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Group portrait of men assembled to catch a murderer.

1. Posse After Murderer, April 30 , 1912

Men posing with the Consol. Coal. Co. Locomotive No. 2 on its trial trip.

2. Consolidation Coal Company 20 Ton Locomotive No. 2 on Trial Trip

3. Miner's Class in English Language

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

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

5. Miners Operating a Loading Machine

Two men placing charges in an already drilled hole. Notice the preparatory cut on upper right hand side.

6. Miners Placing Charges

Two men operating a loading machine.

7. Loading Machine in Action at Mine No. 32

This picture shows the thickness of the coal seam in relation to a normal doorway.

8. Thickness of Coal Seam at Long Branch No. 1

Miners leaving roofed man trip car at shifts end.

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

Lewis is seated at the table on the right.

10. Consolidation Coal Company Officials Dine With John L. Lewis at the Fairmont Field Club

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.'

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

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.'

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

13. Miners Loading Coal Into a Hand Loaded Loading Machine

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

14. Loading Coal Cars at the Cranberry Mine Tipple

Coal loading area.  Cars going under a tipple.

15. Summerlee Coal Mine Facilities

Many coal cars loaded at the Summerlee Mine.

16. Coal Cars at Summerlee Coal Tipple

Skelton Mine tipple loading coal cars.

17. Skelton Mine Tipple

Two men working on the loading machine.

18. Coal Loading Machine in Operation at Jamison Mine No. 9

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

19. Miner Roof Bolting at Jamison No. 9 Mine

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

20. Itmann Preparation Plant, Pocahontas Fuel Company

Two men with equipment putting up bolts to support the mine roof.

21. Miner Roof Bolting

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

22. Miners Stand by Steel Mine Railway Cars

23. Ireland Mine Portal Area Supply Yard

Men digging into the mound.

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

Several men digging on top of a mound.

25. Excavating an Indian Mound on Ireland Coal Company Land

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.

26. Employees of the Loveridge Mine

Snow covered coal tipple station. Possibly at Summerlee?

27. Coal Tipple

View of the "Point" at Pittsburgh.

28. Aerial View of Industrial Pittsburgh

29. Miner Walking on Tracks Between Coal Cars

Coal cars coming away from tipple.

30. Sumerlee Coal Tipple

Chessapeake and Ohio train cars full of coal.

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

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

32. Coal Tipple

Chesapeake and Ohio coal cars full of coal.

33. Loaded Coal Cars at Summerlee or Cranberry

Coal cars being loaded under a tipple.

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

Coal cars going under tipple, Cranberry or Summerlee Mine.

35. Coal Tipple

Tipple filling coal car with large pieces of coal.

36. Loaded Coal Car

Tipple on a hillside, possibly Cranberry or Summerlee.

37. 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.'

38. Loaded Cars at the Summerlee Coal Tipple

39. 35 Yard Stripping Shovel at Hanna Coal Company Surface Mine

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

40. Miners Operating a Loading Machine

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

41. Tipple of Kanawha Coal Company

42. Joy Manufacturing Company Continuous Mining Machine

Coal conveyor systems run throughout the hillside.

43. Raw Coal Conveyor System

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

44. Loaded Coal Shuttle Car

Two miners digging coal in mine.

45. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

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

46. Preparation Plant

Two men working with a rubber tire mounted cutting machine.

47. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

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

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

Two men cutting coal in the parting.

49. Cutting Coal with Cavalier

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

Champion coal

51. Champion Coal Workers Use the Self Unloading-Power Chute, Univeyor Truck Delivery System, Stoker Coal

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

52. Cutting Machine in Operation at Mine No. 32

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

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

Two miners operate a track mounted coal cutting machine.

54. Track Mounted Cutting Machine

Two miners take samples of coal.

55. Miners Taking Samples of Coal

56. Coal Seams in Layers of Rock

57. Towboats and Coal Barges on an Appalachian River

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

58. Miner Walking Along Tracks Next to Coal Carts

A miner empties his shuttle car.

59. Shuttle Car Discharging Coal

60. Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Car Loaded with Coal

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

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

Miners gathered in a typical Consol locker room with a modern bath house adjacent to it.

62. Typical Consol Locker Room

63. Miner Operates a Coal Cutting Machine Prior to Blasting

A large scoop with two cars fitting between its jaws.

64. Two Cars Fit into the Scoop of the 'Mountaineer'

Unidentified coal loading platform alongside railroad tracks.

65. Coal Loading Platform

Miner on a small, track mounted, cutting machine.

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

'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.'

67. Miner and Loaded Mine Car

68. Coal Loading Machine

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

69. Miners in a Mine Office

After open-cut mining has been completed in a given area, the land affected is graded and planted in forage crops. Seeding done to date has consisted of a mixture of legumes and grasses with alfalfa predominateing, but also included were sweet clover, birdsfoot trefoil, brome grass and orchard grass. Other mixtures which have been used include alfalfa and brome grass, and birdsfoot trefoil with blue grass. A few years after seeding, these fields will supposrt a good stand of forage crops. White faced Hereford cattle are then turned out for grazing. Experience has shown that the cattle often gain wieght faster in these fields than in adjoining fields unaffected by open cut mining. It is also interesting to note that when the cattle are given their choice of a grazing spot, they invariably choose the restored fields.  The open-cut mining operations contribute greatly to the enrichment of this soil. This is because in the process of open-cut mining a vein of water-soluble limestone is broken up and mixed in with the soil. This photograph shows white faced Herefords grazing in a field which has been affected by open-cut mining and later graded and planted. Hanna Coal Company, Division of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company.

70. Cattle Grazing on Reclaimed Fields Which Have Been Affected by Open-Cut Mining

A gear driven cutting machine stands on the track.

71. Very Old Track Mounted Cutting Machine

Men work with core drilling equipment on a hillside.

72. Core Drilling

Five men standing in the Mountaineer Scoop.

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

74. Miner Marking a Coal Seam

A man stands beside large piles of coal.

75. Various Grades of Coal Awaiting Transport

Coal cars line up in the yard at mine 32.

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

Miner shoveling coal as it pours into a coal car.

77. Loading Coal Cars

Two miners cut coal at Pursglove No. 15

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

79. Miner Inspecting Coal Cars Exiting the Mine

80. Coal Shovel and other Surface Mining Equipment at Work

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

81. Bituminous Coal From Western Pennsylvania Enroute to Market

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

82. Youngsters in front of the Mountaineer Shovel

Coal in cars inside of a plant being processed.

83. Coal Being Processed

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

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

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

A car parked next to the Mountaineer crawler to demonstrate size.  Hanna Coal Company, Division of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company.

86. Mountaineer, a 60 Cubic Yard Shovel with a Car Size Crawler

87. Miner Operating a Coal Loading Machine

Group Portrait of Men Standing Below the Tiger Coal Shovel

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

89. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

Miners at work with loading machine and shuttle car.

90. Miner Operating a Loading Machine

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.'

91. Consolidation Coal Company Unloading Coal in Livorno, Italy

Photo shows W.A. Boggess, head clerk, hands Joe his two weeks pay envelope.

92. Miner's Pay Day

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.'

93. Miners Seated on Bench in an Underground Mine.

94. Coal Cargo Ship at Sea, Hampton Roads

95. Visitors Watching the Mountaineer Coal Shovel at Work

96. Block of Coal