Image Gallery - Working Where the Sun Never Shines
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Shoveling and Drilling for Blast, western Pennsylvania, circa 1910.
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Miner Loading Coal by Hand
"Oh yes, [some would go for weeks without... |
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Miners install beams to hold up the coal mine ceiling
Lattimer Massacre
Workers install beams... |
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Injured coal miner being treated at the mine hospital
Lattimer Massacre
Injured miner being... |
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Soft coal miners return to work, Red Lion, PA, June 1, 1946.
After the end of a no-strike pledge agreed... |
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Miners preparing for entry into a bituminous mine, southwestern PA, circa 1910.
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Pat Fagan, UMW District 5 leader, addressing gathering of miners in the mid-1930s.
A tough union organizer who once defended... |
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A miner and his mules at a Coal Mine Entrance.
A miner and his mules at a Coal Mine Entrance. |
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The H.C. Frick Coal and Coke Corporation's Edenborn Mine after shooting of 12 coal strikers, outside Brownsville, PA., November, 1941.
Still attempting to recover from the Great... |
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A Miner Reacts to a Newspaper Headline, Coverdale, Pa., April 19, 1948.
"Valentine Dolenc, 65-year-old miner, indicates... |
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Miners Eating Lunch
Miners Eating Lunch |
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Mining Check System
Miners usually had two checks with the same... |
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Longwall Equipment in Operation
Longwall Equipment in Operation |
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Loaded Cars Going Out of Mine. ca. 1907
A coal car known as a "wagon" was... |
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Five Coal Miners with Breathing Apparatus and Canary Cage
Coal miners test the air quality in the mine. |
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Coming Out of the Mine
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