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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.

2. Miner Operates a Coal Cutting Machine Prior to Blasting

Two miners cut coal at Pursglove No. 15

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

4. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

5. Coal on Conveyor