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Ripper-Type Continuous Miner Machine

1946/1963

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Ripper-Type Continuous Miner Machine
  • Title
  • Ripper-Type Continuous Miner Machine
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B030.F41.I04
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B030.F41.I04
  • Description
  • Caption on the back of the photograph reads, “Ripper-type continuous miner rips coal from the face at the rate of about 10 tons per minute. This machine is working in the famous Pittsburgh Seam, reputedly the richest single mineral deposit in the world.”
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Coal-mining machinery.
    Coal mines and mining.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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