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A Coal Tipple

ca. 1920-1940

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A Coal Tipple
  • Title
  • A Coal Tipple
  • Date
  • ca. 1920-1940
  • Identifier
  • 20110202-hpicmonroeville-0099
  • Source Identifier
  • 743
  • Description
  • Once mined coal had been brought to the surface it had to be hauled to a coal tipple. A coal tipple was a place for temporary storage where wagons of coal from the pits were “tipped” or dumped, eventually to be loaded into railroad cars on sidings running beneath the tipple.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Tipples--Pennsylvania--Monroeville.
    Coal mines and mining--Pennsylvania--Monroeville.
    Monroeville (Pa.)--History.
  • Source
  • hpicmonroeville
  • Contributor
  • Monroeville Historical Society
  • Collection
  • Monroeville Historical Society Collection
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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