A mining community in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Exterior of an anthracite coal breaker. Men walking towards the coal breaker. Interior of the coal breaker. Work being carried on in the coal breaker.
Coal mining in the United States. Cranes and culm, banks and coal colliery machinery. A snow covered area. A man walking towards the machinery. Coal is taken out and is dumped in the area. Houses for miners. People standing outside the houses.
Coal mining in the United States. Culm dumps in an area. Exterior of a building. Smoke rises near the building. Coal is washed, sorted and placed on a conveyor belt. Men working and spraying water on coal.
Coal mining in the United States. Loaded railroad coal cars. The coal cars leave coal fields for a freight yard. The coal cars moving on a railroad track. Views of steam locomotives moving forward. Many views seen from point of view on top of train cars while the railroad train is moving. Miners aboard the coal cars. A coal freighter with a tugboat. The freight train on a railroad track. People pick up coal from near the track. Point of view (POV) shot from atop a train car as the moving railroad train goes across a snow-covered countryside.
British troops in deep trenches lined with woven branches, on the Western Front in World War 1. Slate refers to gas alarm with Strombos horn. British soldiers immediately don their gas masks and take up defensive firing positions in their trench. Gas fumes are seen drifting over the trench. View from the trench, of gas cloud over No-Man's land, with barbed wire and some snow on the ground. [Note: The Strombos horn,was operated by compressed air and could be heard for several miles. But as use of gas shells increased, and such attacks tended to be localized, other alarms were employed, instead, such as metal shell cases, steel triangles, watchmen's rattles, klaxon horns, etc.] (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
The S.S. Bear after foundering as seen from the beach at Sugar Loaf Rock. Pan of wrecked ship shows some offloading efforts underway in heavy surf. Survivors on the beach with scattered belongings.