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Cherry Mine Disaster Survivor and Family
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Group portrait of a family. Caption reads: "W.H. Clelland and Family. One of the Cherry Mine survivers [sic]. It is this man who was said to have led the Miners in Song & Prayer, and encouraged them. He had the only lead pencil among them and made notes which have been published. He has a keen eye to business, requiring a substantial sum before consenting to pose for this picture."
November 1909
Dunham Photo
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WHi 7787
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Orphans of Mine Disaster
November 1909
Photographic postcard of a posed group of orphan children of miners from mine disaster, Nov. 13, 1909. Caption reads: "#31 Group made orphans by Cherry Mine Disaster Where 400 Men were Entombed Nov...
Mine Disaster Morgue
November 1909
Photographic postcard of funeral and tent/morgue from the Cherry Mine disaster. Caption reads: "#37 Cherry Mine Horror Showing Morgue Dunham Photo Princeton, Ill."
Oxygen Helmets
November 13, 1909
Two men in oxygen helmets outside of the Cherry, Illinois, mining disaster.
Ruins of Fan House and Escape Shaft
November 13, 1909
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.
Mine Disaster
November 13, 1909
Photographic postcard of people gathering around an air shaft of a mine in after a mining disaster. Caption reads: "(?) at Mine Disaster showing wrecked air shaft, Cherry, Ill."
Scene at Mine Disaster
November 13, 1909
Photographic postcard of an elevated view of people walking to the mine (in the distance) after a disaster. Caption reads: "Scene at Mine Disaster, Cherry, Ill."
