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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

Two miners operating a loading machine.

25. Miners Operating a Loading Machine

26. Miners Work on a Loading Machine Inside a Mine

Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company mine.<br />

27. Miner Operating a Joy Cutting Machine

28. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine at Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 3

Five miners sitting in mine with their headlamps on.

29. Miners Sitting in an Underground Coal Mine

Miner standing in portal to Jamison No. 9.

30. Portal at Jamison No. 9 Mine

Men riding in coal cars along snow covered tracks to the Skelton mine during winter time.  Miner's homes and wood piles visible.

31. Man Trip to Skelton Mine in Winter

A miner is driving a battery powered shuttle car that is self unloading to the loading station.

32. Battery Powered 'Self Unloader' Shuttle Car Hauling Coal to Loading Station

Miner putting bolts into the roof of a mine for support.

33. Miner Roof Bolting

Miner putting bolts into the roof of a mine for support.

34. Miner Roof Bolting

Miner putting bolts into the roof of a mine for support.

35. Miner Roof Bolting

Miner stands on pile of coal ready to be loaded and sent out of mine.

36. Coal Shot Down and Ready for Loading

Miner placing boards in Cavalier Mine No. 206.

37. Miner Placing Boards on the Floor of Cavalier Mine No. 206

Miner tests for gas in mine.

38. Testing for Gas

Miner tests for gas in mine.

39. Testing for Gas

Miner tests for gas in mine.

40. Testing for Gas

41. Miners Testing for Gas in a Coal MIne

42. Miner Riding on Filled Coal Car

Two miners test for gas in mine. Hamilton Wright Organization Inc.  80 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, 'Newspaper Feature News' This photograph released to you GRATIS for editorial use only. Do not use for advertising purpose without written permission.

43. Testing for Gas

Man tests for gas at the Jamison No. 9 Mine.

44. Testing for Gas at Jamison No. 9 Mine

Group portrait of miners standing with horses in a mine.

45. Miners and Horse Drawn Cart

Group of miners attempt to realign the wheels of a coal car with the tracks in the mine. John Williams, Coal Life Project

46. Miners Fixing Mine Car

Miners operating a cutting machine.

47. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

Miner operating a loading machine.

48. Loading Machine in Operation