Coal Mining

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Stealing coal from railroad coal-yard. Location: Boston, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Stealing coal from railroad coal-yard. Location: Boston, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Stealing coal from railroad coal-yard. Location: Boston, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

15-year old office boy in office of N.Y., N.H. & H.R.R. coal yard. Location: Boston, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Coal feeders on tip of coke ovens, Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Mich.

A greaser in a Coal Mine. See 1835. Location: Bessie Mine, Alabama.

Tipple Boy and Drivers. Maryland Coal Co. Mine, near Sand Lick, Grafton, W. Va. Boy with mule was afraid at first to be in the picture: another boy said he feared we might make him go to school. Location: Grafton, West Virginia.

Drivers in a Coal Mine Co. Plenty boys driving and on tipple. No trappers used, as mine is ventilated by another system. Location: West Virginia.

Brown Mine. Man digging coal by machinery low ceiling: scales off and drops. Location: Brown, West Virginia.

Entrance to a W. Va. coal mine: a "drift" mine. The live-wire was only shoulder -high in places inside, and unprotected. Location: West Virginia.

Machine used in Gary W. Va. mine that digs the coal and loads it on the car. With it 3 men can do the work of 50 in the old way. Yet they use boys to drive and trap. Location: Gary, West Virginia.

Subject -Coal. #70 Welch Mining Co., Welch W. Va. Boy running "trip rope" at tipple. Overgrown, but looked 13 yrs. old. Worked 10 hours a day. Location: Welch, West Virginia.

Baltimore -- B & O Coal Pier

Government coal wharf, Alexandria, Va.

Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yards, Chicago, Ill.

General view of part of the Proviso yard of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, Chicago, Ill. In the background is the coal chute and roundhouse

Servicing engines at coal and sand chutes at Argentine yard, Santa Fe R.R., Kansas City, Kansas

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Truckman who delivers coal

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Mich. Coal tower atop coal ovens

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Mich. Coal tower atop coke ovens

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Coporation, stock pile of coal and iron ore, Detroit, Mich.