Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Visitors, dressed in their Sunday best, contrast with the rough garb of the miners. Left to right, miners were: Charles Kanass, Robert "Beaver" Smith (hold... |
Date: | 11 13 1909 |
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Description: | Two men in oxygen helmets outside of the Cherry, Illinois, mining disaster. |
Date: | 11 13 1909 |
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Description: | The ruins of the fan house and escape shaft after a mining disaster at Cherry mine. A group of men and children are standing in the foreground. |
Date: | 11 18 1909 |
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Description: | Miners building a temporary hoisting apparatus after the November 13, 1909, disaster at Cherry mine in Illinois where 400 men were entombed. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Interior of a lead mine. The five miners are holding candles or lanterns. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Advertisement from catalog featuring an illustration of the Jones Chain Mower, and a man using it in a field with a team of horses. Around the border are i... |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | View down set of two railroad tracks towards four coal miners posing in front of a mine entrance near a coal car. The caption in the book reads, "Strike-br... |
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