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Grocery store window with advertisements for 'fancy and staple groceries' sold inside.

1. Model Grocery Store Window

IDNO:
004486
Title:
Model Grocery Store Window
Description:
Grocery store window with advertisements for 'fancy and staple groceries' sold inside.
View of Glen Jean Athletic Club building and nearby dentist's office. 'Near Treveys Studio. Trevey's negatives were stored in the attic of this building after he closed his studio. McKell Ballfield on left, famous for a type of softball called Letemhitit. Insurance agency on right operated by James Long. Railroad is the K. G. J. [and] E. (Kanawha, Glen Jean, and Eastern). Athletic building contained a pool room, bowling alley, etc.'

2. Glen Jean Athletic Club, Glen Jean, W. Va.

IDNO:
004488
Title:
Glen Jean Athletic Club, Glen Jean, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
View of Glen Jean Athletic Club building and nearby dentist's office. 'Near Treveys Studio. Trevey's negatives were stored in the attic of this building after he closed his studio. McKell Ballfield on left, famous for a type of softball called Letemhitit. Insurance agency on right operated by James Long. Railroad is the K. G. J. [and] E. (Kanawha, Glen Jean, and Eastern). Athletic building contained a pool room, bowling alley, etc.'
'Second Collins Colliery Store, Glen Jean. Replaced almost identical store, which burned in 1900. New store built by Philip Snyder Construction Co., which built original.'

3. Second Collins Colliery Store, Glen Jean, W. Va.

IDNO:
004491
Title:
Second Collins Colliery Store, Glen Jean, W. Va.
Description:
'Second Collins Colliery Store, Glen Jean. Replaced almost identical store, which burned in 1900. New store built by Philip Snyder Construction Co., which built original.'
African-American miners with picks and shovels and a horse drawn cart stand in front of a large pile of boulders.

4. Miners and Horse Drawn Cart

IDNO:
004492
Title:
Miners and Horse Drawn Cart
Description:
African-American miners with picks and shovels and a horse drawn cart stand in front of a large pile of boulders.
Two men standing in front of a newly constructed tunnel.

5. Railroad Tracks Lead into a Recently Completed Tunnel

IDNO:
004494
Title:
Railroad Tracks Lead into a Recently Completed Tunnel
Description:
Two men standing in front of a newly constructed tunnel.
Men stand around as filled coal cars arrive as empty ones leave at this tipple at Dothan, W. Va. House in the background is still standing in 2005.

6. Miners and Coal Cars on Tipple at Dothan, W. Va.

IDNO:
004495
Title:
Miners and Coal Cars on Tipple at Dothan, W. Va.
Description:
Men stand around as filled coal cars arrive as empty ones leave at this tipple at Dothan, W. Va. House in the background is still standing in 2005.
Miners on the K. G. J. & E. tunnel construction crew stand at the tunnel entrance between Mt. Hope and Pax, W. Va.

7. Kanawha Glen Jean and Eastern Railroad Tunnel Construction Crew Working on Tunnel between Mt. Hope and Pax, W. Va.

IDNO:
004496
Title:
Kanawha Glen Jean and Eastern Railroad Tunnel Construction Crew Working on Tunnel between Mt. Hope and Pax, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Miners on the K. G. J. & E. tunnel construction crew stand at the tunnel entrance between Mt. Hope and Pax, W. Va.

8. Miners Boarding Shuttle Car

IDNO:
004497
Title:
Miners Boarding Shuttle Car
Two women pumping water into a bucket beside a house.

9. Miner's Wives Pumping Water

IDNO:
004498
Title:
Miner's Wives Pumping Water
Description:
Two women pumping water into a bucket beside a house.
Miners sit and stand outside of the New River Coal Company Prudence No. 1 Mine located 4 miles from Thurmond, Fayette County, W. Va. '1906 or after.'

10. Miners Outside New River Coal Company No. 1 Mine at Prudence, W. Va.

IDNO:
004499
Title:
Miners Outside New River Coal Company No. 1 Mine at Prudence, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1906-1920
Description:
Miners sit and stand outside of the New River Coal Company Prudence No. 1 Mine located 4 miles from Thurmond, Fayette County, W. Va. '1906 or after.'
Men standing amongst the remains of a Chesapeake and Ohio railraod car and other train wreckage on hte railway between Glen Jean and Thurmond, W. Va.

11. Train Wreckage on Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Between Glen Jean and Thurmond, W. Va.

IDNO:
004500
Title:
Train Wreckage on Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Between Glen Jean and Thurmond, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Men standing amongst the remains of a Chesapeake and Ohio railraod car and other train wreckage on hte railway between Glen Jean and Thurmond, W. Va.
Young boy holding two copies of the newspaper The Miner's Herald. Headline reads: 'Miners! Do Not be deceived. Terrible strike is in Colorado.'

12. Young Boy Holding Miner's Herald Newspapers Announcing Strike

IDNO:
004501
Title:
Young Boy Holding Miner's Herald Newspapers Announcing Strike
Date:
undated
Description:
Young boy holding two copies of the newspaper The Miner's Herald. Headline reads: 'Miners! Do Not be deceived. Terrible strike is in Colorado.'