Lot 272v
2
January 22, 2019
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272 •(COAL MINING) Album with 70 photographs depicting the range of machines required for coal mining operations.
With stand-alone pictures of coal drills, mine pumps, conveyors, room hoists, concerte mixers, locomotives, car loaders, and air compressors, plus shearing-drilling, slabbing, arcwall mining, loading dig, and rock-dusting machines. Silver prints, the images measuring 7x8½ inches (17.8x21.6 cm.), the mounts 8½x10½ inches (21.6x26.7 cm.), mounted recto only, most with an inventory number in the negative, and each with a typewritten caption and inventory number on mount recto. Oblong 4to, black leatherette; twin-bolt binding. 1914-29
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