Pittsburgh Coal Co. of Wisconsin, Docks #7, Duluth Minnesota
Date:
1942
Description:
Consolidated elevators in foreground; Docks #1, Pgh Coal Co. 'abandoned'; Docks #7 'used section'; Docks #7 'abandoned section'; Consolidated Elevators; Cleveland Cliffs Coal Docks; Capitol Elevators; North Western Fuel Co. Coal Docks #4 'Consolidated Coal Co.'; Occident Elevators; Planey Elevators; Long strip of land is Minnesota and Wisconsin Points separating the harbor from Lake Superior. Photographed in fall 1942.
Caption on back reads, 'Shinnston, West Virginia (Jan. 00, 1945...Joe Akers, 32 year old bituminous coal miner, and 400,000 fellow miners in America's bituminous coal industry, are World's most prosperous coal miners. (See lead off story for additional data.) Photo shows: Joe Akers' house. He bought it in 1943 for $5000. There is plenty of ground-100'x 110' and he has a nice vegetable garden in the back. Attached to this garage is a warm water shower where he washes up after work. The house is located on one of the principle streets of Shinnston and the mine is at Owings, only 6 miles away. The house has two downstairs bedrooms and two small bedrooms and bath upstairs. Joe's car is a 1940 model. From Hamilton Wright Org For: Bituminous Coal Industry Photo Gratis'
Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 32, Fairmont, W. Va.
Date:
1947/07
Description:
Scenic view of buildings and houses at Mine No. 32, Fairmont, W. Va. 'Credit must be given. Not to be reproduced without written liscense from William Vandivert.'
Coal Cars Entering the Consolidation Coal Company Preparation Plant, Fairmont, W. Va.
Date:
1947/07
Description:
Full loads of coal in train cars in front of the C.C.C. Preparation Plant in Fairmont, W. Va. Credit must be given to William Vandivert, 21 East Tenth St., New York 3, N.Y.
Two miners operate a cutting machine. 'Credit must be given to Willaim Vandivert, 21 East Tenth St., New York 3, N.Y., Not to be reproduced without written liscense.'
'Background: Back and side walls are covered with flag blue no seam matting edged with red, white and blue braided silk. Floor is covered with red crystalline cloth and draped over a partial platform in the rear of the window. Display: In the center of the back wall is a map of the United States raised a bit from the wall to make it stand out. All around this map are photographs of 50 Governors, 47 from the States and 3 from the Territories and under these photos are the names and states of all the Governors. Some are place on the platform on the floor in the back with the Chairman of the Conference at one end and the Host at the other. A welcome banner is placed in front behind which is a stand containing a small state flag for each of the 48 states and 4 territories. Remarks: This window is our best so far I believe, from the standpoint of attracting attention and being talked about. The coloring at night is particularly attractive with the two spot lights bringing out the colors quite vividly. We have had many residents call in and stop in to remark on the window and there have been as many as 25 people at one time looking at it out front. It has proven timely for two events, the Governors Conference and the Republican Convention in Philadelphia this week. The majority of the Governors as well as their parties also stopped by to see our display.'
Safety-Fenced Mine Car Unloading Yard and Personnel Overpass, Consolidation Coal Company, Fairmont, W. Va.
Date:
1948/08
Description:
Vandivert No. 32 J-33, 5-9. August 1948. View of safety-fenced mine car unloading yard and personnel overpass, Consolidation Coal Company, Fairmont, W. Va. Bituminous Coal Institute. Feb 1950. 320 Southern BLDG, Washington 5, D.C.
'Gardener cultivating flower bed on lawn in front of preparation plant, Mine No. 98, Consolidation Coal Co., W. Va.' Bituminous Coal Institute, 320 Southern Building, Washington 5, D.C. November 1948.
A crowd gathers around a Disco Fuel exhibit, to watch the snoring, mumbling man. The Snoring, Mumbling Man Attracted and Held the Attention of Thousands Each Day of the Fair.
About 15,000 guessed at number of pieces of Disco in transparent barrel. The number of pieces was changed each day of the Fair. One day two people guessed the exact number and both won $100.00 worth of Disco. Participants were limited to Solid Fuel users only.
Miners Operating a Cutting Machine at Mine No. 32, Consolidation Coal Company, Owings, W. Va.
Date:
1950/10
Description:
Caption on back reads, 'Making a cut in the coal face is this Mastodon of the machine age - an underground cutter. Rubber tired for mobility, and mounting a 9-foot cutting blade armed with whirring steel bits, it can cut a full 360 degree arc. This and similar machines give America's bituminous coal mines almost unlimited capacity for production.'
Shuttle Car at Mine No. 32, Consolidation Coal Company, at Owings, W. Va.
Date:
1950/10
Description:
Miner driving a shuttle car. 'Shuttle car, fully loaded, rumbles around a curve on its way to the loading terminal where it will unload into mine cars. Such mechanized equipment has a unit cost of about $20,000. Mine No. 32, Consolidation Coal Co., Owings, W. Va.'
Double Decker Drill in Operation at Georgetown Mine, Georgetown, Ohio, Hanna Coal Company
Date:
1950/10
Description:
Caption on back reads, 'Stiff-arming a highwall is the job of this new, double-decker drill in operation at the Georgetown mine, Hanna Coal Co., at Georgetown, Ohio. Fruit of the ingenuity of coal mining engineers, the drill makes two blast holes at different levels in the highwall, permitting a blasting shot that brings down a large section of 'overburden.' The 'overburden,' rock, shale, limestone, clay and other mineral deposits, lies above the coal seam. Surface, or open-pit mining, accounts for 23 percent of total bituminous production. The Georgetown mine is the largest surface mine in the world.'
Night photo of a road sign advertising Disco coal as well as telling how many miles to the plant. Black light flashes on and off. Sign is on the N/S Rt. U.S. 30 East 800' West of End of West Boung Ramp, Huntington Twp.
Night photo of a road sign advertising Disco coal as well as telling how many miles to the plant. Daytime effect between flashes. Sign is on the N/S Rt. U.S. 30 East 800' West of End of West Boung Ramp, Huntington Twp.
Link-Belt Rotary Mine Car Dumper, Pocahontas Fuel Company, Itmann, W. Va.
Date:
1951/11
Description:
'Link-Belt 33460, Link-Belt rotary mine car dumper at Heavy-Media coal preparation plant of Pocahontas Fuel Co. Inc., Itmann, W. Va. Capacity of plant is 750 tons of raw coal per hour. Nov. 1951'
Coke Battery, U.S. Steel's National Tube Division, Lorain, Ohio
Date:
1952/09
Description:
Caption on back reads 'Coke Ovens, Steam rises from the quenching tower of the new by-product coke battery at the Lorain, Ohio, works of U.S. Steel's National Tube Division. Coke production has been doubled with the instalation of three new batteries of 59 ovens each. Other improvements at Lorain include enlargment and installation of coal and coke handling facilities, numerous changes in the equipment for recovery of coal chemicals, and a coal and coke laboratory. Photo from U.S. Steel Corp., and copy negative September 1952.'
This picture was taken at the Evans Coal and Supply Co. on September 23, 1952 during on of the Disco Combustion School Classes. From Left To Right: Row 1: Andrew Basista, Basista Coal Co.; Thomas M. Cooksey Jr., Stevinson Coal Division of the Cooksey Coal Co.; Thomas M. Cooksey Sr., Cooksey Coal Co.; Carl Dunning, Brandon Coal Service Inc.; George Basista, Basista Coal Co.; Halter Shoak, Southern Coal Co.; Row 2: Robert Palmer, Palmer Fuel Co.; Gene J. Garde, Garde Coal Co.; Leo W. Dunning Sr., Secretary and Treasurer of Mahoning Coal Council and Mgr. of Coal Heating Service; Noah B. Hendson, Boardman Supply Co., Inc.; Carl L. Olson, J. R. Oldon Coal Co Inc.; Row 3: Bill Burns Pittsburgh Consolidated Coal Co.; Jack M. MacLachlan, Pittsburgh Consolidated Coal Co.; Tom Percie, Pittsburgh Consolidated Coal Co.; G.P. Stewart Jr., Pittsburgh Consolidated Coal Co.; J.S. Murray, Pittsburgh Consolidated Coal Co.; E.L. Yeller, Pittsburgh Consolidated Coal Co.
Drawing of Consolidation Coal Company's Williams Mine Facility
Date:
1953
Description:
Drawing of Consolidation Coal Co.'s Williams Mine in W. Va. Photo copy print done by George E. Koehler, Inc., 612 Wood Street. Neg. No. 23459. GR. 1-5742.
The National Mine Service Company granted an exclusive world-wide license to manufacture and sell a new type of shuttle car developed and patented by Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company. The shuttle car was designed by Arthur L. Lee and his engineering staff of Pitt-Consol.