Images of America - Early Coal Mining - B044 QuickBooks Philip Ginder kicked up a

Philip Ginder kicked up a piece of black stone that turned out to be anthracite coal

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The pictures of miners

Images of America - Early Coal Mining - B044 QuickBooks Philip Ginder kicked up aIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, underground coal mining was at its zenith and the work of miners was more grueling and dangerous than it is today. Faces blackened by coal and helmet lamps lit by fire are no longer parts of the everyday lives of miners in the region. These vintage photographs of collieries, breakers, miners, drivers, and breaker boys illuminate the dark of the anthracite mines. The pictures of miners, rooffalls,