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This is a postcard with an image of the Anthracite Coal Mines.

This photograph shows six miners in the pump room at the Nottingham Shaft in Plymouth, Pennsylvania. Only two of the men are known and identified from the photograph. Ben Davis is standing on the far right, and Gladstone Roberts is in the back.

This is a photograph of a borer hole in Number 13 Gangway in an unidentified mine.

This postcard depicts a miner trapped under a collapsed roof at an Anthracite Coal Mine. Considering there were mining accidents and disasters that occurred in northeastern Pennsylvania, the men and boys who worked in the coal mines were exposed to…

This photograph shows seven children and one man working in a mine shaft.

This photograph shows a close up view of a switch on tracks.

This photograph shows the coal cars at the Washington Colliery, located near Plymouth, Pennsylvania.

This is a photograph of an unknown coal miner wearing an early version of the headlamp.

This image is a postcard is located in the Postcard Collection at Bishop Memorial Library. The postcard depicts a scene showing the coal mines in the Anthracite Region of northeastern Pennsylvania.

This image is a postcard that depicts coal mining in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania.