This photograph from around 1900 shows a typical Check-Off House where miner safety lamps were kept on numbered, wooden pegs.
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Photo was published in the Republican and Herald (Pottsville, Pennsylvania) in the column “Coal Castles,” 3 January 1998. Contributed by Reading Anthracite Company Historical Library.
Obtained through Newspapers.com.
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