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Coal dropping from a chute into a bin to be processed.

1. Coal Being Processed

IDNO:
002134
Title:
Coal Being Processed
Description:
Coal dropping from a chute into a bin to be processed.
Coal in cars inside of a plant being processed.

2. Coal Being Processed

IDNO:
002135
Title:
Coal Being Processed
Description:
Coal in cars inside of a plant being processed.
Bone pickers at a Pocahontas coalfield tipple.

3. Bone Pickers in Action at a Pocahontas Coal Field Tipple

IDNO:
003153
Title:
Bone Pickers in Action at a Pocahontas Coal Field Tipple
Description:
Bone pickers at a Pocahontas coalfield tipple.
Miners at work after installing mercury vapor lights over picking table at McComas, W. Va., American Coal Co.

4. Miners at Picking Table After Installion of Mercury Vapor Lights Overhead, American Coal Company, McComas, W. Va.

IDNO:
003164
Title:
Miners at Picking Table After Installion of Mercury Vapor Lights Overhead, American Coal Company, McComas, W. Va.
Description:
Miners at work after installing mercury vapor lights over picking table at McComas, W. Va., American Coal Co.
Coal moving across three vibrating screens.

5. Double-Deck Vibrating Screens

IDNO:
003199
Title:
Double-Deck Vibrating Screens
Description:
Coal moving across three vibrating screens.
'It is any wonder White Oak is said to be the best prepared domestic coal marketed from W. VA., when you look at this picture of White egg coal taken as it is being loaded inot a a railroad car? Perfectly sized; perfectly screened and quality unsurpassed. No wonder it is the most popular sized coal sold in the domestic market.'

6. Loading Perfectly Sized White Egg Coal

IDNO:
003200
Title:
Loading Perfectly Sized White Egg Coal
Date:
undated
Description:
'It is any wonder White Oak is said to be the best prepared domestic coal marketed from W. VA., when you look at this picture of White egg coal taken as it is being loaded inot a a railroad car? Perfectly sized; perfectly screened and quality unsurpassed. No wonder it is the most popular sized coal sold in the domestic market.'
'The size and design of the shaker screens now in use at the White Oak mines are the best that an experience of twenty years in preparing Smokeless Coal has found to be the best and yield a satisfactory screened and sized coal. A screen must first be of ample size to take care of the amount of tonnage passing over it, because of crowding and overloading a screen results in poorly screened and poorly sized coal. The screen shown in this picture is handling 400 tons per hour and still has ample screening space to spare. The flow of coal over these White Oak shaker screens is controlled by a feeder which cannot be become stopped up by coal sticking in the slots because the slots are wider at the base than at the top and are therefore self clearing. The lips keep the coal turning over and over so it is impossible for slack to ride over on the larger pieces. The coal never falls; it is always sliding while being screened which helps prevent breakage. Note the uniform size and firm character of the lump coal which has passed over the egg screen shown in this picture.'

7. Shaker Screens

IDNO:
003201
Title:
Shaker Screens
Description:
'The size and design of the shaker screens now in use at the White Oak mines are the best that an experience of twenty years in preparing Smokeless Coal has found to be the best and yield a satisfactory screened and sized coal. A screen must first be of ample size to take care of the amount of tonnage passing over it, because of crowding and overloading a screen results in poorly screened and poorly sized coal. The screen shown in this picture is handling 400 tons per hour and still has ample screening space to spare. The flow of coal over these White Oak shaker screens is controlled by a feeder which cannot be become stopped up by coal sticking in the slots because the slots are wider at the base than at the top and are therefore self clearing. The lips keep the coal turning over and over so it is impossible for slack to ride over on the larger pieces. The coal never falls; it is always sliding while being screened which helps prevent breakage. Note the uniform size and firm character of the lump coal which has passed over the egg screen shown in this picture.'
A miner standing near a raw coal conveyor belt.

8. Raw Coal Conveyor Belt

IDNO:
003261
Title:
Raw Coal Conveyor Belt
Description:
A miner standing near a raw coal conveyor belt.
Coal loading into a wash tub.

9. Washing Coal with the Chance Cone System, Williams Preparation Plant, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

IDNO:
003263
Title:
Washing Coal with the Chance Cone System, Williams Preparation Plant, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company
Description:
Coal loading into a wash tub.

10. Deister Table Cleaning Slack Coal, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

IDNO:
003268
Title:
Deister Table Cleaning Slack Coal, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company
'One of the places where the automatic sampler with its grinding mill operates.'

11. Williams Preparation Plant, Consolidation Coal Company

IDNO:
003270
Title:
Williams Preparation Plant, Consolidation Coal Company
Description:
'One of the places where the automatic sampler with its grinding mill operates.'
Coal is coming down a conveyor belt to be processed.

12. Coal On Conveyor

IDNO:
003274
Title:
Coal On Conveyor
Description:
Coal is coming down a conveyor belt to be processed.