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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.'

7. 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.'
Two miners work with a cutting machine at Pursglove No. 15.

8. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine at Pursglove No. 15

IDNO:
003062
Title:
Miners Operating a Cutting Machine at Pursglove No. 15
Date:
1954/01/13
Description:
Two miners work with a cutting machine at Pursglove No. 15.
Miner works with cutting machine at Jamison No. 9 mine.

9. Cutting Machine at Jamison No. 9

IDNO:
003032
Title:
Cutting Machine at Jamison No. 9
Date:
1954/10/05
Description:
Miner works with cutting machine at Jamison No. 9 mine.
Man operating a JMC1 continuous miner.

10. Joy Manufacturing Company Continuous Mining Machine

IDNO:
001914
Title:
Joy Manufacturing Company Continuous Mining Machine
Date:
1957
Description:
Man operating a JMC1 continuous miner.
Mountaineer Coal Company, Division of Consolidation Coal Company.

11. Continuous Mining Machine (Middle) and Loading Machine (Bottom)

IDNO:
002701
Title:
Continuous Mining Machine (Middle) and Loading Machine (Bottom)
Date:
1959/04/07
Description:
Mountaineer Coal Company, Division of Consolidation Coal Company.
Men at work with loading machine and shuttle car. Probably Joy Machinery.

12. Miners Operating a Loading Machine

IDNO:
002211
Title:
Miners Operating a Loading Machine
Date:
undated
Description:
Men at work with loading machine and shuttle car. Probably Joy Machinery.