Miner taking down Slate

1907

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Miner taking down Slate
  • Title
  • Miner taking down Slate
  • Identifier
  • MSP33.B009.F01.I17
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP33.B009.F01.I17
  • Description
  • A miner in a Vesta Coal Company mine. During this period miners dug coal with picks (under the miner’s arm) and shovels, and loaded it into wagons that were pulled by mules. Other tools used by the typical miner during the early part of the twentieth century were slate bars (pictured here) to pry down loose rock, a spiking hammer to drive little spikes in the rails when laying track, and ax to prepare posts and timber, a sledge hammer to pry down heavy rock and break it up into small pieces, a two-man saw to cut posts and timber, and a file to sharpen the auger bit. The Vesta No. 4 Mine, which employed about 1,900 people, contained over 100 miles of track and each trip of loaded cars arriving at the tipple contained approximately 500 tons of coal.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Vesta Coal Company.
    Coal mines and mining.
    Coal miners.
    Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.
  • Source
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Collection Photographs, 1864-1953, MSP 33, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Photographs
  • Rights Information
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