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Coal mine town at Tams, W. Va.

2893. Gulf Smokeless Coal Company, Tams, W. Va., Winding Gulf District

IDNO:
002895
Title:
Gulf Smokeless Coal Company, Tams, W. Va., Winding Gulf District
Description:
Coal mine town at Tams, W. Va.
Filled Chesapeake and Ohio coal car in front of a group of houses at Tams, W. Va.Picture includes: Betty Jean Seals, Robert Church, Doris Williams, Marlene Dews, Leroy Messingbery, Josephine or Ernestine Hill, Whitney Hairston, Wilfred Younger, and Charlene Jennings.

2894. Beckley Coal at Tams, Raleigh County, W. Va.

IDNO:
002896
Title:
Beckley Coal at Tams, Raleigh County, W. Va.
Date:
1916/06
Description:
Filled Chesapeake and Ohio coal car in front of a group of houses at Tams, W. Va.Picture includes: Betty Jean Seals, Robert Church, Doris Williams, Marlene Dews, Leroy Messingbery, Josephine or Ernestine Hill, Whitney Hairston, Wilfred Younger, and Charlene Jennings.
Trains filled with coal file past a group of miners houses in Sprague, W. Va.

2895. Miner's Houses in Sprague, W. Va.

IDNO:
002897
Title:
Miner's Houses in Sprague, W. Va.
Date:
1948/05/11
Description:
Trains filled with coal file past a group of miners houses in Sprague, W. Va.
'View of Montcoal, the attractive up-to-date town built up around the Colcord Coal Company operations.' The picture came from the West Virginia Review, page 429, in an article titled 'A Coal Company that is a real Community Builder'.

2896. Montcoal, W. Va.

IDNO:
002898
Title:
Montcoal, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1930
Description:
'View of Montcoal, the attractive up-to-date town built up around the Colcord Coal Company operations.' The picture came from the West Virginia Review, page 429, in an article titled 'A Coal Company that is a real Community Builder'.
'Modern Y.M.C.A. and recreation building; teacherage; and consolidated school building. Carbon is where the first Y.M.C.A in a bituminous field in the U.S. was established.' Picture was taken from an article in the West Virginia Review by C.A. Cabell, President of Carbon Fuel Company, titled 'Building a Mining Community'. Picture is on page 209 of the April 1927 issue.

2897. YMCA at Carbon, W. Va.

IDNO:
002899
Title:
YMCA at Carbon, W. Va.
Description:
'Modern Y.M.C.A. and recreation building; teacherage; and consolidated school building. Carbon is where the first Y.M.C.A in a bituminous field in the U.S. was established.' Picture was taken from an article in the West Virginia Review by C.A. Cabell, President of Carbon Fuel Company, titled 'Building a Mining Community'. Picture is on page 209 of the April 1927 issue.
View of saloon in Carbon, Kanawha County.

2898. Red Rabbit Saloon at Carbon, W. Va.

IDNO:
002900
Title:
Red Rabbit Saloon at Carbon, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1926-1927
Description:
View of saloon in Carbon, Kanawha County.
View of the building that houses the Y.M.C.A. at Montcoal. Picture was taken from the West Virginia Review, Sept. 1930, in an article titled 'A Coal Company that is a Real Community Builder', page 429.

2899. YMCA at Montcoal, W. Va.

IDNO:
002901
Title:
YMCA at Montcoal, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1929-1930
Description:
View of the building that houses the Y.M.C.A. at Montcoal. Picture was taken from the West Virginia Review, Sept. 1930, in an article titled 'A Coal Company that is a Real Community Builder', page 429.
Some miners houses at Prudence, W. Va.

2900. Prudence, W. Va.

IDNO:
002902
Title:
Prudence, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1950-1960
Description:
Some miners houses at Prudence, W. Va.
View of houses that line the hilltop above the Sherwood Mine.

2901. Price Hill Fuel Company's Sherwood Mine

IDNO:
002903
Title:
Price Hill Fuel Company's Sherwood Mine
Description:
View of houses that line the hilltop above the Sherwood Mine.
Five miners with guns and buckets stop on the road in front of houses for a picture.

2902. Harlan County Coal Miners

IDNO:
002904
Title:
Harlan County Coal Miners
Date:
ca. 1930
Description:
Five miners with guns and buckets stop on the road in front of houses for a picture.
Children playing at the Cranberry playground, with a view of the town in the background.

2903. Cranberry Playground and Store, Price Hill, W. Va.

IDNO:
002905
Title:
Cranberry Playground and Store, Price Hill, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1930-1940
Description:
Children playing at the Cranberry playground, with a view of the town in the background.
Town of Scarbro in the fifties. You can see the town store, church, and the Wykle house.

2904. Town of Scarbro, W. Va.

IDNO:
002906
Title:
Town of Scarbro, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1950-1960
Description:
Town of Scarbro in the fifties. You can see the town store, church, and the Wykle house.