Mrs. Leanore Miller, widow of a miner, with a picture of her husband. She said, "there's more widows and orphens in this holler than men at work". Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Company, Belva Mine, abandoned after explosion in Dec. 1945, Four Mile, Bell County, Kentucky.
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