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Title

On the relationship to the miners

Subject

Lanscoal

Description

Oral History: After the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company closed down its underground mines in 1954, two small companies leased mines and breakers and attempted to continue mining in the Panther Valley. They could not survive and in 1960 the Lanscoal Company began operating at the water level of the No. 9 mine in Lansford. It was a tiny operation, with some twenty miners, and for twelve years it survived as the only underground mining in a valley that had once given employment to more than 8,000. George Harvan, then working in the photographic department of Bethlehem Steel, set out to document this remaining vestige of an industry clearly in the last stages of decline.

Source

Interview with Harvan

Date

2000

Format

audio

Identifier

http://chnm.gmu.edu/harvan/HarvanSounds/Lanscoal1m5s.mp3

Oral History Item Type Metadata

Interviewer

Thomas Dublin

Interviewee

George Harvan

Transcription

As I mentioned before, I kind of got the feeling then that I should continue photographing the miners, because eventually I knew they were going to be finished, deep mining in the valley would be finished. So, every opportunity I got -- vacation time -- if I took vacation time, I went in. Weekends, Saturdays, if they were in, I would go in. As I knew most of them personally, they were my age -- maybe a little older, a few years older -- but I knew them. My relationship with those miners was very close, so I could do anything. I could take any type of pictures. I could walk in on them anytime. They knew what I was doing. And that was a very great benefit to me, to get real pictures, not posed pictures -- but pictures of actual working conditions.

Duration

1m5s
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