An undated color photograph post card view of the Pioneer Coal Mine Tunnel, Ashland, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The photo shows unidentified tourists standing outside and walking into the tunnel. __________________________________________ […]
An 1885 photograph of an unidentified wood coal breaker. Note the crude trackage on the car haul. From a series of articles that appeared in the Pottsville Republican and Herald in 1997: […]
A photograph taken about 1900 of miners’ safety lamps hanging on numbered pins in a colliery lamp and check off house. From a series of articles that appeared in the Pottsville […]
A photograph from 1885 showing the West Bear Gap wood breaker under construction. The Mahanoy Plane and town are in the rear. From a series of articles that appeared in […]
A photograph from around 1900 of a row of miners’ patch houses which cost about $1,000 to build and between $6 and $8 a month to rent. From a series […]
An undated colorized post card view of the entrance to an anthracite coal mine showing the elevators. Generic views like this were sold throughout the coal region. _________________________________________________ Corrections and […]
A photograph from about 1890 showing a group of workmen preparing to lower timber into the mine via the Tender Slope on the surface. From a series of articles that […]
An undated photograph of an early Philadelphia Coal & Iron Company locomotive that was used to shift cars around a coal breaker. From a series of articles that appeared in […]