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Wooden buildings next to train tracks.

1. Lumber Yard at Portes Creek

IDNO:
000212
Title:
Lumber Yard at Portes Creek
Date:
undated
Description:
Wooden buildings next to train tracks.
These pictures made before 1898 'probably at same time as Thompson made picture of entire plant'--also shown in this collection. Picture in upper left corner shows salt piled on drain boards after being lifted by hand from the crystalizing vats. Right upper picture shows salt being packed in barrels for shipment. Middle scene is in cooper shop. 'All salt at that time was shipped in barrels.' Lower left scene shows barrels of salt on platform ready to lower down incline to load on barges. Until the New York Central Railroad 'formerly the K&M' was built, all salt was shipped by barge or taken across Kanawha River and loaded on C&O Railroad at South Malden.

2. Collage Images of the Salt Industry

IDNO:
001429
Title:
Collage Images of the Salt Industry
Date:
undated
Description:
These pictures made before 1898 'probably at same time as Thompson made picture of entire plant'--also shown in this collection. Picture in upper left corner shows salt piled on drain boards after being lifted by hand from the crystalizing vats. Right upper picture shows salt being packed in barrels for shipment. Middle scene is in cooper shop. 'All salt at that time was shipped in barrels.' Lower left scene shows barrels of salt on platform ready to lower down incline to load on barges. Until the New York Central Railroad 'formerly the K&M' was built, all salt was shipped by barge or taken across Kanawha River and loaded on C&O Railroad at South Malden.
Kanawha Coal Co. tipple loading Chesapeake and Ohio coal cars.

3. Tipple of Kanawha Coal Company

IDNO:
004556
Title:
Tipple of Kanawha Coal Company
Date:
undated
Description:
Kanawha Coal Co. tipple loading Chesapeake and Ohio coal cars.
Published by The S. Spencer Moore Company. (From postcard collection legacy system.)

4. Aerial View of Kanawha River and City, Showing Kanawha Boulevard, Charleston, W. Va.

IDNO:
042741
Title:
Aerial View of Kanawha River and City, Showing Kanawha Boulevard, Charleston, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Published by The S. Spencer Moore Company. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
A coal miner at the Cedar Grove Collieries Inc. & Supply Co. mine observes as a loading boom drops coal between the rails into a hopper, which is carried by a conveyor to the river tipple and barges.

5. Loading Booms at Cedar Grove Mine Dropping Coal into Hoppers for Transportation to Kanawha River, Cedar Grove, W. Va.

IDNO:
052067
Title:
Loading Booms at Cedar Grove Mine Dropping Coal into Hoppers for Transportation to Kanawha River, Cedar Grove, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
A coal miner at the Cedar Grove Collieries Inc. & Supply Co. mine observes as a loading boom drops coal between the rails into a hopper, which is carried by a conveyor to the river tipple and barges.
Filled coal carts belong to the Cedar Grove Collieries Inc. & Supply Co. sit in a line on the barges beside the river.

6. Conveyor Line to River Tipple and Coal Barges on Kanawha River, Cedar Grove, W. Va.

IDNO:
052068
Title:
Conveyor Line to River Tipple and Coal Barges on Kanawha River, Cedar Grove, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Filled coal carts belong to the Cedar Grove Collieries Inc. & Supply Co. sit in a line on the barges beside the river.
Looking west on the tramroad, carts loaded with coal are pulled on a conveyor line to the railroad and river tipples by the Kanawha River.

7. Cedar Grove Mine Car Loaded with Coal on Conveyor Line to Tipple on Kanawha River, W. Va.

IDNO:
052069
Title:
Cedar Grove Mine Car Loaded with Coal on Conveyor Line to Tipple on Kanawha River, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Looking west on the tramroad, carts loaded with coal are pulled on a conveyor line to the railroad and river tipples by the Kanawha River.
Two men are standing by the tracks of the Little Kanawha Railroad, which follows the Little Kanawha River through Wirt and Wood Counties.

8. Big Ripple on the Little Kanawha River, Wirt County, W. Va.

IDNO:
053495
Title:
Big Ripple on the Little Kanawha River, Wirt County, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Two men are standing by the tracks of the Little Kanawha Railroad, which follows the Little Kanawha River through Wirt and Wood Counties.