Coal miners at Birmingham, Alabama, February 1937 – Historic Print
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Step back in time with Coal miners at Birmingham, Alabama, February 1937, a historic image rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Coal miners at Birmingham, Alabama, February 1937
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Coal miners at Birmingham, Alabama, in February 1937 were photographed at a time when the mining districts around the city were among the most contested workplaces in the South. Birmingham sat at the center of the Alabama coalfields, and its mines and the company towns that surrounded them had long been marked by low wages, dangerous conditions and tight control by mine owners. The United Mine Workers of America was pushing to organize Southern miners in the mid-1930s, and images like this one were often made to document working life for government programs and the press. Looking closely at the men's clothing, tools and faces offers a direct view of the labor conditions that fueled those organizing drives.
| Original scan | 4,854 × 3,997 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15602_CoalminersBirminghamAlabama |
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