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A continuous mining machine operating in a four foot seam.

1. Continuous Mining Machine in Operation in a Four Foot Seam

IDNO:
002111
Title:
Continuous Mining Machine in Operation in a Four Foot Seam
Description:
A continuous mining machine operating in a four foot seam.
Continuous miner in action.

2. Lee Norse CM28E Continuous Miner

IDNO:
002121
Title:
Lee Norse CM28E Continuous Miner
Description:
Continuous miner in action.
Two men using large bits to drill prior to placing charges.

3. Drilling Prior to Placing Charges

IDNO:
002136
Title:
Drilling Prior to Placing Charges
Description:
Two men using large bits to drill prior to placing charges.

4. Coal Loading Machine

IDNO:
002141
Title:
Coal Loading Machine

5. Coal on Conveyor

IDNO:
002151
Title:
Coal on Conveyor

6. Miner Operating a Coal Loading Machine

IDNO:
002152
Title:
Miner Operating a Coal Loading Machine

7. Making a Cut in Coal Face Prior to 'Shooting Down' Coal

IDNO:
002156
Title:
Making a Cut in Coal Face Prior to 'Shooting Down' Coal
Two men working with a rubber tire mounted cutting machine.

8. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

IDNO:
002165
Title:
Miners Operating a Cutting Machine
Description:
Two men working with a rubber tire mounted cutting machine.

9. Miner Operates a Coal Cutting Machine Prior to Blasting

IDNO:
002177
Title:
Miner Operates a Coal Cutting Machine Prior to Blasting

10. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

IDNO:
002178
Title:
Miners Operating a Cutting Machine
Two miners cut coal at Pursglove No. 15

11. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine in Pursglove No. 15 Mine

IDNO:
002179
Title:
Miners Operating a Cutting Machine in Pursglove No. 15 Mine
Description:
Two miners cut coal at Pursglove No. 15
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.'

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

IDNO:
002181
Title:
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.'