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'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.'

4369. 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.'
Marion Shovel Model 28 at work.

4370. Hardesty Strip Mining Operation

IDNO:
004372
Title:
Hardesty Strip Mining Operation
Date:
1925
Description:
Marion Shovel Model 28 at work.
The remains of the Fire Creek Headhouse are partially hidden. Film developed in November 1990.

4371. Ruins of Fire Creek Headhouse

IDNO:
004373
Title:
Ruins of Fire Creek Headhouse
Description:
The remains of the Fire Creek Headhouse are partially hidden. Film developed in November 1990.
Visitors or workers standing in the Fire Creek Coal and Coke Co. store.

4372. Fire Creek Coal and Coke Company Store

IDNO:
004374
Title:
Fire Creek Coal and Coke Company Store
Date:
ca. 1936
Description:
Visitors or workers standing in the Fire Creek Coal and Coke Co. store.
Man stands atop coal loaded in a railroad gondola as it is loaded at a tipple. W. Va. Industry and Pub. Comm.

4373. Loading Coal into Railroad Gondolas

IDNO:
004375
Title:
Loading Coal into Railroad Gondolas
Description:
Man stands atop coal loaded in a railroad gondola as it is loaded at a tipple. W. Va. Industry and Pub. Comm.
From a glass lantern slide of stripping coal in Hazleton, Pa.

4374. Glass Lantern Slide of Stripping Coal in Hazleton, Pa.

IDNO:
004376
Title:
Glass Lantern Slide of Stripping Coal in Hazleton, Pa.
Description:
From a glass lantern slide of stripping coal in Hazleton, Pa.
Hanna Coal Company's large electric shovel 'The Mountaineer'.

4375. 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'.
'Addazio Contracting Co. Inc., Oyster Bay N.Y.'

4376. Loading Coal at an Unidentified Surface Mining Site

IDNO:
004378
Title:
Loading Coal at an Unidentified Surface Mining Site
Description:
'Addazio Contracting Co. Inc., Oyster Bay N.Y.'
Area of strip mining.

4377. Strip Mining Operation

IDNO:
004379
Title:
Strip Mining Operation
Description:
Area of strip mining.

4378. Bulldozer Stripping Coal

IDNO:
004380
Title:
Bulldozer Stripping Coal
A small house sits next to the tipple. Filled coal cars are on the tracks.

4379. Fairmont Coal Company Ehlen Mine Tipple

IDNO:
004381
Title:
Fairmont Coal Company Ehlen Mine Tipple
Description:
A small house sits next to the tipple. Filled coal cars are on the tracks.

4380. Sprague Tipple

IDNO:
004382
Title:
Sprague Tipple
Date:
1948/05/11