Two miners ready to leave entrance of coal mine near Scranton, PA. – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Two miners ready to leave entrance of coal mine near Scranton, PA.
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Two miners stand at the mouth of a coal mine near Scranton, Pennsylvania, in this April 1912 glass negative, caught as they prepare to head out of the workings. The Scranton area was the heart of the anthracite region, where generations of men descended into hard-coal shafts for long, dangerous shifts. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the archive of the Bain News Service, a Manhattan agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers across the country in the early twentieth century. The title is taken from caption data the agency recorded, so the exact identity of the mine and the men is not confirmed.
| Created / published | April, 1912. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,273 × 5,866 px · prints to 14 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-4449 |
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