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Mine Safety Training at Eagle Mine Laing No. 1. Standing Left to Right are; U.G. Carter, Director, Mining Extension Service; R.L. Robertson, Mine Foreman; Howard Thompson, Safety Director, Department of Mines; Bennett Ferguson, Mobile Class Instructor; Julius Blaney, Fireboss. Seated Left to Right, Safety Committeemen Thomas Franklin, Clinton Phipps, Bullard Richards and Daniel Bryant, Section Foreman.

1. Mine Safety Training

Miners walking from the man-trip entrance to wash house on well kept ground of Mine No. 32, Consolidation Coal Co., W. Va.

2. Miners Exiting Mine No. 32, Consolidation Coal Company

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

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

Probably was Fred Boyd Wiseman directly behind mine car (with cop. rt. arm lifted up).

4. Eccles No. 5 Miners

'The Gaston Gas Coal Company, Gaston Mine Plant. Located one half mile South of Hunsaker Bridge on West Fork River. Owned by James Otis Watson and successor to American Coal Company's mining plant, built in 1852 at the Baltimore  and Ohio Railroad Depot. This mine founded in 1875, closed in 1925. Picture shows 15 drop-bottom railroad cars called 'Hoppers.' These cars average 55 ton coal carrying capacity.'

5. Miners at Gaston Mine Plant

A photograph of Senator Hoblitzell, Jr. standing with a group of miners.

6. Senator John D. Hoblitzell, Jr. With Miners

7. Coal Miners at Work

8. Coal Miner at Work in Rosedale Coal Company

9. Coal Miners at Work in Rosedale Coal Company

10. Coal Miners at Work in Rosedale Coal Company

11. Coal Miners at Work in Rosedale Coal Company

12. Coal Miners at Work in Rosedale Coal Company