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Collection Summary
Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00020
Title: Two coal miners eating meal underground
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Associated Press
Inscription/Marks: On the back: 0075-020, and a yellowed paper sticker with nothing left on it but a pencil mark "Knife R", in red "AP", in pencil "Bismarck Bureau", and "15" in a circle.
Summary: Two coal miners take a lunch break in the underground mine operated by the Knife River Mining Company of Beulah (N.D.). Open beside them as they sit in the cluttered floor of the mine shaft are their metal lunch boxes and thermos bottles. The men are coated in coal dust, which stains their clothes as well as their hands and faces. The miners wear hardhats and eat by the light cast by the carbide headlamps affixed to the hats. In lunchbox is a wrapper from a loaf of Wonder Bread. Photograph is attributed to the Bismarck Associated Press Bureau, Bismarck (N.D.).
Red ID: PH_I_144930 Image ID: 105964 Image Notes: 00075-00020

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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