empty, while they are running at full speed. It is dangerous. One of these boys said, "Ain't hardly a day goes by that someone don't get pinched or hurt." "I got my leg jammed a while ago and was laid up a week." Location: Bessie Mine, Alabama

On the tipple at the Bessie Mine, Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. The...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1827. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

Interior of salt mine - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Interior of salt mine - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Title from jacket. Probably related to negatives D420-2342 to D420-2360. Detroit Publishing Co. no. K 2347. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Hard work and dangerous for such a young boy. James O'Dell, a greaser and coupler on the tipple of the Cross Mountain Mine, Knoxville Iron Co., in the vicinity of Coal Creek, Tenn. James has been there four months. Helps push these heavily loaded cars. Appears to be about 12 or 13 years old. Location: Coal Creek, Tennessee

Hard work and dangerous for such a young boy. James O'Dell, a greaser ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1917. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

Loaded cars ascending, empties descending at the tipple, coal mine, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A

Loaded cars ascending, empties descending at the tipple, coal mine, Pi...

No. 13222. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Elk Mountain Coal Mines, mammoth plate negative

Elk Mountain Coal Mines, mammoth plate negative

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hauls scraper and loads coal - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Hauls scraper and loads coal - Public domain image. Dry plate negative...

Title from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. nos. 35746, K 3073. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Tipple at Turkey Knob Mine, Macdonald, West Virginia. Bank Boss in centre. Location: MacDonald, West Virginia

Tipple at Turkey Knob Mine, Macdonald, West Virginia. Bank Boss in cen...

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. Location: Clarksburg, West Virginia

A Tipple. Location: Clarksburg, West Virginia

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 179. Card handwritten by a P&P staff member. A replacement card?. Credit line: National Child Labor Committe... More

A coal mine tipple where coal is weighed and loaded into freight cars, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A

A coal mine tipple where coal is weighed and loaded into freight cars,...

No. 13223. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Group of miners in the main tunnel (1 12 miles long) of a huge coal mine, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A

Group of miners in the main tunnel (1 12 miles long) of a huge coal mi...

No. 13216. Public domain photograph of the train tunnel, railroad, train track, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tipple at Turkey Knob Mine, Macdonald, West Virginia. Bank Boss in centre.  Location: MacDonald, West Virginia.

Tipple at Turkey Knob Mine, Macdonald, West Virginia. Bank Boss in cen...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A Tipple. Location: Clarksburg, West Virginia

A Tipple. Location: Clarksburg, West Virginia

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 179. Card handwritten by a P&P staff member. A replacement card?. Credit line: National Child Labor Committe... More

Elk Mountain Coal Mines - Detroit publishing company. Public domain.

Elk Mountain Coal Mines - Detroit publishing company. Public domain.

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

Part of the tipple at Bessie Mine. Location: Bessie Mine, Alabama

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

Cars loaded with crude asbestos, Thetford Mines, Quebec, Canada

Cars loaded with crude asbestos, Thetford Mines, Quebec, Canada

Stereograph shows men standing on railroad tracks with railway cars loaded with asbestos behind them. J284609 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 27335. Copyright by Keystone View Company.

Harley Bruce, a young coupling-boy at tipple of Indian Mountain Line of Proctor Coal Co., near Jellico, Tenn. He appears to be 12 or 14 years old, and says he has been working there about a year. It is hard work and dangerous. Not many young boys employed in or about the mines of this region. Location: Jellico vicinity, Tennessee

Harley Bruce, a young coupling-boy at tipple of Indian Mountain Line o...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1918. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More