This photograph illustrates the hilly terrain found in the southern part of Iowa. Coal mines would operate on and within these slopes. This is a photograph of a coal mine slope in Oskaloosa, Iowa, in 1896.
This photograph illustrates the hilly terrain found in the southern part of Iowa. Coal mines would operate on and within these slopes. This is a photogrpah of a coal mine slope in Oskaloosa, Iowa, in 1896.
This photograph gives an inside look of a coal mine in 1896, Oskaloosa, Iowa. Coal mines were unsafe and unhealthy places to work. Many men developed a disease known as the black lung, which ultimately led to a coal miner's death.
This 1896 image shows what the coal mining operation looked like in Colon, Iowa. Colon, located south of Oskaloosa in Mahaska County, was another town that went from a thriving community to nonexistence in a matter of a few years. Today, the only…
This 1896 image shows the coal mining operation going on at Lost Creek, Iowa, located near Eddyville in Mahaska County. Lost Creek is the site of one of the deadliest coal mining explosions in history. On Friday, January 24, 1902, around noon, 67…
This is a picture of George H. Ramsey, Superintendent of the Carbonado coal mining operation back in 1896. Ramsey also was a developer in the field of coal mining during the time. Coal mining was a lucrative business to be involved with if an ample…
Image - woodcut; vagabond with pack sitting on name plate and leaning on a stack of books, stringed instrument (cello?); monogram at lower left corner HRG; name plate "EX LIBRIS HERBERT R GALLOP"; signed in pencil at bottom HRGallop
Image - trees framing a landscape with castles in the clouds, a woman seated in the foreground reading; ornate shield below the woman "Ex Libris ELEANOR C. BUCHHOLZ"; below the image H.B. Pumpian
Image - desk with large closed book with CK monogram on cover and an open book standing behind it, flanked by lighted candles; an owl perches on the large book; below the image printed over musical staff lines "EX LIBRIS CHIAM KOTYLANSKY" decorated…
