These photos document the working conditions, routines, and daily realities of early coal mining communities. Long before modern machinery and safety standards, miners of all ages worked in difficult ...

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In the early 1840s, a group of businessmen in the Philadelphia area became aware of stories of untold wealth of cannel coal, a very special coal which would also yield coal oil, which existed in the ...