Empire Coal & Coke Company, tipple and loading booms, Landgraff, West Virginia – Historic Print
(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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Empire Coal & Coke Company, tipple and loading booms, Landgraff, West Virginia
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The tipple and loading booms of the Empire Coal & Coke Company at Landgraff, McDowell County, West Virginia, are the focus here. A tipple was the tall structure where mined coal was screened and dropped into railroad cars on a siding, so the picture captures the moment coal left the mine for market. Quartermaster Corps photographers recorded such sites in 1918, when the wartime economy depended heavily on coal for railroads, ships and factories. Worth noticing are the freight cars on the tracks and the booms that moved coal into them.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps photo. Jeffrey, no. 3234-C. |
| Subjects | Railroad freight cars--Virginia--McDowell County--1910-1920. Shipping--West Virginia--McDowell County--1910-1920. Coal mining--West Virginia--McDowell County--1910-1920. Mine railroads--West Virginia--McDowell County--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,117 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-166595 |
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