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Essay Part I-Thomas Dublin and Melissa Doak
The tradition of documentary photography in the United States stretches back for almost 150 years. Matthew Brady documented the death and destruction of the Civil War; at the turn of the twentieth century, Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine photographed…
Tags: career, Harvan, life, miners, photography
On the relationship to the miners
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…
Tags: generation, miners, mines, rapport, trust