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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.
Tipple filling coal car with large pieces of coal.

2. Loaded Coal Car

IDNO:
004566
Title:
Loaded Coal Car
Date:
ca. 1950-1960
Description:
Tipple filling coal car with large pieces of coal.

3. Miner Walking on Tracks Between Coal Cars

IDNO:
004565
Title:
Miner Walking on Tracks Between Coal Cars
Date:
ca. 1950-1960
Coal cars on train tracks.

4. Loaded Coal Cars

IDNO:
004557
Title:
Loaded Coal Cars
Description:
Coal cars on train tracks.
Kanawha Coal Co. tipple loading Chesapeake and Ohio coal cars.

5. Tipple of Kanawha Coal Company

IDNO:
004556
Title:
Tipple of Kanawha Coal Company
Date:
undated
Description:
Kanawha Coal Co. tipple loading Chesapeake and Ohio coal cars.
Skelton Mine tipple loading coal cars.

6. Skelton Mine Tipple

IDNO:
004553
Title:
Skelton Mine Tipple
Date:
1952/04/20
Description:
Skelton Mine tipple loading coal cars.
Man walking on a train track beside two other tracks with coal cars on them.

7. 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.

8. Miner Walking Past Loaded Coal Cars

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

9. Miner Inspecting Coal Cars Exiting the Mine

IDNO:
004549
Title:
Miner Inspecting Coal Cars Exiting the Mine
Tipple loading coal mining cars are shown.

10. Coal Mine Tipple

IDNO:
004548
Title:
Coal Mine Tipple
Description:
Tipple loading coal mining cars are shown.
Chesapeake Coal Car getting loaded off of coal ramp.

11. Loading Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars

IDNO:
004545
Title:
Loading Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars
Description:
Chesapeake Coal Car getting loaded off of coal ramp.
'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.'

12. 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.'
Taken at Cranberry mine, Chesapeake and Ohio Coal cars being filled under a tipple.

13. Loading Coal Cars at the Cranberry Mine Tipple

IDNO:
004543
Title:
Loading Coal Cars at the Cranberry Mine Tipple
Date:
1952/04/20
Description:
Taken at Cranberry mine, Chesapeake and Ohio Coal cars being filled under a tipple.

14. Coal Miner at Work Underground

IDNO:
002228
Title:
Coal Miner at Work Underground
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.'

15. 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.'

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

IDNO:
002219
Title:
Visitors and Workers Standing in the Shovel of the Tiger

17. Miners Loading Coal Into a Hand Loaded Loading Machine

IDNO:
002218
Title:
Miners Loading Coal Into a Hand Loaded Loading Machine
Date:
1951/04/23

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

IDNO:
002216
Title:
Visitors Pose with Hanna Coal Company's Mountaineer Shovel
Five men standing in the Mountaineer Scoop.

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

IDNO:
002215
Title:
Tour of Hanna Coal Company Mine Site, Cadiz, Ohio
Description:
Five men standing in the Mountaineer Scoop.
Group portrait of children standing in front of the large shovel 'The Mountaineer'.

20. Youngsters in front of the Mountaineer Shovel

IDNO:
002214
Title:
Youngsters in front of the Mountaineer Shovel
Description:
Group portrait of children standing in front of the large shovel 'The Mountaineer'.
Men work with core drilling equipment on a hillside.

21. Core Drilling

IDNO:
002201
Title:
Core Drilling
Description:
Men work with core drilling equipment on a hillside.
A miner empties his shuttle car.

22. Shuttle Car Discharging Coal

IDNO:
002193
Title:
Shuttle Car Discharging Coal
Description:
A miner empties his shuttle car.
A miner moves a fully loaded shuttle car down the mine shaft.

23. Loaded Coal Shuttle Car

IDNO:
002190
Title:
Loaded Coal Shuttle Car
Description:
A miner moves a fully loaded shuttle car down the mine shaft.

24. Shot Down Coal, Mine No. 63

IDNO:
002189
Title:
Shot Down Coal, Mine No. 63
A miner operates an electric shuttle car in the mine.

25. Miner Operating an Electric Shuttle Car

IDNO:
002184
Title:
Miner Operating an Electric Shuttle Car
Description:
A miner operates an electric shuttle car in the 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.'

26. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine at Mine No. 32, Consolidation Coal Company, Owings, W. Va.

IDNO:
002181
Title:
Miners Operating a Cutting Machine at Mine No. 32, Consolidation Coal Company, Owings, W. Va.
Date:
1950/10
Description:
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.'
Coal conveyor systems run throughout the hillside.

27. Raw Coal Conveyor System

IDNO:
002180
Title:
Raw Coal Conveyor System
Description:
Coal conveyor systems run throughout the hillside.
Two miners cut coal at Pursglove No. 15

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

IDNO:
002179
Title:
Miners Operating a Cutting Machine in Pursglove No. 15 Mine
Description:
Two miners cut coal at Pursglove No. 15

29. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

IDNO:
002178
Title:
Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

30. Miner Operates a Coal Cutting Machine Prior to Blasting

IDNO:
002177
Title:
Miner Operates a Coal Cutting Machine Prior to Blasting

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

IDNO:
002164
Title:
Visitor Standing In The Scoop of the Mountaineer Coal Shovel

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

IDNO:
002161
Title:
Tour of Hanna Coal Company Mine Site, Cadiz, Ohio
Group Portrait of Men Standing Below the Tiger Coal Shovel

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

IDNO:
002160
Title:
Visitors Pose with Hanna Coal Company's Tiger Shovel
Description:
Group Portrait of Men Standing Below the Tiger Coal Shovel

34. Miner Marking a Coal Seam

IDNO:
002158
Title:
Miner Marking a Coal Seam
Two miners take samples of coal.

35. Miners Taking Samples of Coal

IDNO:
002154
Title:
Miners Taking Samples of Coal
Description:
Two miners take samples of coal.

36. Coal on Conveyor

IDNO:
002151
Title:
Coal on Conveyor

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

IDNO:
002145
Title:
Tour of Hanna Coal Company Mine Site, Cadiz, Ohio

38. Visitors Watching the Mountaineer Coal Shovel at Work

IDNO:
002143
Title:
Visitors Watching the Mountaineer Coal Shovel at Work
Unidentified coal loading platform alongside railroad tracks.

39. Coal Loading Platform

IDNO:
002142
Title:
Coal Loading Platform
Description:
Unidentified coal loading platform alongside railroad tracks.

40. Coal Seams in Layers of Rock

IDNO:
002140
Title:
Coal Seams in Layers of Rock
Two miners digging coal in mine.

41. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

IDNO:
002138
Title:
Miners Operating a Cutting Machine
Description:
Two miners digging coal in mine.
This picture shows the thickness of the coal seam in relation to a normal doorway.

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

IDNO:
002132
Title:
Thickness of Coal Seam at Long Branch No. 1
Date:
1947/09/26
Description:
This picture shows the thickness of the coal seam in relation to a normal doorway.