Montour no. 4 mine 1942a
Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company — Pittsburgh (vicinity), Pennsylvania. *Interior of a tipple where loaded coal cars are raised from the floor of the mine in an elevator called the "cage", then by means of a rotary dump the coal is emptied into railroad cars directly beneath.
- Date
- 1942-11
- Photographer / author
- Collier, John (1913-1992)
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 509 × 378 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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