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Aerial of a Typical Company Town near Logan, West Virginia with the School at One End and the Company Store at the Other Company Towns Are Becoming a Thing of the Past 04/1974
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Clarice Brown, 19, Is a Secretary in the United Mine Workers Field Services Office in Charleston, West Virginia. Her Father Was a Miner Who Died of Black Lung Disease, Caused by Shortage of Breath as the Lung Sacs Are Filled with Coal Dust 04/1974
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Ms. Gail Falk Seltzer, a Black Lung Benefits Staff Lawyer for the United Mine Workers Field Services Office in Charleston, West Virginia 04/1974
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Aerial of Rail Yards in Danville, West Virginia, near Charleston, the Second Largest in the World behind Williamson West Virginia 04/1974
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Hiram Lilly, 84, Stands on the Porch of His Daughter's Home in Fireco, near Beckley, West Virginia. The Retired Miner Lives with Her Fireco Was Once a Great Mining Town, But the Region Has Been Mined Out 05/1974
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Otis Saunders, in His Late 80's, Suns in Front of His Home in Fireco, near Beckley, West Virginia. Like Most of the Older Men in the Area, He Is a Retired Miner. Fireco Was Once a Great Mining Town, But the Region Has Been Mined Out 05/1974
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A Tattered Blanket Hung on a Line in Fireco, West Virginia near Beckley, Symbolizes the Decline in the Area after the Coal Mines Gave Out...04/1974
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- Date taken: 1974
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Alice Thompson, Besoco, West Virginia, Is Shown with Milk Bottles Her Neighbors Furnish Her Water with after Her Water Lines Were Cut Off. She Is Divorced From a Coal Miner Who Was Imprisoned for Killing a Man 04/1974
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Automated Unloading Equipment Is Used to Transfer Coal From Barges on the Cumberland River to the Tennessee Valley Authority Steam Plant at Cumberland City, Tennessee, near Clarksville 07/1974
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This Pile of Coal Contains Part of the One Million Tons Kept on Hand by the Tennessee Valley Authority Steam Plant at Cumberland City, Tennessee, near Clarksville 07/1974
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Employees of the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company at Jasper, near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Get Ready to Play Softball at the Company's First Annual Picnic 08/1974
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Shuttle Car of Coal in a Three Foot Shaft in a Mine Owned by the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company near Jasper and Chattanooga, Tennessee 08/1974
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Alvin Elledge, Left, on the Coal Loader in a Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company Mine near Jasper and Chattanooga Tennessee. The Loader Picks Up the Coal But Does Not Cut It. Note That He Sits on a Canvas Seat That Pulls Him Along the Ground 08/1974
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Jerry Layne, Foreman of a Crew at a Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company Mine near Jasper and Chattanooga, Tennessee, Checks the Roof of a Shaft Prior to Placing a Four to Five Foot Roof Bolt in the Ceiling as a Brace...08/1974
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Miner Lee Caldwell, on a Self-Propelled Roof Bolting Machine in a Mine of the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company near Jasper and Chattanooga 08/1974
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Roof Bolter Lee Caldwell with a Bolt Used to Brace Ceilings in a Mine of the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company near Jasper and Chattanooga, Tennessee 08/1974
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The General Mine Foreman at One of the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company Mines near Jasper and Chattanooga Stands beside the Shuttle Cars Used to Transport the Miners to Work 08/1974
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This Time Exposure Picture Shows What the Miners See From the Lights of Their Shuttle Car as They Are Transported Into the Mine on Their Way to Work 08/1974
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Paul Callis, President of the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company with Headquarters at Jasper, near Chattanooga, Tennessee Talks to Miners at the First Annual Company Sponsored Picnic 08/1974
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Wayne Gipson, a Belt Loader in the Mines, Attending the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company First Annual Picnic at a Tennessee Valley Authority Lake near Jasper and Chattanooga Tennessee...08/1974
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Miners and Their Families Pass through a Food Tent Which Featured Barbecue and Complements at the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company First Annual Picnic at the Tennessee Valley Authority Lake near Jasper and Chattanooga, Tennessee 08/1974
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A Greased Pig Contest Was One of the Features of the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company First Annual Picnic Held at a Tennessee Valley Authority Lake near Jasper and Chattanooga Tennessee 08/1974
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Shirtless Youngsters Gather as Officials Smear Their Quarry for a Greased Pig Contest at the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company First Annual Picnic Held at a Tennessee Valley Authority Lake near Jasper and Chattanooga, Tennessee 08/1974
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Woman and Her Miner Husband Who Won a Dishwasher at the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company First Annual Picnic Held at a Tennessee Valley Authority Lake near Jasper and Chattanooga Tennessee 08/1974
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Closeup of Jerry Rainey, 34, Miner at the Brookside Mine Company Who Was Out on Strike in the Summer of 1974 06/1974
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Row of Miners' Homes in the Brookside Mine Company Town of Brookside Kentucky, near Middlesboro 06/1974
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Picket Line at the Brookside Mine Company in Harlan County Kentucky, near Middlesboro in the Southeastern Part of the State the Strikers Are Playing Cards on the Hood of a Car 06/1974
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Two Young People on Their Way to a High School Function in Brookside, Kentucky, near Middlesboro 06/1974
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Closeup of a Picket Sign Made by Miners on Strike Against the Brookside Mine Company in Brookside, Kentucky, near Middlesboro in the Southeast Part of the State 06/1974
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Julius Dilbeck, a Retired Miner in His Pickup Truck at Clairfield, Tennessee, North of Knoxville in Clairborne County 06/1974
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Two Miners Relaxing in a Beer Joint after Finishing Their Shift 06/1974
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A Miner Who Had Completed His Work Shift Is Shown on a Pony Belonging to the Family of the Tavern Operator 06/1974
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Miners Waiting for Their Examination at the Appalachian Regional Hospital in Beckley, West Virginia 06/1974
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A Technician at the Black Lung Laboratory in the Appalachian Regional Hospital in Beckley, West Virginia, Monitors a Miner Whose Lung Capacity Is Being Tested 06/1974
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Gary Mckenny, 5, Son of a Miner, Eats a Green Apple in Rhodell West Virginia, near Beckley 06/1974
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Jack Smith, 42, a Disabled Miner in Rhodell, West Virginia, Is Wheeled Down the Street by His Daughter, Donna, 16, to the Beer Joint He Operates 06/1974
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Donna Smith, 16, Daughter of Disabled Miner Jack Smith, From Rhodell, near Beckley, West Virginia, Rides the Family Pony with a Neighbor Seated behind Her 06/1974
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Abe Lester, a Retired Coal Miner, Lives on a United Mine Workers Pension, in Rhodell, West Virginia, near Beckley 06/1974
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The Main Street through the Small Mining Town of Rhodell West Virginia, near Beckley 06/1974
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East Gulf, One of the Large Mining Companies in the Area of Rhodell and Beckley, West Virginia 06/1974
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Miners Undergoing Tests in the Black Lung Laboratory at the Appalachian Regional Hospital in Beckley, West Virginia 06/1974
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A Technician at the Black Lung Laboratory in the Appalachian Regional Hospital in Beckley, West Virginia, Monitors a Miner Whose Lung Capacity Is Being Tested 06/1974
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A Miner at the Black Lung Laboratory in the Appalachian Regional Hospital in Beckley, West Virginia, Is Having His Lung Capacity Tested to Determine Whether He Has the Disease 06/1974
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Tony Murphy Has His Lung Capacity Tested While Walking on a Treadmill at the Black Lung Laboratory at the Appalachian Regional Hospital in Beckley, West Virginia 06/1974
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Vicki Smith, 10, Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Smith of Rhodell West Virginia, near Beckley, Stands Next to a Religious Tapestry in the Family Home 06/1974
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Small Country Town Not Related to Coal Mining near the West Virginia Turnpike North of Beckley 06/1974
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Miner Homes in a Company Town near Cabin Creek and Charleston, West Virginia 06/1974
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Youngster Takes a Hefty Swing at a Ball While Playing in the Equipment Yard of a Coal Company (Seen in Background) at Beckley West Virginia 06/1974
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View of the Town of Raleigh, West Virginia, a Suburb of Beckley Showing Some of the Homes and a Portion of the Railroad Tracks Used to Carry Coal From the Mines to Industry Throughout the Country 06/1974
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Mrs. Sharon Bowling, 25, and Son, Mark, 2, Outside Their Home in Cumberland, Kentucky. Wife of a Miner, She Is Shown Looking at the United Mine Workers Journal, Her "Bible" 10/1974
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