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Dispatcher in office outside of mine. 'Credit must be given to William Vandivert, and picture is not to be reproduced without written license.'

1. Dispatcher at Mine No. 32

Two miners standing next to drilling machine.

2. Miners Operating a Drilling Machine at Consolidation Coal Mine No. 32

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.'

3. Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 32, Fairmont, W. Va.

A very large cutting machine being operated by a miner. 'Credit must be given to William Vandivert, Not to be reproduced without written liscense.

4. Cutting Machine in Operation at Mine No. 32

Tipple and preparation plant at Mine No. 32, Fairmont, W. Va.

5. Tipple at Old Consolidation Coal Coal Mine No. 32, Fairmont, W. Va.

Two men operating a loading machine.

6. Loading Machine in Action at Mine No. 32

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.'

7. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine at Mine No. 32, Consolidation Coal Company, Owings, W. Va.

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.'

8. Shuttle Car at Mine No. 32, Consolidation Coal Company, at Owings, W. Va.

Preparation plant with cars parked outside.

9. Mine No. 32 Preparation Plant, Fairmont, W. Va.

Electric Locomotive No. 15 pulling coal through yard at Consol Mine No. 32 in W. Va. Bituminous Coal Institute, Aug, 1948, 320 Southern Bldg., Washington 5, D.C.

10. Miner in Electric Locomotive No. 15 Hauling Coal Carts through Consolidation Coal Company W. Va. Mine Yard

Tipple at the Consolidation Coal Co. Mine No. 32, Preparation Plant, Owings, W. Va.

11. Tipple and Preparation Plant, Consolidation Coal Company W. Va., Mine No. 32, Owings, W. Va.

Consol. Coal Co. Fairmont Mine No. 32 Tipple and Preparation Plant at Owings, W. Va.

12. Mine No. 32 Tipple, Owings, W. Va.

Picture of a man driving the No. 15 electric differential locomotive of the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company, at Mine No. 32, W. Va.

13. Miner Driving Electric Differential Locomotive No. 15 at Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 32

Scenic view of Consolidated Coal Company's Mine No. 32.

14. Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 32, Fairmont, W. Va.

Train engine and filled coal cars outside of the preparation plant at Mine No. 32, Fairmont, W. Va.

15. Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 32, Fairmont, W. Va.

Scenic view of Mine No. 32 at Fairmont, W. Va.

16. Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 32, Fairmont, W. Va.