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Miner shoveling coal as it pours into a coal car.

1. Loading Coal Cars

IDNO:
004567
Title:
Loading Coal Cars
Description:
Miner shoveling coal as it pours into a coal car.

2. Miner Walking on Tracks Between Coal Cars

IDNO:
004565
Title:
Miner Walking on Tracks Between Coal Cars
Date:
ca. 1950-1960
Man walking on a train track beside two other tracks with coal cars on them.

3. Miner Walking Along Tracks Next to Coal Carts

IDNO:
004552
Title:
Miner Walking Along Tracks Next to Coal Carts
Description:
Man walking on a train track beside two other tracks with coal cars on them.
Men carrying cans along track with coal cars.

4. Miner Walking Past Loaded Coal Cars

IDNO:
004551
Title:
Miner Walking Past Loaded Coal Cars
Description:
Men carrying cans along track with coal cars.

5. Miner Inspecting Coal Cars Exiting the Mine

IDNO:
004549
Title:
Miner Inspecting Coal Cars Exiting the Mine
'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.'

6. Miner and Loaded Mine Car

IDNO:
004544
Title:
Miner and Loaded Mine Car
Description:
'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.'

7. Coal Miner at Work Underground

IDNO:
002228
Title:
Coal Miner at Work Underground
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.

8. Employees of the Loveridge Mine

IDNO:
002227
Title:
Employees of the Loveridge Mine
Date:
1960/08/25
Description:
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.
Men sitting down on benches with mine diagrams on the walls. Joe Akers is on the right.

9. Miners in a Mine Office

IDNO:
002225
Title:
Miners in a Mine Office
Description:
Men sitting down on benches with mine diagrams on the walls. Joe Akers is on the right.
A coal cutter with nine foot cutting blade at work in Consol. Coal Co. Mine No. 32, Owings, W. Va.

10. Cutting Machine in Operation at Mine No. 32

IDNO:
002224
Title:
Cutting Machine in Operation at Mine No. 32
Description:
A coal cutter with nine foot cutting blade at work in Consol. Coal Co. Mine No. 32, Owings, W. Va.
Close-up view of roof drill in action. Man in background is tightening bolt with air powered wrench at Consol. No. 204, Jenkins, Ky.

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

IDNO:
002223
Title:
Miners Roof Bolting at Consol No. 204, Jenkins, Ky.
Description:
Close-up view of roof drill in action. Man in background is tightening bolt with air powered wrench at Consol. No. 204, Jenkins, Ky.
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.'

12. Miners Seated on Bench in an Underground Mine.

IDNO:
002222
Title:
Miners Seated on Bench in an Underground Mine.
Description:
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.'