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Julius Blaney driving a coal cart with people in a coal mine.

1. Blaney, Julius, a Former Student, Operates a Coal Cart

Two miners digging coal in mine.

2. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

Two miners take samples of coal.

3. Miners Taking Samples of Coal

4. Miner Marking a Coal Seam

5. Miner Operates a Coal Cutting Machine Prior to Blasting

6. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

Two miners cut coal at Pursglove No. 15

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

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.'

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

A miner operates an electric shuttle car in the mine.

9. Miner Operating an Electric Shuttle Car

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

10. Loaded Coal Shuttle Car

A miner empties his shuttle car.

11. Shuttle Car Discharging Coal

12. Miner Explaining Coal Conveyor to Group on a Mine Tour

13. Miners Loading Coal Into a Hand Loaded Loading Machine

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.'

14. Miners Seated on Bench in an Underground Mine.

15. Coal Miner at Work Underground

Miners in cars about to go down to the pit.  Photograph courtesy of the Farm Security Administration.

16. Man Trip to the Working Face

A miner operates a cart full of coal exiting the mine.

17. Coal Cars Exiting a Mine

'West Virginia coal miners entering 'the bowels of the earth' to produce fuel for the defense of the Nation.  The State supplies more than a quarter of the Nation's total production of coal.' Courtesy of W. Va. Dept of Labor.

18. Coal Miners Entering Mine, 'The Man Trip'

Miners and filled coal cars inside a mine.

19. Interior of a Coal Mine

Miners talking while others run drilling equipment.

20. Miners and Equipment Inside a Coal Mine

Miner works on pile of shot down coal.

21. Shot Down Coal at Jamison Coal Mine No. 9

'This miner has just completed loading a mine car of 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 car. An industrious miner will load about six and sometimes eight of these cars in one day. This is a wooden mine car that is now being rapidly replaced by steel mine car equipment. The number of post shown in this picture indicate again the immense amount of timber required to conduct operations in a safe manner.'

22. Loaded Mine Car

'Note the wooden mine car. It is of the Barnestown shaft which was the first shaft, of 100 feet in depth, in the valley.'

23. Miners at Work

24. Miner Testing for Gas in Jamison No. 9 Mine