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Dispatcher in office outside of mine. 'Credit must be given to William Vandivert, and picture is not to be reproduced without written license.'

37. Dispatcher at Mine No. 32

IDNO:
002995
Title:
Dispatcher at Mine No. 32
Date:
1947
Description:
Dispatcher in office outside of mine. 'Credit must be given to William Vandivert, and picture is not to be reproduced without written license.'
'An Electric Locomotive: Good dependable motive power is just as necessary in a coal mine as on a railroad. This picture shows on of White Oak's ten ton electric locomotives used to haul loads and distrubute empties in our mines. A crew consists of a motorman and brakeman, or trip rider, who pull loads from the working places to convenient sidings where they are picked up by main line locomotives, who haul to the tipple or shaft bottom. A large producing mine uses fifteen and twenty locomotives and five hundred mine cars in maintaining production.'

38. Miner Operating an Electric Locomotive

IDNO:
002996
Title:
Miner Operating an Electric Locomotive
Description:
'An Electric Locomotive: Good dependable motive power is just as necessary in a coal mine as on a railroad. This picture shows on of White Oak's ten ton electric locomotives used to haul loads and distrubute empties in our mines. A crew consists of a motorman and brakeman, or trip rider, who pull loads from the working places to convenient sidings where they are picked up by main line locomotives, who haul to the tipple or shaft bottom. A large producing mine uses fifteen and twenty locomotives and five hundred mine cars in maintaining production.'
Miners at work. 'Mountaineer Coal Co., Division of Consolidation Coal Co.'

39. Miners Working with Loading Machine

IDNO:
003001
Title:
Miners Working with Loading Machine
Date:
1959/04/07
Description:
Miners at work. 'Mountaineer Coal Co., Division of Consolidation Coal Co.'
Miner placing boards down near coal seam at Cavalier Mine No. 206.

40. Miner Placing Boards on the Floor of Cavalier Mine No. 206

IDNO:
003002
Title:
Miner Placing Boards on the Floor of Cavalier Mine No. 206
Description:
Miner placing boards down near coal seam at Cavalier Mine No. 206.
A miner working with machinery on the exterior of a mine.

41. Miner Working with Machinery Outside of Mine

IDNO:
003003
Title:
Miner Working with Machinery Outside of Mine
Description:
A miner working with machinery on the exterior of a mine.
Miner operating the Railroad car loading control panel.

42. Railroad Car Loading Control Panel

IDNO:
003004
Title:
Railroad Car Loading Control Panel
Description:
Miner operating the Railroad car loading control panel.
Miners and filled coal cars at the Scale House, Crane Creek Mine.

43. Scale House at Crane Creek

IDNO:
003005
Title:
Scale House at Crane Creek
Description:
Miners and filled coal cars at the Scale House, Crane Creek Mine.
A miner watches as coal is loaded into mine cars from a shuttle car.

44. Shuttle Car Discharges its Load into Mine Cars

IDNO:
003007
Title:
Shuttle Car Discharges its Load into Mine Cars
Description:
A miner watches as coal is loaded into mine cars from a shuttle car.
Miner operating a loading machine outside of a mine.

45. Loading Machine at MacAlpin Coal Company

IDNO:
003008
Title:
Loading Machine at MacAlpin Coal Company
Date:
ca. 1920-1930
Description:
Miner operating a loading machine outside of a mine.
Unknown miner sitting down outside of the mine. 'Please credit Farm Security Administration for Photo.

46. Miner Taking a Break

IDNO:
003013
Title:
Miner Taking a Break
Description:
Unknown miner sitting down outside of the mine. 'Please credit Farm Security Administration for Photo.
Miner using a very small cutting machine.

47. Small Cutting Machine

IDNO:
003014
Title:
Small Cutting Machine
Description:
Miner using a very small cutting machine.
Two miners work on a seam, one with a pick, the other with a shovel.

48. Miners at Work in Mine Interior

IDNO:
003015
Title:
Miners at Work in Mine Interior
Description:
Two miners work on a seam, one with a pick, the other with a shovel.