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This picture shows the thickness of the coal seam in relation to a normal doorway.

1. Thickness of Coal Seam at Long Branch No. 1

Two miners digging coal in mine.

2. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

3. Coal Seams in Layers of Rock

Unidentified coal loading platform alongside railroad tracks.

4. Coal Loading Platform

5. Visitors Watching the Mountaineer Coal Shovel at Work

6. Tour of Hanna Coal Company Mine Site, Cadiz, Ohio

7. Coal on Conveyor

Two miners take samples of coal.

8. Miners Taking Samples of Coal

9. Miner Marking a Coal Seam

Group Portrait of Men Standing Below the Tiger Coal Shovel

10. Visitors Pose with Hanna Coal Company's Tiger Shovel

11. Tour of Hanna Coal Company Mine Site, Cadiz, Ohio

12. Visitor Standing In The Scoop of the Mountaineer Coal Shovel

13. Miner Operates a Coal Cutting Machine Prior to Blasting

14. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

Two miners cut coal at Pursglove No. 15

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

Coal conveyor systems run throughout the hillside.

16. Raw Coal Conveyor System

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.'

17. 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.

18. Miner Operating an Electric Shuttle Car

19. Shot Down Coal, Mine No. 63

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

20. Loaded Coal Shuttle Car

A miner empties his shuttle car.

21. Shuttle Car Discharging Coal

Men work with core drilling equipment on a hillside.

22. Core Drilling

Group portrait of children standing in front of the large shovel 'The Mountaineer'.

23. Youngsters in front of the Mountaineer Shovel

Five men standing in the Mountaineer Scoop.

24. Tour of Hanna Coal Company Mine Site, Cadiz, Ohio

25. Visitors Pose with Hanna Coal Company's Mountaineer Shovel

26. Miners Loading Coal Into a Hand Loaded Loading Machine

27. Visitors and Workers Standing in the Shovel of the Tiger

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.'

28. Miners Seated on Bench in an Underground Mine.

29. Coal Miner at Work Underground

Taken at Cranberry mine, Chesapeake and Ohio Coal cars being filled under a tipple.

30. Loading Coal Cars at the Cranberry Mine Tipple

'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.'

31. Miner and Loaded Mine Car

Chesapeake Coal Car getting loaded off of coal ramp.

32. Loading Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars

Tipple loading coal mining cars are shown.

33. Coal Mine Tipple

34. Miner Inspecting Coal Cars Exiting the Mine

Men carrying cans along track with coal cars.

35. Miner Walking Past Loaded Coal Cars

Man walking on a train track beside two other tracks with coal cars on them.

36. Miner Walking Along Tracks Next to Coal Carts

Skelton Mine tipple loading coal cars.

37. Skelton Mine Tipple

Kanawha Coal Co. tipple loading Chesapeake and Ohio coal cars.

38. Tipple of Kanawha Coal Company

Coal cars on train tracks.

39. Loaded Coal Cars

40. Miner Walking on Tracks Between Coal Cars

Tipple filling coal car with large pieces of coal.

41. Loaded Coal Car

Miner shoveling coal as it pours into a coal car.

42. Loading Coal Cars