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View of Coke ovens and buildings surrounding them at the Collinsville Mine, Glen Jean.

1. Coke Ovens at Collinsville Mine, Glen Jean

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

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

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

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

Portrait of men standing on and around a porch.

4. General Office Staff of the New River Coal Company

Loaded August 30, 1913.

5. First Mine Car Loaded with Coal, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

6. First Coal Loaded in Railroad Cars, Tipple, Mine No. 301, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

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

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

8. Coal Stored at Mouth of Mine Before Tracks Were Laid, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

9. Hauling Mine Supplies and Building Material Over the Mountains for Construction Work

On the front: "Five teams- six mules each team- hauling building material from mouth of Beaver Creek, a distance of twenty-five miles, prior to arrival of railroad."

10. Teams of Mules Hauling Building Material From Mouth of Beaver Creek, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

On the front: "Substation- reducing current from 40,000 volts to 250 volts."

11. Substation, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

On the front: " Boone Creek is named after Daniel Boone, who passed through this country in 1781. The tree still stands and is in a healthy condition. It is located about two miles from Fleming, near the lower end of the property."

12. Tree at Boone Creek

On the front: "Sawmill, which has capacity of 30,000 feet per day."

13. View of Sawmill

14. First Coal Loaded in Railroad Cars, Tipple, Mine No. 328, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

15. Face of Coal at Mouth of Mine No. 304, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

16. Mine Opening Just Started, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

17. Mine Opening Just Started, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

18. One of the Openings at Mine No. 301, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

19. Mine Opening Just Started, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

20. Heading and Aircourse, Mine No. 301, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

21. Mining Machine Traveling Under Its Own Power to Cut Coal in another Heading, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

22. Mining Machine in Operation, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

23. Coal Storage Pile, Mine No. 302, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

24. Two Mines, The Coal From Which Will be Handled Over One Tipple, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

25. Sawmill Which Has Capacity of 20,000 Feet per Day, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

On the front: "Eventually the coal will be hauled by electric power."

26. Mules Hauling Mine Cars of Coal, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

27. Mine Motor Bringing Out a Trip of Loaded Cars, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

28. Mine Opening No. 301,Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

29. Tipple, Mine No. 329, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

30. Tipple, Mine No. 330, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

31. Tipple Under Construction, Mine No. 303, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

32. Group of Houses, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Hemphill, Ky.

33. Showing Part of Progress Made Prior to Completion of Elk Horn and Beaver Valley Railway, Wayland, Ky.

34. Group of Miners' Houses, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

35. Group of Miners' Houses, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

36. Group of Miners' Houses, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

37. Group of Miners' Houses, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Wayland, Ky.

38. Group of Miners' Houses, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

39. Group of Miners' Houses, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Wayland, Ky.

40. Group of Miners' Houses, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Wayland, Ky.

Elk Horn Mining Corporation

41. View of Houses Under Construction and a Producing Oil Well in the Distance, Garrett, Ky.

42. Group of Miners' Houses, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Garrett, Ky.

On the front: "One of the stores- dimensions 65 x 90."

43. Mine Store, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

On the front: "One of the office buildings."

44. Mine Office Building, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

On the front: "Hotel- Contains Pool Room, Restaurant, Moving Picture Parlor and Barber Shop."

45. View of Hotel on Mining Property, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

On the front: "Town Hall- used for Post Office, Court Room and Bank- Upstairs used for various secret orders."

46. Town Hall, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

Elk Horn Mining Corporation

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

Elk Horn Mining Corporation

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

49. Houses Under Construction, Mine No. 303, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

50. Group of Houses, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Haymond, Ky.

51. Lumber Yard, Mine No. 303, Elk Horn Mining Corporation, Eastern Kentucky

52. Lexington and Eastern Railroad Station, Fleming, Ky.

From left to right: Jake Sibloski, Walter Miller, Louis Roncaglione, Andrew Vargo and Fred Lamb.

53. Scarbro Team which Won the International First Aid Contest at Denver, Colorado in 1920

54. Garden Ground Tipple

Group portrait of miners and rescue equipment.  This group took first place at competitions St. Louis.  From Left to Right: Frank Colline, Edward Graff, Howard Samuels, Andrew Lightfoot, R.P. Nicholls and Fred Lamb.

55. New River Coal and Coke Company's International Mine Rescue Champions

56. New River Company Employees who helped at the Benwood Mine Disaster.

Mining town of Lochgelly in the Winter.

57. Winter Scene at Lochgelly, W. Va.

Orchestra standing at the top of some steps. Broadcasted from KDKA, Pitt.

58. Cranberry Fuel Company Orchestra

59. MacDonald Girls First Aid Team at the Tenth Annual First Aid Meet at Scarbro, W. Va.

Directors cup at annual employees first aid meet at Scarbro.

60. New River Company Directors Cup at Annual Employees First Aid Meet at Scarbro, W. Va.

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

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

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

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

The Summerlee Store at the Summerlee Mine of the New River Company. The people sitting in front of the store from right to left; Harry Stamper, Lola Lewis, A.R. Long, Delia Alexander, A.J. Bishop.

63. New River Coal Company, Summerlee Store

V.P. in charge of operations since 1911, resigned for health reasons in 1941.

64. Portrait of Edward Graff

View of the church at Cranberry.

65. Community Church at Cranberry, W. Va.

66. Portrait of J. A. Hunt

Tipple with a parked car outside with man leaning on it.

67. Summerlee Tipple

68. Skelton Mine Tipple

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

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

70. Sprague Tipple

Loaded railroad cars on the tracks at Skelton show the famous White Oak Smokeless Coal.

71. Loaded Railroad Cars at Skelton Hauling White Oak Smokeless Coal

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

72. Man Trip to Skelton Mine in Winter

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

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

Stanaford Tipple loading coal cars.  Coal cars moving up and down hill on tracks.

74. Stanaford Wooden Tipple

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

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

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

76. MacDonald Presbyterian Church

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

Horse drawn carts emerging from the White Oak Coal Company Storage and Distributing Plant at Richmond, Virginia.

78. White Oak Coal Company Storage and Distributing Plant at Richmond, Virginia

Group of men and child pose in front of train No. 122 at Lochgelly station. Left is the Lochgelly store which burned in  1941. Right is the Supply House which burned in 1917.

79. Train at Lochgelly

80. Summerlee Hoisting Room, C. B. Lee, Engineer, at the Controller

Scene on Collinsville grounds shows early residents.

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

Timber piles around the Prosperity Mine and Tipple.

82. Prosperity Mine and Tipple

'Operated by the White Oak Fuel Co. of Fayette County.'

83. Tipple and Power House at Early Whipple Mine, White Oak Fuel Company, Fayette County, W. Va.

White Oak Railway Co. built this Oak Hill Station to serve the area.

84. Oak Hill Station, White Oak Railway Company

Station of the Piney River and Paint Creek Railroad Co. at Beckley, Raleigh County, W. Va.

85. Piney River and Paint Creek Railroad Station at Beckley, Raleigh 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.'

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

87. Eureka Mine Tipple and Power House, Eureka Colliery Company, Kanawha County, W. Va.

88. Scarbro Coal Tipple

Tipple and General Store in the Background

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

Collins Operation - tipple and coke ovens.  Collins Colliery Co., Fayette County.  Daily capacity 1200 tons, 125 tons.

90. Collins Colliery Company Tipple and Coke Ovens, Fayette County, W. Va.

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

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

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

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

Men and horses stand in cut in hillside.  This construction work done by the White Oak Railway Co. was the Carter's Branch Cut to connection with the Virginia Railway.

93. Construction Work on the Carters Branch Cut to Connection with the Virginia Railway

View of tipple, coke ovens, and surrounding buildings.

94. Harvey Operation Tipple, Coke Ovens and Part of Town

Passenger Train of White Oak Railway Co. with a line of people outside of it.

95. Passenger Train, White Oak Railway Company

'Operated by Cranberry Fuel Company of Raleigh County. Daily capacity was 1000 tons.'

96. Skelton Mine Tipple and Power House, Cranberry Fuel Company, Raleigh County, W. Va.