Entering the mine
- Image
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- Created Date
- 1966-1976
- Description
A miner enters the mouth of a "low coal" underground coal mine. He is wearing gloves and a hardhat and carring a lunch pail. Tracks lead out of entry that carry coal hauling cars. "U2" written on verso.
Donated by the Horrell family to SCRC after the photographer's death, 1989.
- Creator
Horrell, C. William
- Contributing Institution
- Southern Illinois University Carbondale
- Subjects
- Coal mines and mining -- Illinois -- Photographs
Coal miners -- Illinois -- Photographs
Coal mining
Coal miners
Mine railroads
Gates - Type
- image
- Format
- Gelatin silver printPhotograph: Black and white
- Rights
- Copyright holder is unknown. For permission to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use this image, please contact the Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Phone: + 1 (618) 453-2516. Email: https://7009.sydneyplus.com/final/Portal/EndUserRequestForm.aspx?lang=en-US
- Chicago citation style
- Horrell, C. William. Entering the mine. 1966-1976. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p17coll3/id/125. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Horrell, C. William, (1966-1976) Entering the mine. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p17coll3/id/125
- MLA citation style
- Horrell, C. William. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p17coll3/id/125>.