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Landslide
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- Vail, Willis W., 1868-1951
Landslide
Workmen clear a landslide on the tracks of the Southside Extension. The Willis W. Vail Glass Slide Collection is one of three significant collections of mine-related photography aggregated in the George and Melody Bragg New River Coal Fields Photographic Collections housed in Archives & Special Collections in Radford University's McConnell Library. Employed primarily as a surveyor in the years 1890-1896, Willis W. Vail (1868-1951) documented through photography the towns and scenery of the New River Gorge mining companies, especially in Raleigh, Fayette, and McDowell Counties.
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- Vail, Willis W., 1868-1951
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C&O Railroad
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- Vail, Willis W., 1868-1951
C&O Railroad
Engineers camp, C&O Railroad, Southside. The Willis W. Vail Glass Slide Collection is one of three significant collections of mine-related photography aggregated in the George and Melody Bragg New River Coal Fields Photographic Collections housed in Archives & Special Collections in Radford University's McConnell Library. Employed primarily as a surveyor in the years 1890-1896, Willis W. Vail (1868-1951) documented through photography the towns and scenery of the New River Gorge mining companies, especially in Raleigh, Fayette, and McDowell Counties.
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- Vail, Willis W., 1868-1951
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Miners
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- Trevey, William O.
Miners
Miner standing at a drift mouth with a coal cart he loaded by hand. 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.
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- Trevey, William O.