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A photo of three men walking to the mines.

1. Miners On Their Way to Work

Group portrait of miners, where five of them are on horses.  John Williams, Coal Life Project

2. Mine Crew with their Horse Drawn Carts and Lunch Pails in front of a West Virginia Mine

First overhead bridge. Z.W. Lafon, 711 N. Kana St. Z.W. Lafon last man on right, section foreman and assistant road master.

3. Miners in front of First Overhead Bridge at Mine Entrance

The group appears to have just completed their shift.

4. Carl Brooks with his Fellow Miners

Group Portrait of miners. Left: Dean Holland, Ernest Nesius (VP), Harry Hoflin (VP), Roman  Verhoalen (Dean of Extension), John Golay (Provost)

5. First Hand Look at Mining Operations

'Company office steps six years of service award. The African American was Harry Wade. Presenter of the award was Charlie Purdere, John Wyatt Receiving award. Rt. of Harry Wade was Floyd Rhodes, next in suit is a Eastern bighsot. Top rt. to lf. Hubert Lawson, Alan Smith, Wylie G. Erwin.'

6. Six Years of Service Award

7. Miners Eating in the Cafeteria

8. Coal Miners Riding on a Shuttle

Men in suits with coveralls over top of them wearing hardhats and head lamps.

9. Coal Officials on a Mine Tour

Miners of the Zephyr Mine are gathered around a Christmas tree. The man standing on the right side of the tree with a hat and suit is Rush Meadows, a mining engineer and operator from Charleston, W. Va.

10. Miners Given Christmas Hams and Presents from the Federal Consolidated Coal Company

Miners of the Zephyr mine and their wives and children are gathered in front of a Christmas tree. Circled in the photograph is Rush Meadows, a mining engineer and operator from Charleston, W. Va.

11. Miners and their Families Receive Christmas Hams and Presents from the Federal Consolidated Coal Company

Miners of the Zephyr mine hold on to their wrapped hams in front of a Christmas tree. Subjects unidentified.

12. Miners Receiving Christmas Hams from Federal Consolidated Coal Company