The album contains photographs taken during an inspection trip made by a party from the Coal Lands Securities Company to properties in West Virginia owned by the Lackawanna Coal and Lumber Company and the Highland Lumber Company. This trip was made...
Accompanying caption: "Note lay of the ore - nearly vertical at this point. General dip is about 45 degrees, while on part of the property it lays in blanket formation."
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...
A line of loaded mine cars awaiting their turn on the weighing machine preliminary to being dumped at the head house of the Reynolds tipple; and one of the Company's modern electric hauling locomotives returning the mine after bringing out a train...
Handwritten on back: "Hauling ore from the mine, which unfortunately belongs to former lessees. Two teams of eight horses each & two wagons each. Mexican drivers."
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: "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: "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...
Originally called the Westmoreland Shaft Mine, it was located in Biddle, which is now a section of Westmoreland City in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The mine operated from ca. 1872 until 1955.
New tipple at the Reynolds Mine; a typical example of improvements being made by the Paint Creek Collieries Company in remodeling its coal operations. West Virginia.
Handwritten on back: "Yours sincerely at Sabino Canyon - I guess I shall have to hook up my suspenders a notch - also reduce my lower chest but think I must have leaned backwards. Really don't think I am curved so much - hope not."
