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Anthracite Mining Photographs

The Colliery and Transportation
Immigrant Miners and Patch Village Life

The Colliery and Transportation

Chutes_Ba36C631a LOGODown Among the Coal Mines—Chutes Loading the Canal-Boats on the Lehigh Canal
WeighCargo_Ba36c631 LOGODown Among the Coal Mines—Weighing the Cargoes in the Weigh-Lock on the Lehigh Canal
DriftonBreaker_CoxeGr4_Box1037.3.3. LOGODrifton Breaker
Colliery_CoxeGr LOGOPennsylvania Anthracite Colliery
coal shovel LOGOCoal shovel and strip mine, circa 1950s

Immigrant Miners and Patch Village Life

MinersStClair_Balch266.6xxc LOGOSlovak immigrant mine workers inside mine, St. Clair, PA (circa 1924). Extreme right: John Slopovsky Sr. Born in Czechoslovakia (then Austria-Hungary), Dec. 1903. Emigrated 1912. Others unidentified.
PatchSlovak_45.3c LOGOPatch town and Slovak coal miners, Pennsylvania, village unidentified
Slovakminers_45.4c LOGOSlovak coal miners, Pennsylvania, village unidentified
MenWomPorch_45.1 LOGOSlovak coal miners and women on porch, Pennsylvania, village unidentified
Slovakfamilies_45.2c LOGOSlovak coal miners and families, Pennsylvania, village unidentified Polish immigrants; some in folk dress. St. Clair, PA
PolFolkStClair_266.9 LOGOPolish immigrants; some in folk dress. St. Clair, PA 

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