Photographic print of a coal miner

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A black and white photograph of a coal miner outside the entrance to a mine. He stands in the center of the foreground; he wears a helmet with an electric light affixed to the crown. He holds a metal lunch pail to his side under his proper left arm. To his right are a line of mine carts parked on a rail leading to the mine entrance. The back of the photograph is blank.

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