Railroad Construction Crew
- Categories
- Appalachian Collections > William O. Trevey Glass Slide Collection
- Subject
- Coal Mining--West Virginia
- Coal--Transportation--West Virginia
- Coal-mining machinery--Transportation
- Creator
- Trevey, William O.
- Type
- glass slide
- Coverage - Temporal
- 1895-1925
- Identifier
- N-0016 railroad construction.jpg
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Radford University. McConnell Library. Archives & Special Collections
- Description
- Mostly African American railroad constructon crew with shovels and a horse drawn cart. iFrom studio portraiture to candid location shots, the William O. Trevey Glass Slide Collection documents the daily lives and labor of coal miners, primarily in the New River Coal Fields of southern West Virginia, at the turn of the Twentieth Century.
- Rights
- Materials in the William O. Trevey Glass Slide Collection are in the public domain. No copyright permissions are needed. Acknowledgement of Archives & Special Collections, McConnell Library, Radford University as a source for borrowed images is requested.