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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.'

1. 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.'

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

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