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Music: Jim Reeves – Streets of Laredo :Coal-mines in the United States 1908 to 1935 The american dream Music: Jim Reeves – Streets of Laredo
Slide 2:Hinny drivers in the BROW mine in Virginia – September 1908
Slide 3:Drillings in Virginia – October 1908
Slide 4:3 young horse and hinny drivers in Virginia – 1908 Open flame lamps on their helmet !
Slide 5:Mine in BARNESVILLE
Virginia – 1908
Slide 6:12 – 13 year old boys
Slide 7:Kerfmachine met lader in Virginia – september 1908
Haveuse chargeuse en Virginie – septembre 1908
Cutting machine with loader in Vuirginia – Septembe 1908
Kerbmaschine mit Lader in Virginia – September 1908
Slide 8:Butterfly knot please Ratcatcher – 1908 Blacksmith – 1910
Slide 9:Young greaser in the DORA JEFFERSON mine in Alabama – 1910
Slide 10:The young greaser was 14 years old an his name was Shorpy Higginbotham
Slide 11:Young pusher
Alabama 1910
Slide 12:Coal recollection on a terril
Slide 13:Rescuer with oxygen mask from Dräger (still existing company) Pennsylvania Pennsylvanie 1910
Slide 14:Travelling prisoners who repaired the roads
North Carolina – 1910
Slide 15:Children – coal sorters in Pennsylvania – 1911
Slide 16:Horse driver Pennsylvania – 1911
Slide 17:Group of young miners Pennsylvania – 1911
Slide 18:Horse and locomotive with compressed air next to each other
Pennsylvania – 1911
Slide 19:Young horse drivers
Virginia – 1911 Young trapper
Virginia – 1911
Slide 20:Responsible for the aeration gate Pennsylvania – 1911
Slide 21:Let’s work
Slide 22:Everybody has his messtin. The men with a stick are coal-trolley brakers. Many wear gloves, a surprising safety measure for that time (1911)
Slide 23:Coal sieving Pennsylvania – 1911 The boys ate sitting straight above the coal conveyor belts. In spite of the spraytubes (visible on the photo), there seems to be quite some dust (visible neat the windows).
Slide 24:Miner Kentuky – October 1935
Slide 25:Miscellaneous old photos
from the United States
Slide 26:Car accident in 1912
Slide 27:Tarzan: Johnny Weissmuller - 1922
Slide 28:Miss Beach 1922
Slide 29:Miss Beach 1928. Miss France is also present.
Slide 30:1936 Yes the potato sack cloth was already quite the thing!
Slide 31:Emigrant women with 7 children 1936
Slide 32:This girl is 12 years old
Tennessee 1936
Slide 33:Camping car
Tennessee 1936
Slide 34:Doctor’s call
Oregon 1939
Slide 35:On the dole - 1939
Slide 36:Remittance of a ration booklet
1943
Slide 37:THE END