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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.'
A miner moves a fully loaded shuttle car down the mine shaft.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Miners Taking Samples of Coal

IDNO:
002154
Title:
Miners Taking Samples of Coal
Description:
Two miners take samples of coal.
A miner empties his shuttle car.

5. Shuttle Car Discharging Coal

IDNO:
002193
Title:
Shuttle Car Discharging Coal
Description:
A miner empties his shuttle car.

6. Miner Operates a Coal Cutting Machine Prior to Blasting

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

7. Miner Marking a Coal Seam

IDNO:
002158
Title:
Miner Marking a Coal Seam
Two miners cut coal at Pursglove No. 15

8. 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

9. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

IDNO:
002178
Title:
Miners Operating a Cutting Machine
Two men sitting on a bench in a mine in an underground mine. Sign reads, 'It is a dischargeable offence to run over any cable.'

10. Miners Seated on Bench in an Underground Mine.

IDNO:
002222
Title:
Miners Seated on Bench in an Underground Mine.
Description:
Two men sitting on a bench in a mine in an underground mine. Sign reads, 'It is a dischargeable offence to run over any cable.'
A miner operates an electric shuttle car in the mine.

11. Miner Operating an Electric Shuttle Car

IDNO:
002184
Title:
Miner Operating an Electric Shuttle Car
Description:
A miner operates an electric shuttle car in the mine.

12. Coal Miner at Work Underground

IDNO:
002228
Title:
Coal Miner at Work Underground