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An interior view of a typical mine prior to introduction of modern mechanical machines and loaders.  Coal miners used picks and shovels to remove the "black gold" from beneath the West Virginia hills.

1. Early West Virginia Coal Mine

2. Coal Miner at Work in Rosedale Coal Company

3. Coal Miners at Work in Rosedale Coal Company

4. Coal Miners in the Mine at Rosedale Coal Company

"This is a shaker conveyor minus the duckbill, with a 90 degree turn at the face of a 55 foot room. The loaders are seen shoveling coal into the shaker."

5. Hand Loading Shaker Conveyor, Island Creek Coal Company

"Six ton motor and mine cars loaded with man trip for second shift."

6. Mine Workers Posed with Cars, Island Creek Coal Company

7. Substation, Bath and Lamp Houses, Island Creek Coal Company

"Looking west on tramroad showing mine cars loaded with coal, head house, conveyor line, railroad tipple, river tipple and Kanawha River."

8. View of Tramroad Looking West, Island Creek Coal Company

9. Conveyor Line to River Tipple, Coal Barges and Kanawha River, Island Creek Coal Company

"Loading booms, lowered to level of track. The coal drops between the rails to a hopper below from which point a conveyor carries the coal to the river tipple and barges."

10. Loading Booms, Island Creek Coal Company

Old cars parked in front of a store front.

11. Store, Commissary, Office and Doctor's Office, Island Creek Coal Company

12. Coal Cars beside Railroad Tracks, Island Creek Coal Company