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A stark and vivid video showing the hard life of Americans in the 19th More

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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