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One large basket with two smaller ones on each side that read 'A bushel basket holds the ash from a ton of White Oak smokeless coal.'

613. Bushel Basket Holds the Ash from a Ton of White Oak Smokeless Coal

IDNO:
001776
Title:
Bushel Basket Holds the Ash from a Ton of White Oak Smokeless Coal
Description:
One large basket with two smaller ones on each side that read 'A bushel basket holds the ash from a ton of White Oak smokeless coal.'
A clipping from the back of a map, showing a fossilized tree stump in a coal bed.

614. Fossil Tree Stump In Coal Bed

IDNO:
001778
Title:
Fossil Tree Stump In Coal Bed
Description:
A clipping from the back of a map, showing a fossilized tree stump in a coal bed.
Men stand on the porch of the Hotel Currey in Monongah, W. Va. 1907.

615. Hotel Currey in Monongah, W. Va.

IDNO:
001780
Title:
Hotel Currey in Monongah, W. Va.
Date:
1907
Description:
Men stand on the porch of the Hotel Currey in Monongah, W. Va. 1907.
A man stands in the mining shaft holding an instrument to test the gas levels in the mine.

616. Testing for Gas in a Pittsburgh Seam Coal Mine

IDNO:
001781
Title:
Testing for Gas in a Pittsburgh Seam Coal Mine
Description:
A man stands in the mining shaft holding an instrument to test the gas levels in the mine.
This is the first railroad bituminous coal mine in America. It was at Elkhart, Maryland, between Cumberland and Frostburg. Opened in 1842, when the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered Cumberland.

617. First Railroad Bituminous Mine in United States at Elkhart, Maryland

IDNO:
001783
Title:
First Railroad Bituminous Mine in United States at Elkhart, Maryland
Description:
This is the first railroad bituminous coal mine in America. It was at Elkhart, Maryland, between Cumberland and Frostburg. Opened in 1842, when the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered Cumberland.
Plan for modified longwall mining with a German coal planer (Plow) in the Pocahontas No. 3 coal bed, Keystone, West Virginia. Credit Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of the Interior.

618. Modified Longwall Mining with a German Coal Planer (Plow) in the Pocahontas No. 3 Coalbed, Keystone, W. Va.

IDNO:
001785
Title:
Modified Longwall Mining with a German Coal Planer (Plow) in the Pocahontas No. 3 Coalbed, Keystone, W. Va.
Description:
Plan for modified longwall mining with a German coal planer (Plow) in the Pocahontas No. 3 coal bed, Keystone, West Virginia. Credit Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of the Interior.
Jackhorn Furnace coal with a tennis ball placed among the blocks.

619. Jackhorn Mine Furnace Coal, Tennis Ball Size

IDNO:
001791
Title:
Jackhorn Mine Furnace Coal, Tennis Ball Size
Description:
Jackhorn Furnace coal with a tennis ball placed among the blocks.
Pile of Jackhorn five inch block coal.

620. Jackhorn Five Inch Block Coal

IDNO:
001792
Title:
Jackhorn Five Inch Block Coal
Description:
Pile of Jackhorn five inch block coal.
A painting by Van Gogh that shows slumped over workers walking along with sacks hanging from their heads. Two children stand in the background. John Williams, Coal Life Project. Rijksmuseumkrller-Mller, Otterlo(G.) Copyright Holland.

621. Coal Miners by Van Gogh

IDNO:
001793
Title:
Coal Miners by Van Gogh
Description:
A painting by Van Gogh that shows slumped over workers walking along with sacks hanging from their heads. Two children stand in the background. John Williams, Coal Life Project. Rijksmuseumkrller-Mller, Otterlo(G.) Copyright Holland.
Kelly's Creek Colliery next to railroad.

622. Kelly's Creek Colliery Building

IDNO:
001795
Title:
Kelly's Creek Colliery Building
Description:
Kelly's Creek Colliery next to railroad.
Loaded coal cars on the railraod.

623. Loaded Coal Cars

IDNO:
001797
Title:
Loaded Coal Cars
Description:
Loaded coal cars on the railraod.
Bridge over a valley leading to a mine entrance.

624. Bridge to Mine Entrance

IDNO:
001798
Title:
Bridge to Mine Entrance
Description:
Bridge over a valley leading to a mine entrance.