Coal Miners
- Categories
- Appalachian Collections > William O. Trevey Glass Slide Collection
- Subject
- Coal Miners--West Virginia
- Coal--Appalachian Mountains
- Coal mines and mining
- Creator
- Trevey, William O.
- Type
- glass slide
- Coverage - Temporal
- 1895-1925
- Identifier
- N-0108 Miners underground.jpg
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Radford University. McConnell Library. Archives & Special Collections
- Description
- A photograph of two miners working underground showing coal carts filled with coal. The man on the right is purported to be Henry West, Fayette County magisitrate. From 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. (COAL025)
- 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.