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Company housing
Russell Lee photographed coal miner Carl Ruth and his family on September 6, 1946. The family rented their company housing for $10 a month from the Black Mountain...
In their garden
Russell Lee photographed coal miner N. Orinick and his family in front of their garden in Osage, West Virginia, on June 14, 1946.
Mining for gold up north
This photograph of miners and their equipment, taken around the turn of the 20th century, was shot in the Metlakatla gold fields located south of Ketchikan, Alaska,...
No water, no electricity for $6 a day
Mrs. John Whitehead, her husband, six children, and six grandchildren rented this primitive three-room company house from the Coleman Fuel Company. They were...
Testing the subsurface for the Bureau of Reclamation
Established in 1902, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation was chartered to manage, develop, and protect water resources in the American West. Among the activities of the...
Threatened eviction
In this photo by Jack Corn, Kentucky coal miner Jerry Rainey and his family pose in front of their four-room home. The family was threatened with eviction from...
Working in a coal mine
In 1946, a Federal agency, the Solid Fuels Administration for War, hired noted photographer, Russell Lee, to photograph living and working conditions in American coal...
Search results 1 - 7 of 7 for the tag Mining