Photo Gallery (U.S. National Park Service)

All photos used in the West Virginia Mine Wars Story Map

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There are two men in white work shirts, suspenders and trousers facing away from the camera. They are kneeling behind a mound of earth. The man on the left has his head turned towards the man on the right, who mans a machine gun. Both are wearing wide-brimmed hats.

Machine gun nest on Blair Moun...

360 x 460
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There are four men, one on the right with his back to the camera and three on the left facing the man on the right. The man on the right is a U.S. soldier. The three men on the left are coal miners and are turning over rifles to the soldier.

Miners turning in weapons at t...

615 x 800
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Fifteen soldiers pose in front of a frame building, eleven of them are holding rifles, and all are dressed in uniform. A window in the frame building shows three more men seated on the sill. Above them are the worlds "Paint Creek JCT" painted on the building.

State Troops at Paint Creek, W...

612 x 1000
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Five coal miners pose in a line in front of a mine entrance. Two on the left are seated on top of a mine cart while the other three men are standing. None are smiling.

West Virginia Coal Miners, 190...

1346 x 1920
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Two men stand next to each other with their arms aby their sides. They are wearing early 20th century suits, the man on the left in a gray suit and the man on the right in black. The man on the left is taller and is smiling, whereas the man on the left has a serios expression and is five to six inches shorter. The photo was taken outdoors.

Fred Mooney and Frank Keeney i...

434 x 547
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Six men in suits pose in a line in front of a brick building. Four are holding wide-brimmed hats in their hands.

United Mine Workers union lead...

792 x 1234
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A modern image of a mountainside building. It is made of brick and stone and is built in a classical style. The main structure is two-stories high with a square turret in the center massing of the building. The turret adds a third story to this part of the building and has four clock faces built into its pyramidal roof. Smaller square turrets rest at each corner of the eaves. At the right of the image is a smaller one-story addition made of a lighter stone. It has a flat roof and is built into the downward slope of the hillside. The building sits at the corner of two streets and is surrounded by a manicured grass lawn.

McDowell County Courthouse, We...

1440 x 1920
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A three-quarter frame black and white portrait of a man looking to the left of frame. He is wearing a full suit and holds a small handgun pointing down.

Sid Hatfield Portrait

An interior shot of a courtroom, facing the judge's bench from a main entrance. Wooden sills create an aisle and frame the public observation seating. A railing separates the public seating from the court officials, prosecution, and defendant's sections in the court room. There are no people in the photo, a large chandelier in the shape of a ring is in frame at the center of the ceiling. The circle is lined with individual lights. The circumference of the chandelier takes up at least a third of the room.

Interior of the Jefferson Coun...

465 x 640
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A black and white portrait of an old woman. Her face is lined, and her white hair is pulled back away from her face. Her attire is an Edwardian style, with a black jacket over her white lace covered blouse. Her expression is serious.

Mary "Mother" Jones

640 x 409
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coal miners pose on an electric mine locomotive

Mine Locomotive

701 x 1000
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Eight men are posed in a line, standing in front of a raised, frame porch. They are coal miners and each man holds a rifle with the barrel point up to the right of the image. One of the miners looks eerily like a young teenage boy.

Armed Coal Miners in Eskdale

430 x 640
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Five men in suits and wide brimmed black hats mill about candidly in the photo. Each one holds a rifle in one hand. Their hats are worn low on their heads, shielding their eyes.

Baldwin-Felts Mine Guards

443 x 640
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Three people are posed in front of a small house. A woman with a large feathered hat stands just outside the door and behind a picket fence. She is partially obscured by the other two people, who are in front of the picket fence. One of these people is an older woman in a black dress. She is holding some kind of book or document in her left hand. Next to her, at the right side of the image, is a man in a soldier's uniform. He stands close to the old woman like a guard.

Mother Jones outside her Priso...

950 x 640
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The foreground shows part of a modern two-way road. Railroad tracks run parallel to the road. The railroad tracks sit between the road and a row of two to three story brick buildings. Altogether, the landscape shows a small, nondescript mountain town.

Matewan, West Virginia

351 x 640
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A portrait of a man, the image is cut off at his legs. He wears a suit next to train tracks witch a box car behind him. He is smiling slightly and is holding a wide-brimmed hat flat against his torso.

Ed Chambers Portrait

1000 x 623
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A mountain-side landscape with tree-lined hills. The center of the image is a valley where a large frame structure stands on stilts and trusses. The structure has two enclosed, frame buildings with gabled rooves on top of the stilts. They are built at different heights but are in line with one another by their side elevations. The entire structure gradually decreases in height in a line towards the right of the photo. Where it terminates in additional frame, compartment-like components. Right next to the structure are railroad tracks.

Kelly Creek Mine Tipple

420 x 533
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A modern streetscape showing a four-way intersection in a downtown area. The focus of the image is a large classical brick structure, with four large Greek columns. A cupola sits at the roofline of the front facade, painted white. other buildings mirror this classical style through subtle ornamentation and building materials.

Jefferson County Courthouse

1280 x 1920
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A candid photo of a middle-aged man. He is in an expensive looking suit and smiling joyfully.

Robert F. Wagner reacting to n...

640 x 508
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A man is seated behind an official looking desk in a suit. He is smiling widely with four antiquated microphones sitting on the desk and pointed at him at the right of the image. A desk mat and ashtray are the only other objects on the desk. Behind the man is a window with a deep sill, heavy drapery and the corner of an ornate picture frame. He is holding a pair of glasses in his right hand on top of the desk.

FDR in 1938

496 x 640
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