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| Date: | 06 11 1894 |
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| Description: | Several men unload coal from barges with shovels. A row of buildings is in the background. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men use a DR-60 truck owned by J. Robert Bazley, Inc. to dump coal taken from Pennsylvania coal strippings into a chute leading to railroad cars. The m... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Front three-quarter view of an International KB-7 truck used to deliver coal by Evanston Fuel and Material Company. The truck is parked in front of railroa... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Man in a shed releases coal from a chute into the back of an International KB-11-F truck owned by the Coal Service Corporation. Another man is in the drive... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Man uses an excavator to fill an International KBS-7 dump truck with coal. Behind the excavator is a steep hill with trees on top. The coal is being handle... |
| Date: | 08 15 1938 |
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| Description: | International PA-50 power unit owned by T.E. Luman, which is housed inside a wooden building. The unit was used to generate power to run a coal cutter, lig... |
| Date: | 01 19 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men standing next to mining cars near the opening of the Beam & Merritt mine as an International PA-50 power unit is installed. |
| Date: | 10 1980 |
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| Description: | View over roads and railroad tracks of industrial silos for the Brunsell Co. Trucks are parked nearby, and warehouses are on the right. |
| Date: | 06 13 1925 |
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| Description: | International heavy duty truck (possibly a model 103) loaded with coal outside the Shera Coil and Oil Company building. In the background is a bridge and ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Two International C-55 trucks owned by the Milwaukee Western Fuel Company parked beneath a chute after being loaded with coal. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | International C-1 truck with a pickup body owned by the Fire Fuel Company is parked while a man shovels cargo from a wooden bin onto the truck bed. There a... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | An original New York Central Lines railway lithograph promoting Ashtabula Harbor, Lake Erie, as the location "Where Trainloads of Appalachian Coal are Exch... |
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| Description: | View of a coal chute with railroad tracks. On the right is a water tower. |
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| Description: | The roofs and smokestacks of the power house and hoist house of Buffington Coke Works are behind the coke ovens which are in the foreground. Buffington Cok... |
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| Description: | Semet-Solvay was founded in 1894, manufacturing coke and its by-products. Caption reads: "Semet-Solvay Coke Ovens, Lebanon, PA." |
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| Description: | Men work with the coke ovens at the coal mine. Caption reads: "Coke Manufacturing Scene, Near Bluefield, West Virginia." |
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| Description: | The Old Cornwall Charcoal Furnace was originally built by Peter Grubb in 1742, and later closed in 1883. Caption reads: "Old Charcoal Furnace, Built 1742, ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group of men from the Consolidation Coal Company pose with a McCormick grain binder and two horses in a field on the company farm. |
| Date: | 03 21 1925 |
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| Description: | Bags of coke fuel are piled on the bed of an International Model 63 truck owned by Tony Laquitana. |
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