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721. Results of Open Cut Mining

IDNO:
004359
Title:
Results of Open Cut Mining
Hanna Coal Co. Shovels: 'looks like 'The Mountaineer' on the right and probably 'The Tiger' on 'The Green Hornet' on the left.'

722. Hanna Coal Company Shovels at Work

IDNO:
004362
Title:
Hanna Coal Company Shovels at Work
Description:
Hanna Coal Co. Shovels: 'looks like 'The Mountaineer' on the right and probably 'The Tiger' on 'The Green Hornet' on the left.'
Shovel strip mining a hillside.

723. Shovel at Work on a Surface Mine

IDNO:
004363
Title:
Shovel at Work on a Surface Mine
Description:
Shovel strip mining a hillside.
Two cranes surface mining a gorge. Dump trucks taking away hillside ruble.

724. Strip Mining Operation, Georgetown No.12 Mine

IDNO:
004364
Title:
Strip Mining Operation, Georgetown No.12 Mine
Date:
undated
Description:
Two cranes surface mining a gorge. Dump trucks taking away hillside ruble.

725. Mountaineer, the World's Largest Shovel

IDNO:
004365
Title:
Mountaineer, the World's Largest Shovel
Visitors and workers standing inside of a coal shovel, possibly The Tiger.

726. Visitors and Workers Posing in a Coal Shovel

IDNO:
004370
Title:
Visitors and Workers Posing in a Coal Shovel
Description:
Visitors and workers standing inside of a coal shovel, possibly The Tiger.
'Close-up view of dipper on 50 cubic-yard shovel at Georgetown No. 12 Mine of Hanna Coal Company, Division of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company. These electric shovels are used to remove the earth and rock overburden from the coal seam. In a month's time, they will each remove as much as 1,600.000 cubic yards, or some 2,400.000 tons. If this material were to be loaded into open railroad cars, it would fill some 48,000 of them.'

727. Truck Parked in a 50 Cubic Yard Shovel at Georgetown No. 12 Mine

IDNO:
004371
Title:
Truck Parked in a 50 Cubic Yard Shovel at Georgetown No. 12 Mine
Description:
'Close-up view of dipper on 50 cubic-yard shovel at Georgetown No. 12 Mine of Hanna Coal Company, Division of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company. These electric shovels are used to remove the earth and rock overburden from the coal seam. In a month's time, they will each remove as much as 1,600.000 cubic yards, or some 2,400.000 tons. If this material were to be loaded into open railroad cars, it would fill some 48,000 of them.'
Hanna Coal Company's large electric shovel 'The Mountaineer'.

728. Mountaineer, the World's Largest Shovel

IDNO:
004377
Title:
Mountaineer, the World's Largest Shovel
Description:
Hanna Coal Company's large electric shovel 'The Mountaineer'.

729. Consol No. 26 New England Mine Tipple

IDNO:
004383
Title:
Consol No. 26 New England Mine Tipple
Coal miners loading railroad cars at the tipple located at Bartley, West Virginia. Please credit this photograph to the Pocahantas Fuel Company.

730. Coal Tipple at Bartley, W. Va.

IDNO:
004396
Title:
Coal Tipple at Bartley, W. Va.
Description:
Coal miners loading railroad cars at the tipple located at Bartley, West Virginia. Please credit this photograph to the Pocahantas Fuel Company.
'Gardener cultivating flower bed on lawn in front of preparation plant, Mine No. 98, Consolidation Coal Co., W. Va.' Bituminous Coal Institute, 320 Southern Building, Washington 5, D.C. November 1948.

731. Mine No. 98 Tipple

IDNO:
004400
Title:
Mine No. 98 Tipple
Date:
1948/08
Description:
'Gardener cultivating flower bed on lawn in front of preparation plant, Mine No. 98, Consolidation Coal Co., W. Va.' Bituminous Coal Institute, 320 Southern Building, Washington 5, D.C. November 1948.
Old Mine No. 207-208 Tipple in Dunham, Kentucky. "First loading coal- Aug. 17, 1912."

732. Tipple at Old Mine No. 207-208, Dunham, Kentucky

IDNO:
004406
Title:
Tipple at Old Mine No. 207-208, Dunham, Kentucky
Description:
Old Mine No. 207-208 Tipple in Dunham, Kentucky. "First loading coal- Aug. 17, 1912."