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1. Miners Operating a Loading Machine

IDNO:
002221
Title:
Miners Operating a Loading Machine
Date:
1947/07
Two men placing charges in an already drilled hole. Notice the preparatory cut on upper right hand side.

2. Miners Placing Charges

IDNO:
002147
Title:
Miners Placing Charges
Date:
1947/07
Description:
Two men placing charges in an already drilled hole. Notice the preparatory cut on upper right hand side.
Two men operating a loading machine.

3. Loading Machine in Action at Mine No. 32

IDNO:
002200
Title:
Loading Machine in Action at Mine No. 32
Date:
1947/07
Description:
Two men operating a loading machine.
Miners leaving roofed man trip car at shifts end.

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

IDNO:
002198
Title:
Miners Leaving Roofed Man-Trip Car At Shift's End, Consolidation Coal Company, Mine No. 32
Date:
1948/08
Description:
Miners leaving roofed man trip car at shifts end.
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.'

5. 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.'

6. Miners Loading Coal Into a Hand Loaded Loading Machine

IDNO:
002218
Title:
Miners Loading Coal Into a Hand Loaded Loading Machine
Date:
1951/04/23
Two men working on the loading machine.

7. Coal Loading Machine in Operation at Jamison Mine No. 9

IDNO:
002149
Title:
Coal Loading Machine in Operation at Jamison Mine No. 9
Date:
1954/10/05
Description:
Two men working on the loading machine.
Two men running a roof bolter in Jamison No. 9 mine.

8. Miner Roof Bolting at Jamison No. 9 Mine

IDNO:
002220
Title:
Miner Roof Bolting at Jamison No. 9 Mine
Date:
1954/10/05
Description:
Two men running a roof bolter in Jamison No. 9 mine.
Two men with equipment putting up bolts to support the mine roof.

9. Miner Roof Bolting

IDNO:
002112
Title:
Miner Roof Bolting
Date:
1957/04/18
Description:
Two men with equipment putting up bolts to support the mine roof.
Two men stand beside rail cars. A cart a motor sits in front of them.

10. Miners Stand by Steel Mine Railway Cars

IDNO:
002194
Title:
Miners Stand by Steel Mine Railway Cars
Date:
1957/04/18
Description:
Two men stand beside rail cars. A cart a motor sits in front of them.
Front Row 'Left to Right'; N.T. Berry, North Western-Hanna, R.C. Larsen,North Western-Hanna, J.J. Larsen, North Western-Hanna. Back Row 'Left to Right'; Robert O'Conner, North Western-Hanna, J.E. Fier, North Western-Hanna, G.M. Allis, North Western-Hanna, M.L. Zhan, North Western-Hanna, Alfred Christopherson, North Western-Hanna, Harry Turner, Superintendent, Loveridge Mine.

11. Employees of the Loveridge Mine

IDNO:
002227
Title:
Employees of the Loveridge Mine
Date:
1960/08/25
Description:
Front Row 'Left to Right'; N.T. Berry, North Western-Hanna, R.C. Larsen,North Western-Hanna, J.J. Larsen, North Western-Hanna. Back Row 'Left to Right'; Robert O'Conner, North Western-Hanna, J.E. Fier, North Western-Hanna, G.M. Allis, North Western-Hanna, M.L. Zhan, North Western-Hanna, Alfred Christopherson, North Western-Hanna, Harry Turner, Superintendent, Loveridge Mine.

12. Miner Walking on Tracks Between Coal Cars

IDNO:
004565
Title:
Miner Walking on Tracks Between Coal Cars
Date:
ca. 1950-1960
Men at work with loading machine and shuttle car. Probably Joy Machinery.

13. 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.
Close-up view of roof drill in action. Man in background is tightening bolt with air powered wrench at Consol. No. 204, Jenkins, Ky.

14. Miners Roof Bolting at Consol No. 204, Jenkins, Ky.

IDNO:
002223
Title:
Miners Roof Bolting at Consol No. 204, Jenkins, Ky.
Description:
Close-up view of roof drill in action. Man in background is tightening bolt with air powered wrench at Consol. No. 204, Jenkins, Ky.
Two men cutting coal in the parting.

15. Cutting Coal with Cavalier

IDNO:
002206
Title:
Cutting Coal with Cavalier
Description:
Two men cutting coal in the parting.
A coal cutter with nine foot cutting blade at work in Consol. Coal Co. Mine No. 32, Owings, W. Va.

16. Cutting Machine in Operation at Mine No. 32

IDNO:
002224
Title:
Cutting Machine in Operation at Mine No. 32
Description:
A coal cutter with nine foot cutting blade at work in Consol. Coal Co. Mine No. 32, Owings, W. Va.
Two miners operate a track mounted coal cutting machine.

17. Track Mounted Cutting Machine

IDNO:
002195
Title:
Track Mounted Cutting Machine
Description:
Two miners operate a track mounted coal cutting machine.
Two miners take samples of coal.

18. Miners Taking Samples of Coal

IDNO:
002154
Title:
Miners Taking Samples of Coal
Description:
Two miners take samples of coal.
Man walking on a train track beside two other tracks with coal cars on them.

19. Miner Walking Along Tracks Next to Coal Carts

IDNO:
004552
Title:
Miner Walking Along Tracks Next to Coal Carts
Description:
Man walking on a train track beside two other tracks with coal cars on them.
A miner empties his shuttle car.

20. Shuttle Car Discharging Coal

IDNO:
002193
Title:
Shuttle Car Discharging Coal
Description:
A miner empties his shuttle car.
Miners gathered in a typical Consol locker room with a modern bath house adjacent to it.

21. Typical Consol Locker Room

IDNO:
002150
Title:
Typical Consol Locker Room
Description:
Miners gathered in a typical Consol locker room with a modern bath house adjacent to it.

22. Miner Operates a Coal Cutting Machine Prior to Blasting

IDNO:
002177
Title:
Miner Operates a Coal Cutting Machine Prior to Blasting
Miner on a small, track mounted, cutting machine.

23. Miner Operating a Small, Track Mounted, Cutting Machine

IDNO:
002209
Title:
Miner Operating a Small, Track Mounted, Cutting Machine
Description:
Miner on a small, track mounted, cutting machine.
'This miner has just completed loading a mine oar of coal weighing net about two and one-half tons, and is waiting for a locomotive to come along and take it out and give him another empty oar. An industrious miner will load about six and sometimes eight of these oars in one day. This is a wooden mine car that is now being rapidly replaced by steel mine car equipment. The number of posts shown in this picture indi- again [sic] the immense amount of timber required to conduct operations in a safe manner.'

24. Miner and Loaded Mine Car

IDNO:
004544
Title:
Miner and Loaded Mine Car
Description:
'This miner has just completed loading a mine oar of coal weighing net about two and one-half tons, and is waiting for a locomotive to come along and take it out and give him another empty oar. An industrious miner will load about six and sometimes eight of these oars in one day. This is a wooden mine car that is now being rapidly replaced by steel mine car equipment. The number of posts shown in this picture indi- again [sic] the immense amount of timber required to conduct operations in a safe manner.'