West Mine, West Frankfort, Illinois. Now abandoned. This mine has... |
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Options: 1) Download Source Image from Library of Congress 2) If link above doesn't work, try alternate LOC link 3) Report broken link TITLE:West Mine, West Frankfort, Illinois. Now abandoned. This mine has been down about a year. General caption: Many of the miners displaced by machinery in the larger mines are left stranded after mines are abandoned; have opened shallow primitive workings on the coal seam where it occurs close to the surface. The output of these shallow mines, known locally as gopher holes, is processed by a crude method and sold to truckers at about half the price of deep-vein coal. Many of the gopher holes have no storage in the tipple, and the miners underground are idle when no truck is waiting at the chute to load coal. Wages of gopher hole miners run from seventy-five cents to five dollars per day, and many miners earn less than WPA (Works Progress Administration) workers. Some of the larger gopher holes, such as Blue Ribbon Number 2 at Spillertown, Williamson County, are better equipped, pay better wages, and produce as high as 40,000 tons a year CALL NUMBER:LC-USF34- 026940-D [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USF34-026940-D (b&w film neg.) MEDIUM:1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller. CREATED/PUBLISHED:1939 Jan. CREATOR: Rothstein, Arthur, 1915- photographer. NOTES: Title and other information from caption card. LOT 1099 (Location of corresponding print.) Use electronic surrogate. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. Film copy on SIS roll 20, frame 2240. TOPICS: West Frankfort--Illinois SUBJECTS: United States--Illinois--Franklin County--West Frankfort. FORMAT: Safety film negatives. PART OF:Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:(intermediary roll film) fsa 8b17443 CARD #:fsa2000008350/PP
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