At a coal mine vein in the woods, possibly in Butler County, Kentucky, one man sits on a small cart at the top of a small loading track; one man leans one foot on the side of the track; and one man sits on the other side of track's base. Below the...
Horses and carts at a mine tipple in the woods, where the coal would be loaded and unloaded. Coal rests along a high wood track at the left of the photograph and also on a platform at the bottom of a smaller track at the right.
Nestled behind an unpainted picket fence is a one-story building with peeling white paint, old shingles, a missing window pane, and a sign above the door saying, "West Aberdeen Coal Co., Incorporated." Two men in dark clothes stand on the...
An old man wearing a torn shirt and a wide brimmed hat and holding a pickaxe stands with a boy, in suspenders or overalls and also in a hat, in front of a coal opening on Lum Drake farm. They are covered in dust. The coal opening is a stout...
A crowd of over forty men, some of them holding tools or buckets, stand in front of a coal tipple attached to the front of a simple, dark wood building. Two piles of ladders with another ladder in the middle lie on the ground in front of the crowd.
The entrance to a coal mine on the side of hill. A rail fence runs up the hill. Part of a shed, or barn, and another rail fence are seen at the foot of the hill. Handwritten on bottom border: 447. Handwriting on verso is partially obscured by...
A white horse and cart stand in front of a wood building and tipple built atop some large piles of dirt; four men stand on the pile at the right. Wood boards lie loosely around, especially at the base of the pile on the left.
A railroad exits a mine in snow-covered woods. Three mules stand on the tracks harnessed to a line of four small carts filled with coal. Eleven men stand near the carts and two men stand on a hill above.
A group of men in miners' hats with headlamps pose with a mule pulling a low cart of coal along a railroad track that exits the mouth of a mine in the snowy woods.
A group of miners, both black and white, from St. Bernard Coal Company at Martins Gap in Christian County, Kentucky. Some of the men are sitting on mules in the back row, and a few have dinner pails.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Kentucky--Social life and customs; Coal mining; Oil wells; Lumber industry; Croplands; Horse farms; Buildings; Educational facilities
Assembled in 1904 for display in the Kentucky Building at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (World's Fair) in St. Louis by the chair of the Kentucky delegation, Arthur Y. Ford, two of the albums contained 309 photographs from the Appalachian,...
Four-lane road through a rural area. A sign for the George Miller Jr. Coal Company is on the left side of the road. A house is ahead to the right. The George Miller Junior Coal Company was located at 829 South 26th Street in the Parkland...
Large electric motor with freight cars filled with coal attached to it inside a mineshaft. . A man stands between the motor and first car, possibly on the back of the motor. Wires run across the ceiling. The shaft is supported by large wood...
