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Collection Summary
Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00016
Title: Two North Dakota coal miners looking at a gauge
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Associated Press
Inscription/Marks: On the back: 0074-016, "Bismarck Bureau...AP...14", and a yellowed strip of paper on which is typed:14 Forethought is Keynote of Safety...For the Dakota State Mats The Associated Press...Bismarck Bureau."
Summary: Two coal miners pose in an underground area examining a gauge. Both men are wearing carbide headlamps on hardhats. The man with the gauge in his hand wears a leather shoulder bag across his leather jacket, and his khaki work pants are stained with coal dust. The man beside him is clad in a striped coverall, belted. This is a photograph taken for use by the Bismarck (N.D.). Bureau of the Associated Press Newspaper association. A caption on the back reads: Forethought is Keynote of Safety. Other information links this image with the Knife River Coal Mining Company of Beulah (N.D.).
Red ID: PH_I_144929 Image ID: 105963 Image Notes: 00075-00016

Collection: 00075 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Date: 1896-1942

Summary: Includes WPA buildings, road construction projects, images of drought, farming, irrigation projects, coal mining, 4-H activities, agriculture students in the National Youth Administration program, and North Dakota pioneers.

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