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Tipple and General Store in the Background

1. Miners' Houses, Beckley Coal and Coke Company, Raleigh County, W. Va.

Group of people wait at the train station as a train comes in.

2. White Oak Railway Station at Scarbro, W. Va.

3. Original Mount Hope Hotel, Later Called the Mountainaire Hotel

4. Scarbro Amusement Hall which Contains the Theatre, Barber Shop, and Pool Room

Clusters of miner's houses in the distance at Sprague, W. Va.

5. Bird's Eye View of Sprague, W. Va.

6. White Oak Country Club on Summerlee Road

Beckley Fire Creek Coal Company.

7. Miner's Homes Along a Tree Lined Road in Penman, W. Va.

8. Episcopal Church, Glen Jean, W. Va.

Men riding in coal cars along snow covered tracks to the Skelton mine during winter time.  Miner's homes and wood piles visible.

9. Man Trip to Skelton Mine in Winter

Distant view of Oak Hill, W. Va.

10. Town of Oak Hill, W. Va.

Distant view of White Oak Fuel Company tipple and town at Carlisle, W. Va.

11. Carlisle Mine,Tipple and Portion of Town, White Oak Fuel Company of Fayette County, W. Va.

On the right is the MacDonald Presbyterian Church, and on the left is probably a schoolhouse.

12. MacDonald Presbyterian Church

Men stand in front of the tipple and power house at the Great Kanawha Mine, Great Kanawha Colliery Co., Kanawha County.

13. Great Kanawha Mine Tipple and Power House, Great Kanawha Colliery Company, Kanawha County, W. Va.

Klondyke Mine, Dunn Loop was the largest producer in the field. 'Dunn Loop Coal and Const. Chartered in W. Va. on Feb. 16, 1893.'

14. Klondyke Mine, Dunn Loop, 'Largest Producer in the Field'

Scene on Collinsville grounds shows early residents.

15. Hill Side on New River at Collinsville, W. Va.

Section of town of Whipple, West of the company store showing store in the foreground, miner's homes in the distance.

16. Section of the Town of Whipple, W. Va., West of the Company Store.

Panoramic view of the town of MacDonald with tipple on the hillside.

17. Town of MacDonald, MacDonald Colliery Company, Fayette County, W. Va.

Side view of the bottling plant at MacDonald.  Barrels stacked beside the plant building.

18. MacDonald Bottling Plant

Birds eye view of Summerlee Mine, shows railroad leading to the tipple.

19. Bird's Eye View of a Part of Summerlee, W. Va.

Railroad in front of a mining community.

20. Mine Run, White Oak Coal Company

The Lochgelly Church was dedicated on July 12th, 1931.

21. Lochgelly Church, Lochgelly, W. Va.

Houses around a railroad in a mining town. Mabscott and Wickham workers were close neighbors.

22. Mabscott and Wickham, W. Va., Mining Towns

Mining town of Lochgelly in the Winter.

23. Winter Scene at Lochgelly, W. Va.

The usual number of shoppers cars in front of Whipple Store.

24. Cars Parked in front of the Whipple Store

'The one grade White Oak is mighty proud of, is its Domestic Mine Run. Here yousee twenty-two cars of this grade at our Cranberry No. 3 Mine. This Mine Run is very coarse; free from impurities; has a bright shiny appearance and we ship a million tons of it every year. Just think of it, 20,000 cars of this fine fuel shipped to satisfied customers each year. We also want you to notice the background of the picture, showing the neat homes occupied by the men who mine White Oak coal. Notice also how neat the surroundings are. Houses are kept neatly painted; yards fensed; grounds kept clean and everything possible done to provide a nice place for employees to live.'

25. Railroad Cars Filled with Domestic Mine Run Grade Coal at White Oak Coal Company's Cranberry No. 3 Mine

Railroad and houses at the Summerlee Mine.

26. Summerlee Mine

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

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

Some miners houses at Prudence, W. Va.

28. Prudence, W. Va.

View of houses that line the hilltop above the Sherwood Mine.

29. Price Hill Fuel Company's Sherwood Mine

Children playing at the Cranberry playground, with a view of the town in the background.

30. Cranberry Playground and Store, Price Hill, W. Va.

Town of Scarbro in the fifties. You can see the town store, church, and the Wykle house.

31. Town of Scarbro, W. Va.

Aerial view of the town of Cranberry 'Foreground' and the town of Prosperity 'Background.'

32. Towns of Cranberry and Prosperity, W. Va.

View of the church at Cranberry.

33. Community Church at Cranberry, W. Va.

View of the town of Scarbro shows part of White Oak Valley.

34. White Oak Coal Company Town of Scarbro, Fayette County, W. Va.

Cars and people file down the streets at Mount Hope, W. Va.

35. Main Street, Mount Hope, W. Va.

Children playing on playground at Price Hill, W. Va.

36. Cranberry Playground and Store, Price Hill, W. Va.

View of houses in the town of Sprague, W. Va.  'Shows influence of yard and garden contests.'

37. Miners' Houses in Sprague, W. Va.

Early days of Sprague Mine and Town of Cranberry Fuel Company.

38. Sprague Mine and Town, Cranberry Fuel Company

Railroad cars filled with coal travel past a coal mining community.

39. Mine Run, White Oak Coal Company

Elk Horn Mining Corporation

40. View of Fleming, Ky., Looking Down Wright's Fork

Elk Horn Mining Corporation

41. View of Fleming, Ky., Looking Down Wright's Fork