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

25. Typical Consol Locker Room

26. Miner Operates a Coal Cutting Machine Prior to Blasting

Miner on a small, track mounted, cutting machine.

27. 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.'

28. Miner and Loaded Mine Car

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

29. Miners in a Mine Office

30. Miner Marking a Coal Seam

Miner shoveling coal as it pours into a coal car.

31. Loading Coal Cars

Two miners cut coal at Pursglove No. 15

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

33. Miner Inspecting Coal Cars Exiting the Mine

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

35. Miner Operating a Coal Loading Machine

36. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

Miners at work with loading machine and shuttle car.

37. Miner Operating a 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.'

38. Miners Seated on Bench in an Underground Mine.

Two miners operate the breast type coal cutting machine.

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

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

40. Miner Cutting Coal in Consol Mine in Kentucky

Coal miner's shower room.

41. Miner's Showers, Hanna Coal Company

A miner operates an electric shuttle car in the mine.

42. Miner Operating an Electric Shuttle Car

43. Cutting Coal Preparatory to Shooting It Down for Loading

A miner operating a coal cutting machine.

44. Coal Miner at Work

45. Coal Miner at Work Underground

Men carrying cans along track with coal cars.

46. Miner Walking Past Loaded Coal Cars

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