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An interior view of a typical mine prior to introduction of modern mechanical machines and loaders.  Coal miners used picks and shovels to remove the "black gold" from beneath the West Virginia hills.

1. Early West Virginia Coal Mine

2. Coal Miner at Work in Rosedale Coal Company

3. Coal Miners at Work in Rosedale Coal Company

4. Coal Miners in the Mine at Rosedale Coal Company

"This is a shaker conveyor minus the duckbill, with a 90 degree turn at the face of a 55 foot room. The loaders are seen shoveling coal into the shaker."

5. Hand Loading Shaker Conveyor, Island Creek Coal Company

"Six ton motor and mine cars loaded with man trip for second shift."

6. Mine Workers Posed with Cars, Island Creek Coal Company

7. Substation, Bath and Lamp Houses, Island Creek Coal Company

"Looking west on tramroad showing mine cars loaded with coal, head house, conveyor line, railroad tipple, river tipple and Kanawha River."

8. View of Tramroad Looking West, Island Creek Coal Company

9. Conveyor Line to River Tipple, Coal Barges and Kanawha River, Island Creek Coal Company

"Loading booms, lowered to level of track. The coal drops between the rails to a hopper below from which point a conveyor carries the coal to the river tipple and barges."

10. Loading Booms, Island Creek Coal Company

Old cars parked in front of a store front.

11. Store, Commissary, Office and Doctor's Office, Island Creek Coal Company

12. Coal Cars beside Railroad Tracks, Island Creek Coal Company

13. Coal Conveyor, Island Creek Coal Company

14. View from Coal Barge, Island Creek Coal Company

15. Coal Barges, Island Creek Coal Company

16. Coal Conveyor, Island Creek Coal Company

17. Coal Conveyor, Island Creek Coal Company

18. Coal Car beside Railroad Tracks, Island Creek Coal Company

19. Coal Conveyor, Island Creek Coal Company

20. Coal Conveyor, Island Creek Coal Company

21. Some of the Houses, Island Creek Coal Company

22. No. 5 Picking Table, Island Creek Coal Company

23. Cars Feeding Into Tipple, No. 3 Mine, Island Creek Coal Company

Mine workers are posed next to the dumping car.

24. Dumping Mine Car No. 4, Island Creek Coal Company

25. No. 6 Loading Lump Coal from Boom, Island Creek Coal Company

26. No. 8 Train of 'Run of Mine', Island Creek Coal Company

Mine workers are posed next to the loading boom.

27. No. 7 Loading Boom, Island Creek Coal Company

28. No. 2 Tipple, Island Creek Coal Company

Section one of three. Please see 035685 (section two) and 035686 (section three).

29. Panoramic View of Tipple No. 2 and Surrounding Houses, Island Creek Coal Company

Section two of three. Please see 035684 (section one) and 035686 (section three).

30. Panoramic View of Tipple No. 2 and Surrounding Houses, Island Creek Coal Company

Section three of three. Please see 035684 (section one) and 035685 (section two).

31. Panoramic View of Tipple No. 2 and Surrounding Houses, Island Creek Coal Company

32. No. 22 Planner, Island Creek Coal Company

Male workers are standing around examining machinery in this portrait.

33. No. 22 Planner, Island Creek Coal Company

34. No. 24 Preparation Plant, Fine Coal Cleaning Plant, Island Creek Coal Company

On the front: "Built by Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation."On the back: "125'x 26'x6' 6" 40 barges. Woods Brothers Construction Company, Lincoln, Nebraska."

35. View of a Barge

36. View of Construction, Island Creek Coal Company

37. Tipple

38. Mine Machinery

39. Tipple and Train with Coal Cars, The Standard Pocahontas Coal Company

40. View of Tipple and Coal Cars, The Standard Pocahontas Coal Company

41. View of Mine No. 24, Island Creek Coal Company

42. View Looking Down on Mine No. 24, Island Creek Coal Company

43. Mine Machinery, Mine No. 24, Island Creek Coal Company

44. View of Mine No. 24, Island Creek Coal Company

45. View of Mine No. 6, Island Creek Coal Company

46. View of Mine, Island Creek Coal Company

47. Coal Conveyor, Island Creek Coal Company

48. View of Mine No. 25, Island Creek Coal Company