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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.

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.'
This picture shows the thickness of the coal seam in relation to a normal doorway.

2. Thickness of Coal Seam at Long Branch No. 1

IDNO:
002132
Title:
Thickness of Coal Seam at Long Branch No. 1
Date:
1947/09/26
Description:
This picture shows the thickness of the coal seam in relation to a normal doorway.
Coal conveyor systems run throughout the hillside.

3. Raw Coal Conveyor System

IDNO:
002180
Title:
Raw Coal Conveyor System
Description:
Coal conveyor systems run throughout the hillside.
A miner moves a fully loaded shuttle car down the mine shaft.

4. Loaded Coal Shuttle Car

IDNO:
002190
Title:
Loaded Coal Shuttle Car
Description:
A miner moves a fully loaded shuttle car down the mine shaft.
Two miners digging coal in mine.

5. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

IDNO:
002138
Title:
Miners Operating a Cutting Machine
Description:
Two miners digging coal in mine.
Two miners take samples of coal.

6. Miners Taking Samples of Coal

IDNO:
002154
Title:
Miners Taking Samples of Coal
Description:
Two miners take samples of coal.