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1. Jeffrey Loading Machine Emptying Coal into a New 11-Ton Steel Mine Car at Mine No. 32

Four women standing in a Holden-Island Creek Coal Company coal car. Photograph from Joe Ozanic scrapbook.

2. Photograph from Joe Ozanic Scrapbook Taken at Holden 22, Island Creek Coal Company

'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.'

3. Miner and Loaded Mine Car

'All ready-Hoist! This is an end view of one of our new steel mine cars on a cage at one of the White Oak Shaft mines, and the signal has just been given to hoist it to the surface--450 feet up! These electric equipped hoists can hoist a car every twenty seconds and dump it! The cars are placed on the cages automatically by creeper chains and car stops. One man operates the signals and car stops and chains.'

4. Steel Mine Car at One of the White Oak Shaft Mines

Group of miners attempt to realign the wheels of a coal car with the tracks in the mine. John Williams, Coal Life Project

5. Miners Fixing Mine Car

Mine car traveling through the mine.

6. Mine Car

'This is an end view of one of our new steel mine cars on a cage at one of the White Oak Shaft mines, and the signal has just been given to hoist it to the surface, 450 feet up! These electric equipped hoists can hoist a car every twenty seconds and dump it! The cars are placed on the cages and automatically by creeper chains and car stops. One man operates the signals and car stops and chains.'

7. Steel Mine Car

'This miner has just completed loading a mine car of 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 car. An industrious miner will load about six and sometimes eight of these cars in one day. This is a wooden mine car that is now being rapidly replaced by steel mine car equipment. The number of post shown in this picture indicate again the immense amount of timber required to conduct operations in a safe manner.'

8. Loaded Mine Car

9. Loading Coal in an Unidentified MIne

Miners shovel coal into carts for hauling out of mine.

10. Miners Shoveling Coal in Carts

Interior of mine shows properly timbered places and spragged car.

11. Miner with Coal Car