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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

Miner operating a Joy Loading Machine. '180 tons a day.'

49. Joy Loading Machine in Action

50. Miner Operating a Joy Continuous Mining Machine

Miner operating a Joy loading machine.

51. Modern Joy Loading Machine

Miner operating a Joy loading machine.

52. Joy Loading Machine

Miner operating a Joy continuous mining machine.

53. Joy Manufacturing Company Continuous Mining Machine

Two miners work with a machine to undercut coal.

54. Miners Undercutting Coal with Machine

Two miners at Pursglove No. 15 cut coal preparatory to shooting it down for loading.

55. Cutting Coal at Pursglove No. 15

Two miners work on putting in roof bolts in the Pittsburgh Seam. Timber jack used to hold the roof while bolting.

56. Miners Roof Bolting

Two miners next to an electric locomotive.

57. Miner on Electric Locomotive

Two miners put bolts in to the mine rood at Jamison No. 9.

58. Miners Roof Bolt Drilling in Jamison No. 9 Mine

A very large cutting machine being operated by a miner. 'Credit must be given to William Vandivert, Not to be reproduced without written liscense.

59. Cutting Machine in Operation at Mine No. 32

'All White Oak mines are electrically equipped and of course this mining machine is operated by electricity. The machine is mounted and transported on a specially designed truck and moves under its own power from one working place to another. It is taken from the truck by the machine operator and his helper and moved to the place of the coal and place in cutting position as you see it in this picture. The machine consists of an endless chain with 'bits' inserted, which act as cutters. The machine cuts a 'kerf' or hole along the bottom of the coal about 4 inches high and extending back six feet under the coal. The fine coal made by this machine is what is commonly known as 'bug dust.' Cutting machines are operated at night and each machine is capable of cutting twenty places on each shift. These machines are operated on tonnage basis and these operators earn high wages.'

60. Mining Operating a Cutting Machine

Miners on an electric locomotive used in hauling mine cars.

61. Electric Locomotive Used in Hauling Mine Cars

Miners stand next to a large locomotive at Jamison No. 9.

62. Jamison No. 9 Mine Locomotive

'An Electric Locomotive: Good dependable motive power is just as necessary in a coal mine as on a railroad. This picture shows on of White Oak's ten ton electric locomotives used to haul loads and distrubute empties in our mines. A crew consists of a motorman and brakeman, or trip rider, who pull loads from the working places to convenient sidings where they are picked up by main line locomotives, who haul to the tipple or shaft bottom. A large producing mine uses fifteen and twenty locomotives and five hundred mine cars in maintaining production.'

63. Miner Operating an Electric Locomotive

Miners at work. 'Mountaineer Coal Co., Division of Consolidation Coal Co.'

64. Miners Working with Loading Machine

Miner placing boards down near coal seam at Cavalier Mine No. 206.

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

A miner working with machinery on the exterior of a mine.

66. Miner Working with Machinery Outside of Mine

Miner operating the Railroad car loading control panel.

67. Railroad Car Loading Control Panel

Miners and filled coal cars at the Scale House, Crane Creek Mine.

68. Scale House at Crane Creek

A miner watches as coal is loaded into mine cars from a shuttle car.

69. Shuttle Car Discharges its Load into Mine Cars

Miner operating a loading machine outside of a mine.

70. Loading Machine at MacAlpin Coal Company

Unknown miner sitting down outside of the mine. 'Please credit Farm Security Administration for Photo.

71. Miner Taking a Break

Miner using a very small cutting machine.

72. Small Cutting Machine

Two miners work on a seam, one with a pick, the other with a shovel.

73. Miners at Work in Mine Interior

Two miners work on filling up a coal tram car. John Williams, Coal Life Project.

74. Miners at Work

A miner works on a piece of machinery on the interior of the mine. John Williams, Coal Life Project.

75. Miner Working on Machinery

Two miners work with a mining machine. 'Compliments of Jeffrey Manufacturing Co.' John Williams, Coal Life Project.

76. Mining Operating a Cutting Machine

77. Miner Operating Cuttting Machine

Miner using machine to cut coal.

78. Cutting Coal

Miner works at unloading a shuttle car into an elevator.

79. Shuttle Car Unloading into an Elevator

Miner works with cutting machine at Jamison No. 9 mine.

80. Cutting Machine at Jamison No. 9

Miners using a cutting machine at Mine 32, Consolidation Coal Co.

81. Track Mounted Cutting Machine at Consolidation Coal Mine No. 32.

A modern coal cutting machine in operation at Bishop Mine.

82. Modern Coal Cutting Machine in Operation at Bishop Mine

Miner speaking in microphone at control board at Jamison No. 9.

83. Control Board at Jamison No. 9

Miner waiting for shuttle car to be loaded.

84. Shuttle Car Being Loaded

Miner at control board at Jamison No. 9.

85. Control Board at Jamison No. 9

'Coarse Lumpy Coal: This very coarse lumpy mine run coal is the result of proper shooting. The miner is paid on a tonnage basis for loading this coal into mine cars. He is required to watch his coal carefully as he loads it and she that no impurities become mixed with the coal.'

86. Miner Loading Coarse Lumpy Coal

Two miners drill before placing charges.

87. Drilling Prior to Setting Explosives

Two miners work with a Joy roof bolt drill at Jamison No. 9.

88. Joy Roof Bolt Drill at Jamison No. 9

Miner works at the control panel at Jamison No. 9.

89. Control Panel at Jamison No. 9

Miners ride in a locomotive at Jamison No. 9.

90. Jamison No. 9 Mine Locomotive

Jeffrey 290 cutting trench for 2200 volt line at Jamison No. 9.  Stonega Coke and Coal.

91. Jeffrey 290 cutting trench for 2200 volt line at Jamison No. 9

Miner using a 11 BU loading machine at Jamison No. 9. Stonega Coke and Coal.

92. Miner Operating a Loading Machine at Jamison No. 9

A Joy 10 RU preparing to cut US Royal Cable at Jamison No. 9.  Stonega Coke and Coal.

93. Joy 10 RU Preparing to Cut US Royal Cable at Jamison No. 9

'All White Oak mines are electrically equipped and of course this mining machine is operated by electricity. The machine is mounted and transported on a specially designed truck and moves under its own power from one working place to another. It is taken from the truck by the machine operator and his helper and moved to the place of the coal and placed in cutting position as you see in this picture. The machine consists of an endless chain with bits inserted, which act as cutters. The machine cuts a kerf or hole along the bottom of the coal about 4 feet and extending back six feet under the coal. The fine coal made by this machine is what is commonly known as bug dust. Cutting machines are operated at night and each machine is capable of cutting twenty places on each shift. These machines are operated on tonnage basis and these operators earn high wages.'

94. Miner Operating a Cutting Machine

Miner running a continuous mining machine.

95. Continuous Mining Machine

An 11BU loading machine and a Joy Shuttle car at Jamison No. 9.  Stonega Coke and Coal.

96. Loading Machine and Shuttle Car at Jamison No. 9