An undated photograph of a typical colliery blacksmith shop. The location is unknown. _______________________________ Photo was published in the Republican and Herald (Pottsville, Pennsylvania) in the column “Coal Castles,” 18 […]
A photograph of the “Black Diamond,” the payroll car of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. This car made the rounds of the collieries in Schuylkill County and […]
A photograph from about 1913 of Aaron Willier hauling mine timber. The young man who is seated next to Aaron is Norman Daniel. The lumbering industry sent most of the […]
FUNERAL SUNDAY FOR QUARRY SLIDE VICTIM Funeral services for Harry D. Engle Jr., 27, of Klingerstown, who lost his life when caught in a slide of earth and rocks at […]
A photograph taken about 1910 of breaker boys at work at a colliery breaker. Note the overseer standing with what appears to by a stick in hand. The colliery is […]
An undated photograph of women picking coal at the dump banks. Location unknown – but typical of what occurred on what was the waste area of each mining operation The […]
A photograph taken late in the 19th century of breaker boys at a colliery lined up for their pay. Although this photo was said to have been taken at the […]
An undated photograph of the top man at a mine shaft, probably in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The job of the top man was to make sure that the coal cars […]