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Hurricane Damage

July 27, 1936

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Hurricane Damage
  • Title
  • Hurricane Damage
  • Creator
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. Vesta Division
  • Date
  • July 27, 1936
  • Identifier
  • 9116.050.CL
  • Description
  • View of two boys inspecting damage caused by a hurricane to their coal shed and chicken house. Richeyville, a coal company patch town, housed the workers of Vesta Coal Company's Vesta No. 4 Mine, once the largest bituminous coal mine in the world. The mine was opened circa 1903, was closed in 1957, was temporarily re-opened in 1960 and permanently closed in 1984.
  • Extent
  • 3.5 x 6 in.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Dwellings
    Hurricane damage
    Children
    Chickens--Housing
    Company towns
    Industrial housing
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Richeyville (Pa.)
  • Source
  • CONSOL Energy Inc. Mine Maps and Records, 1857-2010
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • CONSOL Energy, Inc. Mine Maps and Records
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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