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

1. Miner Roof Bolting

Two miners digging coal in mine.

2. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

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

3. Miners Placing Charges

Two men working on the loading machine.

4. 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.

5. Typical Consol Locker Room

6. Miner Operating a Coal Loading Machine

Two miners take samples of coal.

7. Miners Taking Samples of Coal

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

9. Miner Marking a Coal Seam

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

Two men working with a rubber tire mounted cutting machine.

11. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

12. Miner Operates a Coal Cutting Machine Prior to Blasting

13. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

Two miners cut coal at Pursglove No. 15

14. 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.'

15. 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.

16. Miner Operating an Electric Shuttle Car

Coal miner's shower room.

17. Miner's Showers, Hanna Coal Company

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

18. Loaded Coal Shuttle Car

A miner empties his shuttle car.

19. Shuttle Car Discharging Coal

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

20. Miners Stand by Steel Mine Railway Cars

Two miners operate a track mounted coal cutting machine.

21. Track Mounted Cutting Machine

Two miners operate the breast type coal cutting machine.

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

Miners leaving roofed man trip car at shifts end.

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

Two men operating a loading machine.

24. Loading Machine in Action at Mine No. 32

25. Joy Manufacturing Company Continuous Mining Machine

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

26. Miner Cutting Coal in Consol Mine in Kentucky

Two men cutting coal in the parting.

27. Cutting Coal with Cavalier

28. Cutting Coal Preparatory to Shooting It Down for Loading

A miner operating a coal cutting machine.

29. Coal Miner at Work

Miner on a small, track mounted, cutting machine.

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

Miners at work with loading machine and shuttle car.

31. Miner Operating a Loading Machine

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

32. Miners Operating a Loading Machine

33. Miners Loading Coal Into a Hand Loaded Loading Machine

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

34. Miner Roof Bolting at Jamison No. 9 Mine

35. 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.'

36. 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.

37. 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.

38. 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.

39. 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.

40. Employees of the Loveridge Mine

41. Coal Miner at Work Underground

'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.'

42. Miner and Loaded Mine Car

43. Miner Inspecting Coal Cars Exiting the Mine

Men carrying cans along track with coal cars.

44. Miner Walking Past Loaded Coal Cars

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

45. Miner Walking Along Tracks Next to Coal Carts

46. Miner Walking on Tracks Between Coal Cars

Miner shoveling coal as it pours into a coal car.

47. Loading Coal Cars