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1. Miners Moving a Dynamite Box

A man stands in the mining shaft holding an instrument to test the gas levels in the mine.

2. Testing for Gas in a Pittsburgh Seam Coal Mine

This sketch shows men, a women and children walking to work.  John Williams/ Coal Life Project.  Rijksmuseumkrller-Mller, Otterlo(G.) Copyright Holland.

3. Coal Miners on their Way to the Mines by Vincent Van Gogh

A painting by Van Gogh that shows slumped over workers walking along with sacks hanging from their heads.  Two children stand in the background. John Williams, Coal Life Project. Rijksmuseumkrller-Mller, Otterlo(G.) Copyright Holland.

4. Coal Miners by Van Gogh

5. Miner Driving Mathies Mine Electric Locomotive

Two miners riding a electric locomotive outside of a mine during the winter.

6. Miners on an Electric Locomotive

Miner walking next to coal carts outside of mine.

7. Coal Carts Entering and Leaving a Fayette County Mine

This trip of loaded cars contain mine run coal, ready to be dumped, that 'White Oak' is proud to put its trade mark on as a stamp of approval. It has received every care in mining, shooting and transportation that can possibly be given any coal up to the point where it is ready to be sized and loaded into railroad cars. This coal, due to careful shooting, is not friable but firm and will handle in railroad cars through to destination with minimum of degradation.

8. Miner and Loaded Mine Cars

A mine locomotive of the Price Hill Colliery Co.

9. Miners and Mine Locomotive at Price Hill Colliery Company

An electric locomotive carrying coal and miners outside of the mine.

10. Electric Locomotive Hauls Miners and Filled Coal Carts

Two men riding on a electric locomotive.

11. Miners on an Electric Locomotive

Miners standing next to coal carts and a locomotive. John Williams/Coal Life Project.

12. Miners Hauling Coal with an Old Mine Locomotive

Miners posing for a picture outside of an unknown mine. John Williams/Coal Life Project.

13. Coal Miners and Coal Carts Outside of Mine Entrance

Julius Blaney driving a coal cart with people in a coal mine.

14. Blaney, Julius, a Former Student, Operates a Coal Cart

Miners Workshop-Safety and Accident Prevention. Members of local unions from mining counties take this short refresher course to prepare to take the State Mine Examination.

15. Miners' Workshop, Safety and Accident Prevention

Coal filled mine cars and miners at the Winding Gulf Collieries. Possibly Winding Gulf No. 4.

16. Coal Filled Mine Cars and Miners

17. Coal Miners with Shovels Standing Next to Piles of Coal

Man buying things from a unknown company store.

18. Miners in a Coal Company Store

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

19. Miner Roof Bolting

Two miners digging coal in mine.

20. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

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

21. Miners Placing Charges

Two men working on the loading machine.

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

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

23. Typical Consol Locker Room

24. Miner Operating a Coal Loading Machine

Two miners take samples of coal.

25. Miners Taking Samples of Coal

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

27. Miner Marking a Coal Seam

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

Two men working with a rubber tire mounted cutting machine.

29. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

30. Miner Operates a Coal Cutting Machine Prior to Blasting

31. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

Two miners cut coal at Pursglove No. 15

32. 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.'

33. 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.

34. Miner Operating an Electric Shuttle Car

Coal miner's shower room.

35. Miner's Showers, Hanna Coal Company

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

36. Loaded Coal Shuttle Car

A miner empties his shuttle car.

37. Shuttle Car Discharging Coal

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

38. Miners Stand by Steel Mine Railway Cars

Two miners operate a track mounted coal cutting machine.

39. Track Mounted Cutting Machine

Two miners operate the breast type coal cutting machine.

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

Miners leaving roofed man trip car at shifts end.

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

Two men operating a loading machine.

42. Loading Machine in Action at Mine No. 32

43. Joy Manufacturing Company Continuous Mining Machine

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

44. Miner Cutting Coal in Consol Mine in Kentucky

Two men cutting coal in the parting.

45. Cutting Coal with Cavalier

46. Cutting Coal Preparatory to Shooting It Down for Loading

A miner operating a coal cutting machine.

47. Coal Miner at Work

Miner on a small, track mounted, cutting machine.

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

Miners at work with loading machine and shuttle car.

49. Miner Operating a Loading Machine

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

50. Miners Operating a Loading Machine

51. Miner Explaining Coal Conveyor to Group on a Mine Tour

52. Miners Loading Coal Into a Hand Loaded Loading Machine

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

53. Miner Roof Bolting at Jamison No. 9 Mine

54. Miners 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.'

55. Miners Seated on Bench in an Underground Mine.

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

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

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

57. Cutting Machine in Operation at Mine No. 32

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

58. Miners in a Mine Office

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.

59. Employees of the Loveridge Mine

60. Coal Miner at Work Underground

Men outside of the entrance to the mine at Fire Creek.

61. Tunnel to Main Entry at Fire Creek

Coal official shaking hands with miners

62. Coal Official Shaking Hands with Miners During a Consolidation Coal Company Inspection Trip

Group of miners and coal officials outside of mine building during a Consolidation Coal Co. Inspection trip.

63. Coal Officials and Miners, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company Inspection Trip

Miner talking with two coal officials during a Consolidation Coal Co. Inspection trip.

64. Miner Talking with Two Coal Officials, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company Inspection Trip

Three miners watch a line of coal officials entering a room during a Consolidation Coal Co. Inspection trip.

65. Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company Inspection Trip

Miners entering a room with other miners sitting on benches lining the walls during a Consolidation Coal Co. Inspection trip.

66. Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company Inspection Trip

Miners locker room during a Consolidation Coal Co. Inspection trip.

67. Miners' Locker Room, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company Inspection Trip

Group portratit of 'Five miners who lived to tell the story'

68. Survivors of an Explosion in McIntyre, Pa.

Group portrait of a mine safety team at Thomas, W. Va.

69. Mine Safety Team, Thomas, W. Va.

Miners in cars about to go down to the pit.  Photograph courtesy of the Farm Security Administration.

70. Man Trip to the Working Face

A miner operates a cart full of coal exiting the mine.

71. 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.

72. Coal Miners Entering Mine, 'The Man Trip'

Group of miners sitting on benches relaxing.

73. Miners Relaxing at Jamison No. 9 Mine

74. Edison Self Service Lamp Room at the Jamison No. 9 Mine

75. Day Shift Miners Leaving the Elevator at Jamison No. 9 Mine

Miners and filled coal cars inside a mine.

76. Interior of a Coal Mine

Miners talking while others run drilling equipment.

77. Miners and Equipment Inside a Coal Mine

Miner works on pile of shot down coal.

78. Shot Down Coal at Jamison Coal Mine No. 9

79. Miner Testing for Gas

80. Miner Roof Bolting

81. Miner Placing a Charge

'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.'

82. Loaded Mine Car

'White Oak preparation begins when the machine leaves and the miner is ready to shoot down his coal. The shooting inspector on the left has not only located the hole for the miner to drill, but instructed him as to what angle he must bore his hole to contain the necessary explosive used in dislodging the coal from the seam. The "kerf" made by cutting machine is plainly visible in this picture and you will note the cutting or "bug dust" have been removed before the coal is shot. The length of the auger used by the miner and the width of the bit which determines the size of the hole bored, is also carefully regulated.'

83. Miners Preparing to Shoot Down Coal

'Note the wooden mine car. It is of the Barnestown shaft which was the first shaft, of 100 feet in depth, in the valley.'

84. Miners at Work

85. Miner Testing for Gas in Jamison No. 9 Mine

Two miners operating a loading machine.

86. Miners Operating a Loading Machine

87. Miners Work on a Loading Machine Inside a Mine

Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company mine.<br />

88. Miner Operating a Joy Cutting Machine

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

Crowds gather to watch miners participate in Safety Day exercises.

90. Safety Day Is Important

91. Miners Riding Safety Man-Trip Cars in Jamison No. 9 Coal Mine

Miner sitting in between posts that hold the roof of the mine up. 'Safety First is stressed in every possible way at White Oak mines.  Note the posts to protect this man at his labor.  He is waiting for another mine car so he can clean up his working place and make it ready for the mining machine crew who will cut it during the night, ready for him to work tomorrow.'

92. Safety Posts

Group of miners in a safety class.

93. Miners in Safety Class

Miners taking their clothes down in their locker room.

94. Coal Miners' Locker Room

Group portrait of miners with families at the anniversary picnic at Clark Coal and Coke Eagle Mine.

95. Anniversary Picnic at Eagle Mine

Group of people with instruments. 'Many NRC towns had own orchestras.'

96. New River Coal Company Employee Orchestra