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 Post subject: Coal mining photographs.
PostPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 5:24 pm 
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Just a few photos that I've found around.


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 Post subject: Re: Coal mining photographs.
PostPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 5:27 pm 
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The first one is Welsh miners from an old woodcut.


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File comment: I wonder how many explosions those open flame lights caused?
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 Post subject: Re: Coal mining photographs.
PostPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 5:30 pm 
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Dirty dangerous work.


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 Post subject: Re: Coal mining photographs.
PostPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 5:59 pm 
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Hat's off to those brave individuals that risk life and limb down in the deep places of the world.


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 Post subject: Re: Coal mining photographs.
PostPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 9:25 pm 
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Great pictures. I've got a few of those in my archives. The one with the guy setting in the wheel barrow I think was staged. There are several different versions/poses of that one floating around.

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 Post subject: Re: Coal mining photographs.
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Here's a cool picture

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 Post subject: Re: Coal mining photographs.
PostPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 10:21 pm 
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a couple of those look like Lewis Hine pictures.

(fun fact. Hine was born not far from where I grew up)


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 Post subject: Re: Coal mining photographs.
PostPosted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 9:56 am 
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You are correct Welder Dave. There are a couple of Hine pictures above.

Here is another...

A young leader and a driver, Shaft #6, Pennsylvania Coal Company mine at Pittston. Pasquale Salvo and Sandy Castina. January 1911. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.


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 Post subject: Re: Coal mining photographs.
PostPosted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 10:06 am 
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ngunderground wrote:
Great pictures. I've got a few of those in my archives. The one with the guy setting in the wheel barrow I think was staged. There are several different versions/poses of that one floating around.


Could be, that was taken by photographer Earl Palmer. He traveled around Appalachia in the early to mid 1900's documenting everything from coal miners to school kids & farm life.

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