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Chesapeake and Ohio and Virginian Coal Cars with a shed in the background. Taken at the Summerlee mine.

1. Coal Cars with Shed in the Background at Summerlee Mine

Coal cars beside some houses and the company store with cars in front of it.

2. Coal Cars and General Store at Summerlee Mine

Caption on back reads, 'When better coal is prepared, White Oak will load and prepare it. We are proud of this picture of a car of "White Oak" Lump coal. This picture was also taken without the knowledge of the White Oak employees who loaded it. If you drive past any of the White Oak Mines on U.S. Highway 19-21, in Fayette County, W. Va., you will see many just like it.'

3. White Oak Coal in a Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Car

4. Tipple of Lamar Colliery Company, Springton, W. Va. or Lamar, W. Va.

5. Tipple of Lamar Colliery Company, Springton, W. Va. or Lamar, W. Va.

Railroad and houses at the Summerlee Mine.

6. Summerlee Mine

'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.'

7. Miners at Gaston Mine Plant

8. Montour Railroad Cars Sitting By an Unidentified Preparation Plant

'Photo by Sara Jane Pollock, daughter of A.W. Pollock, gen. Manager of Spruce River Coal Co., whose house is the highest one in this picture.'

9. Freight Train Loaded with Miners on Way to the Front; Passing through Ramage, Boone County, W. Va.

Train on the way to the front, passing through Ramage, Boone Co. Photo by Miss Sara Jane Pollock, Daughter of A.W. Pollock, gen. mgr. of Spruce R. Coal Co., whose house is the highest in this picture.

10. Freight Train Loaded with Miners on Way to Front, Ramage, Boone County, W. Va.

A man stands atop a filled coal car. 'Loading coal into railroad gondolas is made easy by structures called 'tipples.' The pictured tipple is typical of those to be found throughout the rich bituminous coal fields of southern West Virginia.'

11. Coal Mine Tipple

Tipple and tracks with filled RR cars present.

12. Tipple at Consolidation Coal Company Williams Mine

Tipple with filled RR cars.

13. Consolidation Coal Company Fairmont Tipple

Oakwood Steel Tipple loading coal cars.  Men standing on the coal in the cars.

14. Oakwood Mine Tipple

"Mine cars with 6 to 8 tons of raw R/M moving to rotary dump -Arkwright."

15. Tipple and Coal Cars at Arkwright Mine

Filled railroad cars at the Collins Colliery Tipple. There is a water reservoir in the background.

16. Collins Colliery Tipple

Chessapeake and Ohio train cars full of coal.

17. Coal Cars at Summerlee or Cranberry, W. Va.

Coal cars going under tipple, Cranberry or Summerlee Mine.

18. Coal Tipple

Two men walking away from either Cranberry or Summerlee tipple loading coal cars.

19. Coal Tipple

Chesapeake and Ohio coal cars full of coal.

20. Loaded Coal Cars at Summerlee or Cranberry

Likely near Rosemont or Flemington, W. Va.

21. Baltimore and Ohio Coal Cars

22. Coal Cars beside Railroad Tracks, Island Creek Coal Company

23. Coal Car beside Railroad Tracks, Island Creek Coal Company

24. No. 22 Planner, Island Creek Coal Company

Male workers are standing around examining machinery in this portrait.

25. No. 22 Planner, Island Creek Coal Company

26. View of Mine No. 6, Island Creek Coal Company

27. View of Mine, Island Creek Coal Company

28. View of Mine No. 25, Island Creek Coal Company

29. View of Mine No. 25, Island Creek Coal Company

30. Back View of Mine No. 25, Island Creek Coal Company

31. Back View of Mine No. 25, Island Creek Coal Company

32. View of Mine No. 26, Island Creek Coal Company

33. View of Mine No. 26, Island Creek Coal Company

34. Back View of Mine No. 26, Island Creek Coal Company

35. View of Mine No. 26, Island Creek Coal Company

36. View of a Mine, Island Creek Coal Company

37. View of a Mine, Island Creek Coal Company

38. Tipple, Mine No. 27, Island Creek Coal Company

39. Down Stream View of Furnace Foundation Piers and Walls, Island Creek Coal Company

40. View of Excavation for Footers, Island Creek Coal Company

41. Tipple, No. 27, Island Creek Coal Company

42. Tipple, Island Creek Coal Company

43. Tipple No. 27, Island Creek Coal Company

44. Tipple, Mine No. 24, Island Creek Coal Company

45. Workers Loading a Coal Car, Mine No. 26, Island Creek Coal Company

On the front: "Loading coal cars at mine in West Virginia."

46. Loading Coal Cars, No. 22, Island Creek Coal Company