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Chesapeake and Ohio and Virginian Coal Cars with a shed in the background. Taken at the Summerlee mine.

1. Coal Cars with Shed in the Background at Summerlee Mine

IDNO:
002036
Title:
Coal Cars with Shed in the Background at Summerlee Mine
Description:
Chesapeake and Ohio and Virginian Coal Cars with a shed in the background. Taken at the Summerlee mine.
Coal cars beside some houses and the company store with cars in front of it.

2. Coal Cars and General Store at Summerlee Mine

IDNO:
002037
Title:
Coal Cars and General Store at Summerlee Mine
Description:
Coal cars beside some houses and the company store with cars in front of it.
Caption on back reads, 'When better coal is prepared, White Oak will load and prepare it. We are proud of this picture of a car of "White Oak" Lump coal. This picture was also taken without the knowledge of the White Oak employees who loaded it. If you drive past any of the White Oak Mines on U.S. Highway 19-21, in Fayette County, W. Va., you will see many just like it.'

3. White Oak Coal in a Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Car

IDNO:
002038
Title:
White Oak Coal in a Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Car
Description:
Caption on back reads, 'When better coal is prepared, White Oak will load and prepare it. We are proud of this picture of a car of "White Oak" Lump coal. This picture was also taken without the knowledge of the White Oak employees who loaded it. If you drive past any of the White Oak Mines on U.S. Highway 19-21, in Fayette County, W. Va., you will see many just like it.'

4. Tipple of Lamar Colliery Company, Springton, W. Va. or Lamar, W. Va.

IDNO:
002074
Title:
Tipple of Lamar Colliery Company, Springton, W. Va. or Lamar, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1930-1940

5. Tipple of Lamar Colliery Company, Springton, W. Va. or Lamar, W. Va.

IDNO:
002075
Title:
Tipple of Lamar Colliery Company, Springton, W. Va. or Lamar, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1935
Railroad and houses at the Summerlee Mine.

6. Summerlee Mine

IDNO:
002891
Title:
Summerlee Mine
Description:
Railroad and houses at the Summerlee Mine.
'The Gaston Gas Coal Company, Gaston Mine Plant. Located one half mile South of Hunsaker Bridge on West Fork River. Owned by James Otis Watson and successor to American Coal Company's mining plant, built in 1852 at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Depot. This mine founded in 1875, closed in 1925. Picture shows 15 drop-bottom railroad cars called 'Hoppers.' These cars average 55 ton coal carrying capacity.'

7. Miners at Gaston Mine Plant

IDNO:
003359
Title:
Miners at Gaston Mine Plant
Date:
undated
Description:
'The Gaston Gas Coal Company, Gaston Mine Plant. Located one half mile South of Hunsaker Bridge on West Fork River. Owned by James Otis Watson and successor to American Coal Company's mining plant, built in 1852 at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Depot. This mine founded in 1875, closed in 1925. Picture shows 15 drop-bottom railroad cars called 'Hoppers.' These cars average 55 ton coal carrying capacity.'

8. Montour Railroad Cars Sitting By an Unidentified Preparation Plant

IDNO:
003447
Title:
Montour Railroad Cars Sitting By an Unidentified Preparation Plant
'Photo by Sara Jane Pollock, daughter of A.W. Pollock, gen. Manager of Spruce River Coal Co., whose house is the highest one in this picture.'

9. Freight Train Loaded with Miners on Way to the Front; Passing through Ramage, Boone County, W. Va.

IDNO:
004153
Title:
Freight Train Loaded with Miners on Way to the Front; Passing through Ramage, Boone County, W. Va.
Date:
1921
Description:
'Photo by Sara Jane Pollock, daughter of A.W. Pollock, gen. Manager of Spruce River Coal Co., whose house is the highest one in this picture.'
Train on the way to the front, passing through Ramage, Boone Co. Photo by Miss Sara Jane Pollock, Daughter of A.W. Pollock, gen. mgr. of Spruce R. Coal Co., whose house is the highest in this picture.

10. Freight Train Loaded with Miners on Way to Front, Ramage, Boone County, W. Va.

IDNO:
004214
Title:
Freight Train Loaded with Miners on Way to Front, Ramage, Boone County, W. Va.
Date:
1921
Description:
Train on the way to the front, passing through Ramage, Boone Co. Photo by Miss Sara Jane Pollock, Daughter of A.W. Pollock, gen. mgr. of Spruce R. Coal Co., whose house is the highest in this picture.
A man stands atop a filled coal car. 'Loading coal into railroad gondolas is made easy by structures called 'tipples.' The pictured tipple is typical of those to be found throughout the rich bituminous coal fields of southern West Virginia.'

11. Coal Mine Tipple

IDNO:
004334
Title:
Coal Mine Tipple
Description:
A man stands atop a filled coal car. 'Loading coal into railroad gondolas is made easy by structures called 'tipples.' The pictured tipple is typical of those to be found throughout the rich bituminous coal fields of southern West Virginia.'
Tipple and tracks with filled RR cars present.

12. Tipple at Consolidation Coal Company Williams Mine

IDNO:
004422
Title:
Tipple at Consolidation Coal Company Williams Mine
Description:
Tipple and tracks with filled RR cars present.