Bessie Mine,Sloss Sheffield Steel & Iron Company,Alabama,Coal Mine,1910

Title: On the tipple at the Bessie Mine, Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. These young boys work around and on these coal cars, loaded and empty, while they are running at full speed. It is dangerous. One of these boys said, 'Ain't hardly a day goes by that someone don't get pinched or hurt.' 'I got my leg jammed a while ago and was laid up a week.' Location: Bessie Mine, Alabama.
Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1910 November.
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Coal mines.
Hine no. 1827.
Subjects:
Boys.
Coal miners.
Mine railroads.
Tipples.
United States--Alabama--Bessie Mine.
Photographic prints.
Bookmark /ncl2004000586/PP/
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