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Title: Coal Mining
Dates: 1922-1968
Collection Number: 00081
Quantity: 70 items
Abstract: Coal mining images from Beulah, Hazen, and Zap.
Provenance: Unknown
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PHOTOGRAPHS INVENTORY
00081-01 Man driving four-horse team pulling a wagon with sign, ‘Century of Progress’
00081-02 Five men inside Runion Garage
00081-03 Miners wearing respirators outside entrance to Knife River Coal Mine
00081-04 Mike Held inside a store
00081-05 Coal mining shovel
00081-06 Men in overcoats and hats outside a building
00081-07 Men and automobile outside pool hall, Wear-U-All, and General Merchandise Store
00081-08 Coal miners in hard hats beside coal cars pulled by mule
00081-09 George Easton and two men on a coal car in underground mine
00081-10 Conveyor belt inside mine
00081-12 Miners leading horse and cart out of mine
00081-13 Miner riding on low horse drawn cart in mine
00081-14 Display of military portraits
00081-15 Men riding in coal shovels
00081-16 – 21 North American Coal Corp. truck May 1968
00081-23 Horse pulling coal cars, Lucky Strike Mine, Zap. N.D.
00081-24 Men and horse drawn coal cars, Lucky Strike Mine, Zap. N.D.
00081-25 Train on snowy track, at Depot, Zap. N.D.
00081-26 Panorama of Hazen, N.D.
00081-27 Birds Eye View of Beulah, N.D. 1922
00081-28 Tom Ferrington and son in store
00081-29 Man standing by coal car
00082-30 Three men by tracks
00081-31 – 33 Steam shovel
00081-34 – 36 Steam shovel, Zap Collieries Co.
00081-37 Line of coal cars
00081-38 – 50 Steam shovel
00081-51 36,000 tons in this section
00081-52 Coal cars at the tipple
00081-53 Cleaning the coal bed
00081-54 Ready for the steam shovel
00081-55 A car load of nut screen
00081-56 Sections of loading pit
00081-57 Early drag line, Dakota Collieries Co.
00081-58 The Osgood Co., Marion Ohio steam shovel
00081-59 – 60 Coal cars at the tipple
00081-63 Miners outside entrance to Knife River Coal Mine
00081-64 – 67 Steam shovel
00081-70 Tipple
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