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• Vance, a Trapper Boy, 15 years old. Has trapped for several years in a West Va. Coal mine. $.75 a day for 10 hours work. All he does is to open and shut this door: most of the time he sits here idle, waiting for the cars to come ... (LOC)

  • Uploaded by: The Library of Congress
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  • 13 comments
  • 128 favorites
  • 76,430 views
  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2012-08-30
  • Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpnclc01076, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, boy, mines, work, working, labor, childlabor, miner, graffiti, birds, door, trapper, 1908, westvirginia
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• Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill.; C & NW RR; Roy Nelin, a box packer in the roundhouse at the Proviso yard (LOC)

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  • 4 comments
  • 122 favorites
  • 68,163 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
  • Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34674, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, roynelin, jackdelano, melrosepark, chicago, illinois, provisoyard, portrait, man, railroad, boxpacker, 1942, chicagoandnorthwesternrailwaycompany, worker, december1942, december, geo:lat=41898755, geo:long=87895153, geotagged, cookcounty, dirty, wrinkles, soot, miner, dirtyface, colorphotograph, roynelinboxpacker1942atprovisoyardil, nelinroyboxpacker1942, nelinroy1942, provisoyardil
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• Big John sign, Route 2, Iron Mountain, iron mine, Norway, Michigan (LOC)

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  • 1 comment
  • 32 favorites
  • 13,250 views
  • Date taken: 1988
  • Date uploaded: 2020-03-27
  • Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpmrg02015, miner, statue, norwaymi, bigjohn, ironmountain
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• [Unidentified man with gold mining equipment and wearing a U.S. beltplate] (LOC)

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  • 0 comments
  • 5 favorites
  • 12,301 views
  • Date taken: 1863
  • Date uploaded: 2013-06-28
  • Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpppmsca34503, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, man, standing, miner, shovel, spade, pick, tools, oval, fulllength, 1860s, 1863, veteran, union, chain, key, pan, portrait, handcolored
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• El Ray Motel sign, Route 60, Globe, Arizona (LOC)

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  • 12 favorites
  • 8,239 views
  • Date taken: 1991
  • Date uploaded: 2019-07-19
  • Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpmrg01422, elraymotel, motel, globeaz, sign, neonsign, tv, phones, wagonwheel, cactus, aaa, miner, donkey, refrigerated
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• Iron miners at work in an underground "drift", Sellers' Mine, Hibbing, Minn. (LOC)

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  • 0 comments
  • 10 favorites
  • 6,453 views
  • Date taken: 1906
  • Date uploaded: 2022-02-11
  • Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpstereo1s13479, mining, miners, mine, miner, hibbingminn, hibbingmn, hibbingminnesota, hibbing
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