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Two men with equipment putting up bolts to support the mine roof.

1. Miner Roof Bolting

Two miners digging coal in mine.

2. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

Two men placing charges in an already drilled hole. Notice the preparatory cut on upper right hand side.

3. Miners Placing Charges

Miners gathered in a typical Consol locker room with a modern bath house adjacent to it.

4. Typical Consol Locker Room

5. Miner Operating a Coal Loading Machine

Two miners take samples of coal.

6. Miners Taking Samples of Coal

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

8. Miner Marking a Coal Seam

9. Miners Operating a Loading Machine in Jamison No. 9 Mine

Two men working with a rubber tire mounted cutting machine.

10. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

11. Miner Operates a Coal Cutting Machine Prior to Blasting

12. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

Two miners cut coal at Pursglove No. 15

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

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.'

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

A miner operates an electric shuttle car in the mine.

15. Miner Operating an Electric Shuttle Car

Coal miner's shower room.

16. Miner's Showers, Hanna Coal Company

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

17. Loaded Coal Shuttle Car

A miner empties his shuttle car.

18. Shuttle Car Discharging Coal

Two men stand beside rail cars.  A cart a motor sits in  front of them.

19. Miners Stand by Steel Mine Railway Cars

Two miners operate a track mounted coal cutting machine.

20. Track Mounted Cutting Machine

Two miners operate the breast type coal cutting machine.

21. Breast Type Coal Cutting Machine, Consol Mine No. 26, Watson, W. Va.

Miners leaving roofed man trip car at shifts end.

22. Miners Leaving Roofed Man-Trip Car At Shift's End, Consolidation Coal Company, Mine No. 32

Two men operating a loading machine.

23. Loading Machine in Action at Mine No. 32

24. Joy Manufacturing Company Continuous Mining Machine