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Title: Locomotive Coaling Stations album
Date(s): 1894
Contributor(s): Link-Belt Engineering Co. (originator)
Collection ID: Locomotive Coaling Stations, Link-Belt Co. booklet of cyanotype photographs (Accession 1982.301)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_301_001
Collection: Locomotive Coaling Stations, Link-Belt Co. booklet of cyanotype photographs

Title: Third & Berks Sts. coaling station
Date(s): 1894
Contributor(s): Link-Belt Engineering Co. (originator)
Collection ID: Locomotive Coaling Stations, Link-Belt Co. booklet of cyanotype photographs (Accession 1982.301)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_301_005
Collection: Locomotive Coaling Stations, Link-Belt Co. booklet of cyanotype photographs

Title: Coaling station at New Buffalo, Michigan
Date(s): 1894
Contributor(s): Link-Belt Engineering Co. (originator)
Collection ID: Locomotive Coaling Stations, Link-Belt Co. booklet of cyanotype photographs (Accession 1982.301)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_301_004
Collection: Locomotive Coaling Stations, Link-Belt Co. booklet of cyanotype photographs

Title: 180 ton coaling station with coaling bridge
Date(s): 1894
Contributor(s): Link-Belt Engineering Co. (originator)
Collection ID: Locomotive Coaling Stations, Link-Belt Co. booklet of cyanotype photographs (Accession 1982.301)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_301_003
Collection: Locomotive Coaling Stations, Link-Belt Co. booklet of cyanotype photographs

Title: Bottom-dumping (2 ton) coal car used on coaling bridges
Date(s): 1894
Contributor(s): Link-Belt Engineering Co. (originator)
Collection ID: Locomotive Coaling Stations, Link-Belt Co. booklet of cyanotype photographs (Accession 1982.301)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_301_002
Collection: Locomotive Coaling Stations, Link-Belt Co. booklet of cyanotype photographs

Title: Conveyor belt of Mylar polyester
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Rittase, William M., 1894-1968 (photographer)
Description: Because of its strength and resistance to oils and greases, new conveyor belting made of Mylar polyester film as been adopted by many bakeries. Here the new belting carries freshly cooked doughnuts to powered sugar bin at the General Baking Company plant, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1830
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Polyester film conveyor belt at Goldenberg Candy Company
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Rittase, William M., 1894-1968 (photographer)
Description: Paper thin new conveyor belting made of Mylar polyester film provides glossy finish for chocolates at the Goldenberg Candy Company in Philadelphia PA. Shown is end of 128 foot belt which carried candies through cooling tunnel.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1827
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Uses of Mylar in candy factories
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Rittase, William M., 1894-1968 (photographer)
Description: Plaques made by joining two thin sheets of Mylar polyester film carry chocolate candies from enrober to cooling tiers at Stephen F. Whitman and Son, Inc. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Plaques are easy to keep clean because of smooth surface.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1828
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Uses of Mylar in candy factories
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Foreman watches plaques made of Mylar polyester film being conveyed upward into multi tired cooler at Stephen F. Whitman and Son, Inc. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mylar is unaffected by temperature changes and offers long service life.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1829
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Mechanical Car Loader
Date(s): 1935
Contributor(s): Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company (originator)
Description: 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 before the device was installed.
Collection ID: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs (Accession 1980.318)
Hagley ID: 80318_025
Collection: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs

Title: Electric Aids for Anthracite Mining
Date(s): 1935
Contributor(s): Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company (originator)
Description: Control station of a motorized belt conveyor line which carries newly mined coal for long distances in the workings underground.
Collection ID: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs (Accession 1980.318)
Hagley ID: 80318_022
Collection: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs

Title: Fuel from the Depths
Date(s): 1935
Contributor(s): Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company (originator)
Description: 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 resemblance to a diver at work in a sea cavern.
Collection ID: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs (Accession 1980.318)
Hagley ID: 80318_023
Collection: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs

Title: Transport Competition at Anthracite Colliery
Date(s): 1935
Contributor(s): Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company (originator)
Description: Electric railway trains and electrically driven conveyor belts are features of the world's largest anthracite breaker at Locust Summit. The mound in the background is an accumulation of non-combustible material from which Reading Anthracite is freed before it is sent out to heat millions of homes in the U. S. and Canada.
Collection ID: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs (Accession 1980.318)
Hagley ID: 80318_043
Collection: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs

Title: The Main Conveyors
Date(s): 1935
Contributor(s): Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company (originator)
Description: These belts are four feet wide and carry raw coal up an inclined plane to the top of the breaker at the rate of 1,600 tons an hour.
Collection ID: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs (Accession 1980.318)
Hagley ID: 80318_065
Collection: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs

Title: Appearance Test for Reading Anthracite
Date(s): 1935
Contributor(s): Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company (originator)
Description: As coal is conveyed to the loading bays, it is examined for appearance.
Collection ID: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs (Accession 1980.318)
Hagley ID: 80318_073
Collection: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs

Title: Final Sizing Screens
Date(s): 1935
Contributor(s): Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company (originator)
Description: Perfectly sized coal passes over the screens to rubber belt conveyors, which carry it to the loading bays.
Collection ID: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs (Accession 1980.318)
Hagley ID: 80318_072
Collection: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs

Title: Loading Mine Cars by Electricity
Date(s): 1935
Contributor(s): Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company (originator)
Description: 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.
Collection ID: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs (Accession 1980.318)
Hagley ID: 80318_024
Collection: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs

Title: The Lowering Conveyors
Date(s): 1935
Contributor(s): Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company (originator)
Description: The prepared sizes of Reading anthracite are loaded into freight cars without breakage by these devices which are electrically operated and lowered into the cars so that the coal is deposited gently and evenly. Reading anthracite rides on rubber so that dealers and consumers may receive exactly sized shipments of nature's finest fuel.
Collection ID: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs (Accession 1980.318)
Hagley ID: 80318_076
Collection: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs

Title: The Miner's Pick
Date(s): 1935
Contributor(s): Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company (originator)
Description: 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.
Collection ID: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs (Accession 1980.318)
Hagley ID: 80318_020
Collection: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs

Title: Refuse Conveyor at World's Largest Anthracite Breaker
Date(s): 1935
Contributor(s): Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company (originator)
Description: One of the huge conveyor lines which carry to the refuse bank the non-combustible material cleaned from Reading Anthracite at the Locust Summit Central Breaker before it is sent to market.
Collection ID: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs (Accession 1980.318)
Hagley ID: 80318_044
Collection: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs

Title: Loading Partly Cleaned Coal
Date(s): 1935
Contributor(s): Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company (originator)
Description: Lowering conveyors load railways cars with coal after it has been given its preliminary cleaning and sizing. These cars are sent to the central preparation plant a few miles away where the product is finally prepared for marker by the most exacting and efficient methods known to the industry.
Collection ID: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs (Accession 1980.318)
Hagley ID: 80318_038
Collection: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs

Title: Modern Transportation in an Anthracite Mine
Date(s): 1935
Contributor(s): Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company (originator)
Description: Flexible conveyor belts 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 face to points where it can be conveniently loaded.
Collection ID: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs (Accession 1980.318)
Hagley ID: 80318_021
Collection: Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company photographs