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Barracks

1933-1947

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Barracks
  • Title
  • Barracks
  • Creator
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. Vesta Division
  • Date
  • 1933-1947
  • Identifier
  • 9116.025.CL
  • Description
  • View of employee barracks at Richeyville, a coal company patch town that housed the workers of Vesta Coal Company's Vesta No. 4 Mine, once the largest bituminous coal mine in the world. The mine was opened circa 1903, was closed in 1957, was temporarily re-opened in 1960 and permanently closed in 1984.
  • Extent
  • 3.5 x 6 in.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Company towns
    Industrial housing
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Richeyville (Pa.)
  • Source
  • CONSOL Energy Inc. Mine Maps and Records, 1857-2010
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • CONSOL Energy, Inc. Mine Maps and Records
  • 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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