Black coal miners

Housed: Box: 112 Folder: 28 [Paterno/GCS/AI/04.S07.04] Preferred Citation: United Mine Workers of America, Historical Collections and Labor Archives, Special Collections Library, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University. Repository: Penn State Special Collections, University Park, PA, USA.

Photographer Earl Dotter has spent more than half of his life documenting workers in the most hazardous conditions.

Life Magazine :: Ruhr Valley, Germany Grimy-faced German coal miner posing resolutely outside the coal mine where he hopes post-war management will not close out his job, in the Ruhr Valley. Location: Gelsenkirchen, Germany Date taken: 1945 Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White

Men do not like to fail. We find much of our identity in our ability to not be a failure. Yet, if we are honest, our spiritual lives are often characterized by the very thing we dread—failure. Our resolutions and our aspirations simply do not align with reality. Habitual sins plague us and enslave us, leading to […]

20 years ago, British coal miners were still leading specially-bred ponies down into the darkness with them to haul coal, and as late as 1986, many of them were still relying on canaries to detect dangerous carbon monoxide fumes in the mines.

Coal Mine Clipart Etc