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1. Transporting Lumber for Shoring in a Coal Mine

2. Miner Operating a Coal Cutting Machine

Two miners operate a cutting machine. 'Credit must be given to Willaim Vandivert, 21 East Tenth St., New York 3, N.Y., Not to be reproduced without written liscense.'

3. Cutting Machine in Operation

Two miners at work drilling into a wall of coal. John Williams, Coal Life Project.

4. Miners at Work

5. Miner Testing for Gas

Three miners hard at work as coal comes down a conveyor.  Copyright Photo by William Vandivert, 21 East Tenth Street, New York 3, N. Y.

6. Mining Coal

'Interior mine scene shows men using the lard oil miner's lamp and the use of horses as well as mules. New England Mine.'

7. Interior of New England Mine

Group portrait of miners and horses inside a mine. 'Dr. Parkinson said a copy of this picture appeared in Natural Geographic's Pictorical Study of Appalachia.'

8. Miners and Their Horses

A miner operating an electric shuttle car filled with coal.

9. Electric Shuttle Car

'A very small cutting machine or a v.m. drilling machine. Probably a cutting machine'

10. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

Chalk markings designate slate intrusion in No. 63.

11. Slate Intrusion at No. 63

A miner is operating a cutting machine at the Price Hill Colliery Co. mine

12. Miner Operating a Cutting Machine, Price Hill Colliery Company

Two miners working to support the roof in the Itmann Coal Co. mine. <br /><br />

13. Miners at Work in an Itmann Coal Company Mine

Miner drilling holes for explosives at Jamison No. 9.

14. Drilling Prior to 'Setting' Explosives at Jamison No. 9

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

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

'This very coarse lumpy mine run coal is the result of proper shooting. The miner is paid on a tonnage basis for loading this coal into mine cars. He is required to watch his coal carefully as he loads it and see that no impurities become mixed with the coal.'

16. Miner Prepares to Load Coal After Shooting

Miners drill two or more holes into coal to place the explosive charges.

17. Drilling Prior to Setting Explosives

Miner drilling a hole for explosives at the Bishop Mine, Pocahontas Fuel Co.

18. Drilling Prior to Placing Explosives at Bishop Mine, Pocahontas Fuel Company

Two dogs harnessed to coal carts. About 1890, Ohio Coal Mine. This photograph is the property of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co.

19. Dogs in Harness, Ohio Coal Mine

'Machine, helper and crew. 350 tons a day, per 8 hour shift.'

20. Continuous Mining Machine, Helper and Crew

'Shuttle Cars: Here are pictured loaded and empty shuttle cars sometimes called buggies. Note the noveyor on the bottom of the empty car for unloading the coal at a central loading station, into the mine cars. This equipment is propelled by huge batteries or electric cable and of course requires no track. Track-mounted mechanical loaders load directly into the mine car.'

21. Miners Operating Shuttle Cars

Miner with drilling machine at Jamison No. 9.

22. Drilling Machine at Jamison No. 9

'All White Oak mines work the same seam of coal, viz: Sewall...The face of one of the working places or rooms is shown in this picture. The coal averages about 48 to 50 inches in thickness. This working place is now ready to be cut by the undercutting machine, so it can be shot down by the miner and loaded into the cars for transportations to the tipple. The white line on the roof in this picture is the center line of the room set by the engineers to guide the men operating the mining machine in driving the room straight.'

23. Sewall Coal Seam Worked by the New River Coal Company

An 11BU loading machine and a Joy Shuttle car at Jamison No. 9.  Stonega Coke and Coal.

24. Loading Machine and Shuttle Car at Jamison No. 9