Caption: "Before a miner is allowed to enter his working place, the Fire Boss thoroughly inspects it and makes tests for gas of any other dangerous conditions. The Fire Boss in the picture is shown using the Safety Lamp which immediately reveals...
Caption: "Regional headquarters of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Co. are located in this Office Building at 200 Mahantongo St., Pottsville, Pa.
Caption: "Miners carefully dress the face of the coal seam so as to remove loose masses of foal after each explosive charge has been fired. The miner in this picture is shown making the face safe for drilling operations preliminary to another...
Caption: "Side by side with the most modern electrical installations such as the conveyor line in the background, the pick-the ancient symbol of the miner's art, still holds a place of prime utility."
Caption: "Flexible conveyor velts carry newly mined coal for great distances underground. Motor driven apparatus provide many other forms of conveyance. The cables and drums shown in the picture operate a drag line which carries coal down from the...
Caption: "A Reading Anthracite miner tending a mechanical conveyor which carries anthracite for long distances in the workings. The electric wire strung overhead the tense pose of the worker, and the general background give the scene a curious...
Caption: "Mine cars are automatically loaded by motor driven conveyor belts in mines of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. This scene is more than a thousand feet below the earth's surface at Burnside Colliery, near Samokin, Pa."
Caption: "The Coal is shoveled onto a moving belt which carries it upward and dumps it into the mine car which may be seen in the background. The miner in the background is showing how the coal had to be shoveled by hand over the top of the car...
Caption: "Deep beneath the earth's surface is this rock hewn stable for mine mules. Electric locomotives are rapidly replacing hundreds of mules is the Reading Anthracite workings, but Jenny continues to be serviceable for many tasks in the mine...
Caption: "Well equipped Hospital facilities are maintained in the Mines of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company for use in case of accident. This Hospital is hewn out of the rock in the depths of The Burnside Colliery."
Caption: "The Mine Mules recieve the best of care at collieries of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. Picture shows a bath provided for mules to keep them in condition."
Caption: "Carefully selected timber is used for keeping open many gangways, headings, and working places in mines of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. Scene at a timber bank near a mine entrance."
Caption: "A Typical Group of miners homes in the Reading Anthracite Region. These Houses are built and maintained by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Co. and are leased at low rentals."
Caption: "The mine cars which carry newly mined Reading Anthracite from the working places to the surface of preparation pass through these tracked tunnels beneath the surface. The gangways are maintained as carefully as is the way on any railroad."
Caption: "Steel and concrete structures replace timber props at many places in modernized mines of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. The high vaulted roofs reflecting the head lamps of passing trains of mine cars and the lights...
Caption: "Electric transportation is rapidly replacing the traditional mule in the mines. Motors such as are shown in this picture draw long trains of mine cars rapidly through the gangways."
Caption: "Huge elevators, known as "Cages" carry mine cars loaded with anthracite from the mine depths to the surface and return the empty cars to be reloaded. The "cages" serve five, six or seven levels in the mine--corresponding to floors of a...
