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Lewis Wickes Hine — Drilling For A Shot: Old-Fashioned Way Of Mining Coal

Lewis Wickes Hine

Drilling For A Shot: Old-Fashioned Way Of Mining Coal

1921

Traditional mining techniques are documented as mechanization began transforming America's coal industry forever.

Medium
Gelatin silver print

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Lewis Wickes Hine, Drilling For A Shot: Old-Fashioned Way Of Mining Coal, 1921

Traditional mining techniques are documented as mechanization began transforming America's coal industry forever.

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Year
1921
Seen at
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

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Industrial, Documentary, American, Photograph, Labor, Social Commentary, Historical, Modern, Black and White, Male Figure

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