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Pciture taken from West Virginia Review, Vol. 4, Oct. 1926 - Sept. 1927. Article, 'The Winding Gulf Coal Fields' by C.H. Mead, April 1927 issue. Picture is on page 212.

2881. Gulf Smokeless Coal Company, Tams, W. Va., Winding Gulf District

Railroad and houses at the Summerlee Mine.

2882. Summerlee Mine

Miners log cabins built up next to the railroad.

2883. Miners' Housing

Mining homes with rubble in the streets.

2884. Miners' Housing

Home of the coal operator J. L. Beury in Beury, W. Va.

2885. Home of Coal Operator J. L. Beury at Beury, W. Va.

Coal mine town at Tams, W. Va.

2886. Gulf Smokeless Coal Company, Tams, W. Va., Winding Gulf District

Filled Chesapeake and Ohio coal car in front of a group of houses at Tams, W. Va.Picture includes: Betty Jean Seals, Robert Church, Doris Williams, Marlene Dews, Leroy Messingbery, Josephine or Ernestine Hill, Whitney Hairston, Wilfred Younger, and Charlene Jennings.

2887. Beckley Coal at Tams, Raleigh County, W. Va.

Trains filled with coal file past a group of miners houses in Sprague, W. Va.

2888. Miner's Houses in Sprague, W. Va.

'View of Montcoal, the attractive up-to-date town built up around the Colcord Coal Company operations.' The picture came from the West Virginia Review, page 429, in an article titled 'A Coal Company that is a real Community Builder'.

2889. Montcoal, W. Va.

'Modern Y.M.C.A. and recreation building; teacherage; and consolidated school building. Carbon is where the first Y.M.C.A in a bituminous field in the U.S. was established.' Picture was taken from an article in the West Virginia Review by C.A. Cabell, President of Carbon Fuel Company, titled 'Building a Mining Community'. Picture is on page 209 of the April 1927 issue.

2890. YMCA at Carbon, W. Va.

View of saloon in Carbon, Kanawha County.

2891. Red Rabbit Saloon at Carbon, W. Va.

View of the building that houses the Y.M.C.A. at Montcoal. Picture was taken from the West Virginia Review, Sept. 1930, in an article titled 'A Coal Company that is a Real Community Builder',  page 429.

2892. YMCA at Montcoal, W. Va.