coal mines and mining

Map of the Rio Grande and Pecos Railway showing its connections with t...

Outline map of the U.S. Southwest showing major drainage, cities and towns. Railroad lines are named and narrow gauge lines are in red. The "Cannel Coal Field" is indicated. 8159 U.S. Copyright Office Scale not... More

Map of Choctaw Nation, Indian territory, coal and asphalt segregation ...

In upper right corner: Exhibit 9. In upper left corner: Tenth annual report of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

A0271-A0272--Syracuse, NY--Clinton Street Coal Trestle under construct...

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A0250-A0252--Utica Coal Dealers [1905.09.21]

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A0676-A0681--Drifton, PA--Lehigh Valley Coal Company--Drifton Colliery...

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On the tipple at the Bessie Mine, Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. The...

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Coal miners, George Grantham Bain Collection

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: Diaries, 1845-1899; 1861, June 15-1862, May...

Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: Miscellany, circa 1846-1908; Printed matter...

Steel & Co. Ltd and the shipyard of Short Brothers

Aerial view of the factory of Steel & Co. Ltd and the shipyard of Short Brothers, Pallion, Sunderland, May 1950 (TWAM ref. DT.TUR/2/4734E). Steel & Co. produced a variety of engineering products, most notably C... More

Wearmouth Colliery, Sunderland. Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums

Aerial view of Wearmouth Colliery, Sunderland, June 1962 (TWAM ref. DT.TUR/2/29271B). This image also shows the Deptford Shipyard of Sir James Laing & Sons on the opposite side of the River...This set of aerial... More

RP F WARREN & CO COAL MERCHANT DENNIS DELIVERY LORRY TRUCK LONDON R PH...

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Kathleen Mine at Dowell, Ill. Where the Clean, Clinkerless Southern Il...

view of the Kathleen Coal Mine in Dowell

Breakman and motorman at mine portal. Inland Steel Company, Wheelwrigh...

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CALUMET PARK (FAR SOUTH SIDE) ON LAKE MICHIGAN COMMONWEALTH EDISON STA...

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Harry Fain, coal loader assembles auger which he will use in drilling ...

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Shuttle cars and tipple of mine. Colorado Fuel & Iron Corporation, Keb...

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View of the tipple. United States Fuel Company, King Mine, Hiawatha, C...

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WEST PENN POWER PLANT, NORTH OF PITTSBURGH. IT IS A VERY OLD COAL-FIRE...

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US-CO(1891) p117 PUEBLO, COLORADO COAL & IRON COMPANY

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East Broad Top Railroad & Coal Company, Machine Shop, State Route 994,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N292 Survey number: HAER PA-127-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000666

Miners going into the slope, Hazelton, Pennsylvania

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Map of part of the great Flat-top coal-field of Va. & W. Va. showing l...

Shows parts of Tazewell County, Virginia and Mercer County, West Virginia. Pen-and-ink, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H238 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.

A tipple, Gaston mine. Location: Fairmont, West Virginia.

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Mine Locomotive - National Parks Gallery

Coal miners pose on an electric-powered mine locomotive at Kaymoor; 1914

Coal miners i southern Sweden in the 1920th

Gruvarbetare i skånska kolgruvor. Gruvorna lades ner troligen 1930 men många öppnade under andra världskriget...tag: Gruvor..Photograph by: unknown..Photo Nr: 2123-8.sparvagsmuseet.sl.se ( http://sparvagsmuseet.sl.se )

Chauncy, Pennsylvania Colliery - Jan.

Artist: Lewis Wickes Hine.Artist Bio: American, 1874 - 1940.Creation Date: 1911.Process: gelatin silver print.Credit Line: Gift of Daniel D. Bumstead .Accession Number: 1985.037.017

Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: Miscellany, circa 1846-1908; Newspaper clip...

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Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: Miscellany, circa 1846-1908; Legal papers; ...

Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: Miscellany, circa 1846-1908; Financial pape...

Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: Miscellany, circa 1846-1908; Newspaper clip...

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Cleaning plant and tipple of the mines. Inland Steel Company, Wheelwri...

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Coal loading house. Coal is loaded on railroad cars or barges. Buckeye...

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CONVEYOR BELT CARRIES COAL FROM LOADED BARGES ON THE CUMBERLAND RIVER ...

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Machinist. The Pocahontas Corporation, Mines 33-34, Bishop, Tazewell C...

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Miners waiting to check out after work. Koppers Coal Division Kopperst...

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Section foreman, left, gives instructions to miners at last station. H...

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The cars, repair shop and tipple below. P V & Coal Company, Clover Gap...

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Driver unloading coal at the Blossom House

Horizontal, black and white photograph of a row of commercial buildings and a horse-drawn wagon parked against the sidewalk.Title: Driver unloading coal at the Blossom House.

On the tipple at the Bessie Mine, Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. by ...

On the tipple at the Bessie Mine, Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. These young boys work around and on these coal cars, loaded and empty, while they are running at full speed. It is dangerous. One of these boys... More

Heinitz coal mine - A black and white photo of a factory with smoke co...

Zabudowania kopalni Heinitz w Bytomiu (późniejsza KWK Rozbark, zdjęcie ze strony 84).

Cambria & Indiana Railroad, Engine House No. 1, Colver, Cambria County...

Significance: The Engine House No. 1 is part of a larger rail yard and shop complex built in the late 1910s by the Cambria & Indiana Railroad, captive railroad of the Ebensburg Coal Company. This company was o... More

East Broad Top Railroad & Coal Company, Blacksmith Shop, State Route 9...

Significance: The Blacksmith Shop, along with the Machine Shop and Foundry, was one of the three primary metalworking facilities at the East Broad Top Shop complex. Built prior to 1882, and enlarged after a fi... More

General map of the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania and adjoinin...

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More

Erie Railway, Hawley Coaling Station, Hawley, Wayne County, PA

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Map of the country tributary to the Northern Pacific Railroad, compile...

Map of northwest part of United States and southwest part of Canada showing relief by hachures, drainage, isotherms, the wheat region, cities and towns, forts, routes and trails, the railroad network and the pr... More

Tenn. Coal Iron & R.R. Co.'s furnaces at Ensley, Birmingham, Ala.

H121595 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Haines Photo Co.; January 14, 1909. Copyright claimant's address: Conneaut, O.

British coal strike - idle dock laborers, Cardiff

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Coal miners - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Coal mine idle, George Grantham Bain Collection

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Belgian women workers in coal mine

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Palmer's farm map of Brooke County, West Virginia /

Shows coal mines, oil and gas wells, and the names of some residents. Blue-line print. "This map is fully protected by copyright. No part thereof can be copied without permission." Includes explanations. Copy i... More

Coal mine tipple. Capels, West Virginia

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Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: Miscellany, circa 1846-1908; Legal papers; ...

Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: Miscellany, circa 1846-1908; Legal papers; ...

Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: Miscellany, circa 1846-1908; Legal papers; ...

Looking down River from Pallion to the Sea

Aerial view looking down the River Wear from Pallion, May 1959 (TWAM ref. DT.TUR/2/22167H)...This set of aerial images is intended as a short historical tour of the River Wear from the Piers to Pallion. It give... More

Coal staithes in the South Docks, Sunderland

No. 1 and No. 2 coal belt conveyors in operation at the South Docks, Sunderland, c1929 (TWAM ref. 3768/8). Each of these was capable of shipping 750 tons of coal per hour...This set of images celebrates the 300... More

The South Docks, Sunderland, 1948

Aerial view of the South Docks, Sunderland in May 1948 (TWAM ref. DT.TUR/2/1484F). You can see the shipyard of Bartram & Sons Ltd in the foreground and coal staithes in the background...This set of images celeb... More

Coal Miners- Everyday Life in a Midlands Colliery, England, UK, 1944 D...

Coal Miners- Everyday Life in a Midlands Colliery, England, UK, 1944 Miners at a colliery, somewhere in the Midlands, trudge through the snow following their seven and a half hour shift on their way to the chan... More

The Australian Navy during the First World War Q18753

The Australian Navy during the First World War The ship's company of the battlecruiser HMAS Australia bringing aboard coal.

At this mine the motor hauling the man trip is stopped just after it e...

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COAL IS UNLOADED FROM FREIGHTER IN CANAL ALONGSIDE THE CHARMIN PAPER C...

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GROUP OF MINERS WAITING TO GO TO WORK ON THE 4 P.M. TO MIDNIGHT SHIFT ...

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Office, power plant, and tipple of the mine. Tennessee Coal, Iron & R....

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Port Covington Terminal, Coal Pier No. 4, Baltimore, Independent City,...

Significance: The Western Maryland Railway Port Covington Coal Pier is one of the last railroad coal unloading piers in Baltimore. During the Pier's operational life (1921-1974), it went from representing the ... More

Black Country – Borinage - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne Co...

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Morris Canal, Phillipsburg, Warren County, NJ

Significance: The Morris Canal is one of the few amphibious canals to operate in the United States. Stretching from Phillipsburg on the Delaware River to Jersey City on the Hudson River, the Morris Canal opene... More

Kennecott Copper Corporation, On Copper River & Northwestern Railroad,...

Significance: Kennecott's significance lies in its quality, as well as quantity, of high grade ore. The mine also illustrates the history of world and U.S. copper between 1907 and 1938. The rise and decline o... More

[Map showing the location of Roaring Run Furnace lands in Alleghany Co...

Tipple & Elevator into shaft. Leads down to mine 200 ft. below. Gary M...

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Mine tipple in West Virginia. Typical mine tipple

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Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: Miscellany, circa 1846-1908; Printed matter...

StateLibQld 1 160302 View from River Terrace above the South Brisbane ...

View from River Terrace above the South Brisbane Coal wharves, ca. 1889. Sailing ship with barges and the steam ship, Iceburg in the middle of the photograph.

THE WOMEN'S WORK IN THE WAR PRODUCTION, 1914-1918 Q109812

THE WOMEN'S WORK IN THE WAR PRODUCTION, 1914-1918 Female gas workers of the Gas Light and Coke Company feeding coal into the hoppers.

COAL IS STOCKPILED NEAR THE POWER PLANT OF THE UNION CARBIDE FERRO-ALL...

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SOFT COAL-BURNING POWER PLANT - NARA - 543872

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WEST PENN POWER PLANT, NORTH OF PITTSBURGH. IT IS A VERY OLD COAL-FIRE...

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Closing the coal mine in Cefn-bryn-brain, Cwmllynfell (16464353856)

Teitl Cymraeg/Welsh title: Cau pwll glo yng Nghefn-bryn-brain, Cwmllynfell. Ffotograffydd/Photographer: Geoff Charles (1909-2002) Dyddiad/Date: 12/02/1959 Cyfrwng/Medium: Negydd ffilm / Film negative Cyfeiriad... More

Kraftwerk Reisholz um 1930

Deutsch: Ehemaliges Kraftwerk Reisholz in Düsseldorf, links der Reisholzer Hafen English: Power plant Reisholz in Düsseldorf, Germany

A Tipple. Location: Clarksburg, West Virginia.

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Coal mines, Frances Benjamin Johnston collection

View of a coal breaker. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Frances Benjamin Johnston, "Through the Coal Country with a Camera," Demorest's Family Magazine 27 (March 1892): 257-266.

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Coal Trestle,...

Significance: The coal trestle of the D,L & W's Scranton yards supplied coal and sand to all locomotives working on the Scranton mainline. It represents the railroad's commitment to efficient and economical ma... More

Ocean liners: John Currie - Mauretania

This photograph is taken in Canada Dock in Liverpool, 1909. The gentleman in uniform is “Mauretania’s” first Chief Engineer, John Currie. ..RMS MAURETANIA was one of the most famous ships ever built on Tyneside... More

[Coal Regions, Pennsylvania] - Early photography, Public domain image

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Ocean liners: Mauretania Build - Public domain ocean liner image

This is a view from the aft looking forward at the 'Mauretania', showing the installation of the forward coal bunkers – an original Magic Lantern slide is dated 04/04/1905...RMS MAURETANIA was one of the most f... More

Track Layout Entrance to Coal Pier, Monthly Progress Photo, Yard Labor

Photographs of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard

Coal barges on Monongahela River, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Flour mill and coal loading dock. Port of Houston, Texas

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Loading a freighter with coal at one of the three coal docks owned by ...

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O.G. Haubeil emptying coal scuttle into stove. Ross County, Ohio

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Champion no. 1 coal cleaning plan...

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Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: Writings File, circa 1846-1899; Other writi...

Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: Miscellany, circa 1846-1908; Newspaper clip...

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Arthur Henri Poole - October 30, 1901

Murphy's Saw Mills at Ferrybank, Waterford. Murphy's was a very sizeable enterprise - importing and selling coal and lumber. Fuel briquettes were made on the premises, and there was a Salt House on the complex ... More