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IDNO:
003747
Title:
Mother Jones
Date:
undated
Description:
A portrait of Mother Jones, a prominent American labor and community organizer.
IDNO:
003697
Title:
Miners Tent Colony
Date:
undated
Description:
Tents behind fence in front of building. Laundry hanging on line. Some men on right side.
IDNO:
003600
Title:
Child in Window of Barrack
Date:
undated
IDNO:
003598
Title:
Barracks at Jamison No. 9., Marion County, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Three barracks in the snow.
IDNO:
003599
Title:
Miners' Children in Front of Barracks, Grant Town, W. Va.
Date:
undated
IDNO:
003576
Title:
Coal Miners' Tent Colony
Date:
undated
Description:
Looking down at a tent colony.
IDNO:
003750
Title:
Barracks at Lewistown, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Miners families in front of Lewistown Barracks.
IDNO:
003658
Title:
Barracks at Maidsville, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Barracks in Maidsville, Monongalia County, West Virginia.
IDNO:
003664
Title:
Lewis, John L. Giving a Speech
Date:
undated
Description:
John L. Lewis standing on a platform decorated in stars and stripes.
IDNO:
003650
Title:
Barracks at Baxter, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Located in Marion County.
IDNO:
003601
Title:
Barracks at Mt. Clare, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
View of barracks on hill above house with picket fence. Two females are standing in what appears to be the snowy road.
IDNO:
003663
Title:
Barracks at Irona with 1917 Scale Protest Sign, Irona, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1917
Description:
Sign on side of building reads, 'The 1917 scale means starvation wages, slavery conditions [and] sacrafice of honor to coal miners.'
IDNO:
003567
Title:
Mother Jones with U. M. W. A. organizer John R. Lawson and U. M. W. A. attorney Horace Hawkins
Date:
ca. 1913-1914
Description:
Mother Jones (center), with John R. Lawson (left) and Horace Hawkins (right).
IDNO:
004326
Title:
Newspaper Reporter at Forbes
Date:
ca. 1913-1914
Description:
Newspaper reporter standing with a white flag. Another one standing beside him. 'Athey Family Photos.'
IDNO:
003665
Title:
UMWA Supporters Including Van Bittner and Wife
Date:
ca. 1890-1910
IDNO:
003634
Title:
Besoco, W. Va., Mine
Date:
ca. 1890
Description:
Tracks going up mountain at Besoco, W. Va.
IDNO:
003529
Title:
Baseball at Blakely Field, Welch, W. Va.
Date:
1940
Description:
People playing baseball with a crowd surrounding the field watching.
IDNO:
003668
Title:
Women Working in Garden at Barrack Village Near Fairmont, W. Va.
Date:
1926
Description:
During Unionization of Coal Company workers, miners' families were evicted from Company owned houses. The Union supplied building material and land and the miners plus others constructed temporary barracks until the labor trouble was settled. Beside the barracks, there was room for small garden plots and here they are shown working in them. See New York Times Sunday Sept. 5th Picture Section.
IDNO:
003672
Title:
Miners' Rally
Date:
1925/09/26
Description:
Large crowd possibly at Fairmont. Musicians with instruments are at the front of the crowd.
IDNO:
003545
Title:
One of W. Va.'s Most Notorious Thugs
Date:
1914/02/14
Description:
Man pointing a gun at another man.
IDNO:
002937
Title:
One of W. Va.'s Most Notorious Thugs
Date:
1914/02/14
Description:
Man holding a tripod mounted gun.
IDNO:
003615
Title:
UMWA Camp, Pardoe, Pa.
Date:
1908/08/24
Description:
Group portrait of men at a UMWA Camp.
IDNO:
003682
Title:
Barracks at Dakota, W. Va.
Description:
Laundry hanging on line near barracks in Dakota, W. Va. with railroad tracks nearby.
IDNO:
003752
Title:
Local Union No. 4010, Owings, W. Va.
Description:
Group portrait of coal miners and their families sitting outside a barrack at Owings, West Virginia coal mining town.