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A miner is driving a battery powered shuttle car that is self unloading to the loading station.

1. Battery Powered 'Self Unloader' Shuttle Car Hauling Coal to Loading Station

Miner putting bolts into the roof of a mine for support.

2. Miner Roof Bolting

Miner putting bolts into the roof of a mine for support.

3. Miner Roof Bolting

Miner putting bolts into the roof of a mine for support.

4. Miner Roof Bolting

Men lean against coal cars at the Tram Road of Winifrede Coal Co., Winifrede, W. Va.

5. Tram Road, Winifrede Coal Company, Winifrede, W. Va.

Miner stands on pile of coal ready to be loaded and sent out of mine.

6. Coal Shot Down and Ready for Loading

Miner tests for gas after shooting of coal in Bishop's Mine, Poca Fuel Co.?

7. Testing for Gas After Shooting at Bishop's Mine

Miner checking for gas on pile of coal after it was shot down.

8. Coal Shot Down and Ready for Loading

Miner placing boards in Cavalier Mine No. 206.

9. Miner Placing Boards on the Floor of Cavalier Mine No. 206

'West Virginia has produced 20 percent of all the coal mined in the United States since 1800, a survey shows. The survey, by the Bituminous Coal Institute, also showed that during the 20 years from 1930 through 1949, West Virginia led all states in soft coal production. Picture courtesy of the W. Va. Dept. of Labor.'

10. Miner Checking for Gas

Two miners operate a Sullivan cutting machine.

11. Cutting Machine

Miner tests for gas in mine.

12. Testing for Gas

Miner tests for gas in mine.

13. Testing for Gas

Miner tests for gas in mine.

14. Testing for Gas

Mine crew building top of mine shaft enclosure at Eccles, W. Va. Sherman A. Clay present.

15. Eccles No. 1 Miners on Top of Shaft

16. Miners Testing for Gas in a Coal MIne

17. Miner Riding on Filled Coal Car

Two miners test for gas in mine. Hamilton Wright Organization Inc.  80 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, 'Newspaper Feature News' This photograph released to you GRATIS for editorial use only. Do not use for advertising purpose without written permission.

18. Testing for Gas

Man tests for gas at the Jamison No. 9 Mine.

19. Testing for Gas at Jamison No. 9 Mine

Two miners pose for a picture beside railroad tracks.

20. Miners by the Railroad Tracks at an Unknown Location

'Safety first is stressed in every possible way in White Oak mines. Note the posts set to protect this man at his labor. He is waiting for another mine car so he can clean up his work place and make it ready for the mining machine crew who will cut it during the night ready for him to work tomorrow.'

21. Miner Waiting for Mine Car

Group portrait of miners standing with horses in a mine.

22. Miners and Horse Drawn Cart

Small boy running the trip rope, Welch Mining Co., Welch, W. Va. Credit National Archives 102-LH-70

23. Boy Running Trip Rope, Welch Mining Company, Welch, W. Va.

Group of miners attempt to realign the wheels of a coal car with the tracks in the mine. John Williams, Coal Life Project

24. Miners Fixing Mine Car

'Miners walking from slope entry in background toward wash house at end of shift. Mine No. 98, Consolidation Coal Co. W. Va.'

25. Miners Walking to Wash House, Mine No. 98, Consolidation Coal Company, W. Va.

Miner in the process of placing charges into the coal seam at Bishop Mine.

26. Placing Charges, Bishop Mine

A group of men work on excavating and old Adena Indian mound.

27. Ireland Mine Cresap Area Excavation of Gatt's Adena Indian Mound

28. Miners at Work in Bethlehem Mine, Barrackville, W. Va.

Miners riding tram engines with company houses in the background; United Poca Coal Co., Crumpler, W. Va.

29. Miners Riding Mine Tram Engines, United Poca Coal Company, Crumpler, W. Va.

Miners examine coal on conveyor belt.

30. Screening Coal, Thomas, W. Va.

Miners operating a cutting machine.

31. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

Miner operating a loading machine.

32. Loading Machine in Operation

Miner operating a Joy Loading Machine. '180 tons a day.'

33. Joy Loading Machine in Action

34. Miner Operating a Joy Continuous Mining Machine

Miner operating a Joy loading machine.

35. Modern Joy Loading Machine

Miner operating a Joy loading machine.

36. Joy Loading Machine

Miner operating a Joy continuous mining machine.

37. Joy Manufacturing Company Continuous Mining Machine

Man riding an electric car.

38. Miner Operating an Electric Car, Consolidation Coal Company, Ky.

Two miners work with a machine to undercut coal.

39. Miners Undercutting Coal with Machine

Cutting machine in operation at the Pocahontas Exhibition mine, Pocahontas Va. on the Norfolk and Western Railway. 'Permission is granted to reproduce this photograph only on condition that all reproduction shall bear the following credit line: Photograph by Norfolk and Western Railway.'

40. Cutting Machine in Operation at the Pocahontas Exhibition Mine, Pocahontas, Va.

Two miners at Pursglove No. 15 cut coal preparatory to shooting it down for loading.

41. Cutting Coal at Pursglove No. 15

Two miners work with a cutting machine at Mine 206, Kentucky. 'This material is the property of the Consolidation Coal Co. and must be returned promptly to: Advertising Department, Consolidation Coal Company, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y.

42. Miners with Cutting Machine, Mine 206, Ky.

Two miners work on putting in roof bolts in the Pittsburgh Seam. Timber jack used to hold the roof while bolting.

43. Miners Roof Bolting

Two miners next to an electric locomotive.

44. Miner on Electric Locomotive

Two miners put bolts in to the mine rood at Jamison No. 9.

45. Miners Roof Bolt Drilling in Jamison No. 9 Mine

Man in tram car in mine in the Winifrede Coal Seam, Kanawha County, W. Va. 'Geological Survey.'

46. Winifrede Coal Seam, Kanawha County, W. Va.

Car filled with coal. 'Geological Survey'

47. Coalburg Coal at Mine of Kelley Creek Colliery Company

A very large cutting machine being operated by a miner. 'Credit must be given to William Vandivert, Not to be reproduced without written liscense.

48. Cutting Machine in Operation at Mine No. 32