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Miner shoveling coal as it pours into a coal car.

1. Loading Coal Cars

Tipple filling coal car with large pieces of coal.

2. Loaded Coal Car

3. Miner Walking on Tracks Between Coal Cars

Chesapeake and Ohio coal cars full of coal.

4. Loaded Coal Cars at Summerlee or Cranberry

Many coal cars loaded at the Summerlee Mine.

5. Coal Cars at Summerlee Coal Tipple

Two men walking away from either Cranberry or Summerlee tipple loading coal cars.

6. Coal Tipple

Coal cars coming away from tipple.

7. Sumerlee Coal Tipple

Coal cars going under tipple, Cranberry or Summerlee Mine.

8. Coal Tipple

Tipple on a hillside, possibly Cranberry or Summerlee.

9. Coal Tipple

Large trainline of coal cars. New River Co., Mt. Hope, W.Va., Summerlee Mine.  Summerlee, W.Va.  'C.H. Sprague + Son, 10 Post Office Square, Boston, Mass.'

10. Loaded Cars at the Summerlee Coal Tipple

Coal cars on train tracks.

11. Loaded Coal Cars

Kanawha Coal Co. tipple loading Chesapeake and Ohio coal cars.

12. Tipple of Kanawha Coal Company

Coal cars being loaded under a tipple.

13. Summerlee Tipple, Fayette County, W. Va.

Snow covered coal tipple station. Possibly at Summerlee?

14. Coal Tipple

Skelton Mine tipple loading coal cars.

15. Skelton Mine Tipple

Man walking on a train track beside two other tracks with coal cars on them.

16. Miner Walking Along Tracks Next to Coal Carts

Men carrying cans along track with coal cars.

17. Miner Walking Past Loaded Coal Cars

Coal loading area.  Cars going under a tipple.

18. Summerlee Coal Mine Facilities

19. Miner Inspecting Coal Cars Exiting the Mine

Tipple loading coal mining cars are shown.

20. Coal Mine Tipple

Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad cars below the Summerlee tipple. "This picture shows a days run of coal below Summerlee Tipple just before being moved by the railroad crews.  Three cars of stove size, four cars of lump, four cars of egg and eleven cars of slack constitute the loading for the day.  Note how the cars are trimmed!  What a neat appearance they present!  Even the cars of slack are evenly loaded and trimmed.  Careful inspection and frequent supervision accounts for results like the camera shows.  Every attention is paid to the preparation and marketing of "White Oak" coal.  No detail is too small to receive our most careful attention.  Conditions shown here prevail at all the White Oak Mines.  Each and every mine is carefully inspected as loaded by an experienced and competent inspector; all impurities removed and the car fully loaded and properly trimmed just as you see them in this picture."

21. Loading White Oak Coal at the Summerlee Tipple

Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad cars below the Summerlee tipple. 'This picture shows a days run of coal below Summerlee Tipple just before being moved by the railroad crews.  Three cars of stove size, four cars of lump, four cars of egg and eleven cars of slack constitute the loading for the day.  Note how the cars are trimmed!  What a neat appearance they present!  Even the cars of slack are evenly loaded and trimmed.  Careful inspection and frequent supervision accounts for results like the camera shows.  Every attention is paid to the preparation and marketing of "White Oak" coal.  No detail is too small to receive our most careful attention.  Conditions shown here prevail at all the White Oak Mines.  Each and every mine is carefully inspected as loaded by an experienced and competent inspector; all impurities removed and the car fully loaded and properly trimmed just as you see them in this picture.'

22. Loading White Oak Coal at the Summerlee Tipple

Chesapeake Coal Car getting loaded off of coal ramp.

23. Loading Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars

'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

Taken at Cranberry mine, Chesapeake and Ohio Coal cars being filled under a tipple.

25. Loading Coal Cars at the Cranberry Mine Tipple

Chessapeake and Ohio train cars full of coal.

26. Coal Cars at Summerlee or Cranberry, W. Va.

27. Coal Miner at Work Underground

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.

28. Employees of the Loveridge Mine

Men sitting down on benches with mine diagrams on the walls. Joe Akers is on the right.

29. Miners in a Mine Office

A coal cutter with nine foot cutting blade at work in Consol. Coal Co. Mine No. 32, Owings, W. Va.

30. Cutting Machine in Operation at Mine No. 32

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

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

Two men sitting on a bench in a mine in an underground mine.  Sign reads, 'It is a dischargeable offence to run over any cable.'

32. Miners Seated on Bench in an Underground Mine.

33. Miners Operating a Loading Machine

Two men running a roof bolter in Jamison No. 9 mine.

34. Miner Roof Bolting at Jamison No. 9 Mine

35. Visitors and Workers Standing in the Shovel of the Tiger

36. Miners Loading Coal Into a Hand Loaded Loading Machine

A man and woman standing next to a crawler track.

37. Visitors Pose with Hanna Coal Company's Mountaineer Shovel

38. Visitors Pose with Hanna Coal Company's Mountaineer Shovel

Five men standing in the Mountaineer Scoop.

39. Tour of Hanna Coal Company Mine Site, Cadiz, Ohio

Group portrait of children standing in front of the large shovel 'The Mountaineer'.

40. Youngsters in front of the Mountaineer Shovel

Men at work with loading machine and shuttle car. Probably Joy Machinery.

41. Miners Operating a Loading Machine

Miners at work with loading machine and shuttle car.

42. Miner Operating a Loading Machine

Miner on a small, track mounted, cutting machine.

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

A miner operating a coal cutting machine.

44. Coal Miner at Work

45. Cutting Coal Preparatory to Shooting It Down for Loading

Two men cutting coal in the parting.

46. Cutting Coal with Cavalier

47. Block of Coal

Man cutting coal in Consol. Coal Co. Mine in Kentucky. Note the roof supports using jacks.

48. Miner Cutting Coal in Consol Mine in Kentucky

A New York Central System train moves along the track hauling many cars of coal.

49. Bituminous Coal From Western Pennsylvania Enroute to Market

50. Joy Manufacturing Company Continuous Mining Machine

Men work with core drilling equipment on a hillside.

51. Core Drilling

Two men operating a loading machine.

52. Loading Machine in Action at Mine No. 32

Caption on back reads, 'Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company, the largest operationg coal company in the world.  This picture shows the company unloading coal in Livorno, Italy.'

53. Consolidation Coal Company Unloading Coal in Livorno, Italy

Miners leaving roofed man trip car at shifts end.

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

Two miners operate the breast type coal cutting machine.

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

A gear driven cutting machine stands on the track.

56. Very Old Track Mounted Cutting Machine

Two miners operate a track mounted coal cutting machine.

57. Track Mounted Cutting Machine

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

58. Miners Stand by Steel Mine Railway Cars

A miner empties his shuttle car.

59. Shuttle Car Discharging Coal

Men digging into the mound.

60. Ireland Mine Cresap Area Excavation of Gatt's Adena Indian Mound

Several men digging on top of a mound.

61. Excavating an Indian Mound on Ireland Coal Company Land

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

62. Loaded Coal Shuttle Car

63. Shot Down Coal, Mine No. 63

Coal miner's shower room.

64. Miner's Showers, Hanna Coal Company

65. Coal Cargo Ship at Sea, Hampton Roads

A pile of coal in a coal car.

66. Peacock Splint, Pittsburgh Coal

Group portrait of men standing in the bucket of a large shovel.

67. Visitors Pose with Hanna Coal Company's Mountaineer Shovel

A miner operates an electric shuttle car in the mine.

68. Miner Operating an Electric Shuttle Car

A man stands beside large piles of coal.

69. Various Grades of Coal Awaiting Transport

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.'

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

Coal conveyor systems run throughout the hillside.

71. Raw Coal Conveyor System

Two miners cut coal at Pursglove No. 15

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

73. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

74. Miner Operates a Coal Cutting Machine Prior to Blasting

75. Coal Shovel and other Surface Mining Equipment at Work

This crane is ripping the mountainside away for coal.

76. Massive Coal Shovel at Work

The very large Itmann preparation plant.  A Consolidation Coal Company mine in 1979.

77. Itmann Preparation Plant, Pocahontas Fuel Company

Coal cars line up in the yard at mine 32.

78. Mine No. 32, Owings, W. Va.

A tipple mine processing plants sits on the edge of a mountain.

79. Tipple at Middleton Mine, Middleton, Marion Co. W. Va.

A coal filling station stands over the tracks at Mine 86.

80. Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 86 at Carolina, W. Va.

Coal cars run down the track in a preparation plant yard.

81. Coal Preparation Plant Yard

A few men stand outside of processing plant no. 32 at Fairmont W. Va.

82. Consol No. 32, New Tipple & Cleaning Plant, Fairmont W. Va.

83. Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 32, Fairmont, W. Va.

Coal cars line up at Consolidation Coal Co. (W. Va.), mine no. 25 tipple.

84. Coal Tipple, Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 25, W. Va.

A processing plant sits below miner's homes and open countryside.

85. Preparation Plant

Two men working with a rubber tire mounted cutting machine.

86. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

87. Visitor Standing In The Scoop of the Mountaineer Coal Shovel

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

Locomotive No. 5016, inspection party special train near Somerset, Pa.

89. Inspection Party Special Train Near Somerset, Pennsylvania

90. Tour of Hanna Coal Company Mine Site, Cadiz, Ohio

Group Portrait of Men Standing Below the Tiger Coal Shovel

91. Visitors Pose with Hanna Coal Company's Tiger Shovel

92. 35 Yard Stripping Shovel at Hanna Coal Company Surface Mine

93. Miner Marking a Coal Seam

Caption on back reads, 'Stiff-arming a highwall is the job of this new, double-decker drill in operation at the Georgetown mine, Hanna Coal Co., at Georgetown, Ohio. Fruit of the ingenuity of coal mining engineers, the drill makes two blast holes at different levels in the highwall, permitting a blasting shot that brings down a large section of 'overburden.' The 'overburden,' rock, shale, limestone, clay and other mineral deposits, lies above the coal seam. Surface, or open-pit mining, accounts for 23 percent of total bituminous production. The Georgetown mine is the largest surface mine in the world.'

94. Double Decker Drill in Operation at Georgetown Mine, Georgetown, Ohio, Hanna Coal Company

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

96. Miner Roof Bolting