Search Results
- IDNO:
- 002385
- Title:
- Headframe of Bethlehem Mine.
- IDNO:
- 002387
- Title:
- Four States Mine, Marion County, W. Va.
- Description:
- Headframe, plant, and train cars at former Four States Mine.
- IDNO:
- 002597
- Title:
- Coal Mine Facilities at Interstate No. 1
- Description:
- Coal mine facilities on a hillside.
- IDNO:
- 002623
- Title:
- Eckhart Mine Between Cumberland and Frostburg, Md.
- Description:
- 'Eckhart mine located between Cumberland and Frostburg, Maryland. This was the first railroad shipping mine in America. it was opened in 1842 when the B&O railroad reached Cumberland, Maryland's George's Creek Coal field. This mine and James Otis Watson's mine opened at Fairmont, Virginia in 1852 were the nucleuses of the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company. This was the first mine in America to be located on a railway.'
- IDNO:
- 002656
- Title:
- Miners at Work
- Description:
- 'Note the wooden mine car. It is of the Barnestown shaft which was the first shaft, of 100 feet in depth, in the valley.'
- IDNO:
- 003056
- Title:
- Continuous Mining Machine, Helper and Crew
- Description:
- 'Machine, helper and crew. 350 tons a day, per 8 hour shift.'
- IDNO:
- 003074
- Title:
- Interior of New England Mine
- Description:
- 'Interior mine scene shows men using the lard oil miner's lamp and the use of horses as well as mules. New England Mine.'