View of mining town, Dorothy, W.Va. - Big Coal Co. – Vintage Photo Print
![View of mining town, Dorothy, W.Va. - Big Coal Co., [ca. 1910] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a4/a4a392ed4620-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of View of mining town, Dorothy, W.Va. - Big Coal Co.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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View of mining town, Dorothy, W.Va. - Big Coal Co.
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Dorothy, a coal camp in West Virginia, is the setting for this view, which the caption card attributes to the Big Coal Co. Such towns were typically built and owned by the mining companies that employed their residents, with company-owned housing, stores, and schools arranged around the mine. The date is approximate, given as about 1910, and the record notes that its details come from an unverified caption card. Even so, the picture offers a rare visual record of how these isolated settlements were laid out in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | [ca. 1910] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Wittemann Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: W.Va.--Dorothy--ca. 1910; Mining towns--W.Va.--ca. 1910; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,155 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-150751 |
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