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13. Miners Loading Coal Into a Hand Loaded Loading Machine

IDNO:
002218
Title:
Miners Loading Coal Into a Hand Loaded Loading Machine
Date:
1951/04/23
Two men sitting on a bench in a mine in an underground mine. Sign reads, 'It is a dischargeable offence to run over any cable.'

14. Miners Seated on Bench in an Underground Mine.

IDNO:
002222
Title:
Miners Seated on Bench in an Underground Mine.
Description:
Two men sitting on a bench in a mine in an underground mine. Sign reads, 'It is a dischargeable offence to run over any cable.'

15. Coal Miner at Work Underground

IDNO:
002228
Title:
Coal Miner at Work Underground
Miners in cars about to go down to the pit. Photograph courtesy of the Farm Security Administration.

16. Man Trip to the Working Face

IDNO:
002564
Title:
Man Trip to the Working Face
Date:
ca. 1939
Description:
Miners in cars about to go down to the pit. Photograph courtesy of the Farm Security Administration.
A miner operates a cart full of coal exiting the mine.

17. Coal Cars Exiting a Mine

IDNO:
002581
Title:
Coal Cars Exiting a Mine
Description:
A miner operates a cart full of coal exiting the mine.
'West Virginia coal miners entering 'the bowels of the earth' to produce fuel for the defense of the Nation. The State supplies more than a quarter of the Nation's total production of coal.' Courtesy of W. Va. Dept of Labor.

18. Coal Miners Entering Mine, 'The Man Trip'

IDNO:
002585
Title:
Coal Miners Entering Mine, 'The Man Trip'
Description:
'West Virginia coal miners entering 'the bowels of the earth' to produce fuel for the defense of the Nation. The State supplies more than a quarter of the Nation's total production of coal.' Courtesy of W. Va. Dept of Labor.
Miners and filled coal cars inside a mine.

19. Interior of a Coal Mine

IDNO:
002625
Title:
Interior of a Coal Mine
Description:
Miners and filled coal cars inside a mine.
Miners talking while others run drilling equipment.

20. Miners and Equipment Inside a Coal Mine

IDNO:
002626
Title:
Miners and Equipment Inside a Coal Mine
Description:
Miners talking while others run drilling equipment.
Miner works on pile of shot down coal.

21. Shot Down Coal at Jamison Coal Mine No. 9

IDNO:
002647
Title:
Shot Down Coal at Jamison Coal Mine No. 9
Description:
Miner works on pile of shot down coal.
'This miner has just completed loading a mine car of weighing net about two and one-half tons, and is waiting for a locomotive to come along and take it out and give him another empty car. An industrious miner will load about six and sometimes eight of these cars in one day. This is a wooden mine car that is now being rapidly replaced by steel mine car equipment. The number of post shown in this picture indicate again the immense amount of timber required to conduct operations in a safe manner.'

22. Loaded Mine Car

IDNO:
002653
Title:
Loaded Mine Car
Description:
'This miner has just completed loading a mine car of weighing net about two and one-half tons, and is waiting for a locomotive to come along and take it out and give him another empty car. An industrious miner will load about six and sometimes eight of these cars in one day. This is a wooden mine car that is now being rapidly replaced by steel mine car equipment. The number of post shown in this picture indicate again the immense amount of timber required to conduct operations in a safe manner.'
'Note the wooden mine car. It is of the Barnestown shaft which was the first shaft, of 100 feet in depth, in the valley.'

23. Miners at Work

IDNO:
002656
Title:
Miners at Work
Description:
'Note the wooden mine car. It is of the Barnestown shaft which was the first shaft, of 100 feet in depth, in the valley.'

24. Miner Testing for Gas in Jamison No. 9 Mine

IDNO:
002658
Title:
Miner Testing for Gas in Jamison No. 9 Mine
Date:
1954/10/05