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People swimming with coal buildings in the background.

913. Swimming Near Coal Mine

IDNO:
002600
Title:
Swimming Near Coal Mine
Date:
undated
Description:
People swimming with coal buildings in the background.
Group walking on railroad tracks with coal buildings all around them. None of the subjects are identified.

914. Miners' Children Walking on Railroad Tracks Near Coal Tipple and Miner's Houses

IDNO:
002610
Title:
Miners' Children Walking on Railroad Tracks Near Coal Tipple and Miner's Houses
Date:
undated
Description:
Group walking on railroad tracks with coal buildings all around them. None of the subjects are identified.

915. Loading Machine Discharges Coal into Shuttle Car

IDNO:
002700
Title:
Loading Machine Discharges Coal into Shuttle Car
Date:
undated
Modified longwall mining with a German coal planer. Progress report 2: Completion of mining in three adjacent panels in the Pocahontas No. 4 coal bed, Helen, W. Va; If this photograph is used for publication, please give credit to the Bureau of Mines, United States Department of Interior.

916. Wood Crib Constructed with Crib Releases

IDNO:
002750
Title:
Wood Crib Constructed with Crib Releases
Date:
undated
Description:
Modified longwall mining with a German coal planer. Progress report 2: Completion of mining in three adjacent panels in the Pocahontas No. 4 coal bed, Helen, W. Va; If this photograph is used for publication, please give credit to the Bureau of Mines, United States Department of Interior.
Rescue box with lid open to see contents inside.

917. Miner's Rescue Box

IDNO:
002800
Title:
Miner's Rescue Box
Date:
undated
Description:
Rescue box with lid open to see contents inside.
Miner sitting in between posts that hold the roof of the mine up. 'Safety First is stressed in every possible way at White Oak mines. Note the posts to protect this man at his labor. He is waiting for another mine car so he can clean up his working place and make it ready for the mining machine crew who will cut it during the night, ready for him to work tomorrow.'

918. Safety Posts

IDNO:
002808
Title:
Safety Posts
Date:
undated
Description:
Miner sitting in between posts that hold the roof of the mine up. 'Safety First is stressed in every possible way at White Oak mines. Note the posts to protect this man at his labor. He is waiting for another mine car so he can clean up his working place and make it ready for the mining machine crew who will cut it during the night, ready for him to work tomorrow.'
Safety float of the New River Coal and Coke Co. on the Fourth of July. Floats with safety themes highlighted many parades in Fayette and Raleigh Counties.

919. New River Coal Company Safety Float at Mt. Hope, W. Va.

IDNO:
002810
Title:
New River Coal Company Safety Float at Mt. Hope, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Safety float of the New River Coal and Coke Co. on the Fourth of July. Floats with safety themes highlighted many parades in Fayette and Raleigh Counties.
Miner's houses, coke ovens, and tipple at Richard, W. Va.

920. Coke Ovens and Tipple at Richard, W. Va.

IDNO:
002914
Title:
Coke Ovens and Tipple at Richard, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Miner's houses, coke ovens, and tipple at Richard, W. Va.
Blizard, Mooney, Petry, and Keeney were the leaders of the coal miners union during the mine wars in southern W. Va.

921. Leaders of Union During Armed March

IDNO:
002924
Title:
Leaders of Union During Armed March
Date:
undated
Description:
Blizard, Mooney, Petry, and Keeney were the leaders of the coal miners union during the mine wars in southern W. Va.
Group portrait of a U.M.W.A. baseball team.

922. United Mine Workers of America Baseball Team

IDNO:
002926
Title:
United Mine Workers of America Baseball Team
Date:
undated
Description:
Group portrait of a U.M.W.A. baseball team.
Group portrait of the U.M.W.A. Baseball team.

923. United Mine Workers of America Baseball Team

IDNO:
002927
Title:
United Mine Workers of America Baseball Team
Date:
undated
Description:
Group portrait of the U.M.W.A. Baseball team.
Portrait of Don Chafin.

924. Chafin, Don

IDNO:
002934
Title:
Chafin, Don
Date:
undated
Description:
Portrait of Don Chafin.