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Two Coal Miners Working in a Glen Carbon Mine | This photograph shows two workers operating a coal cutting machine in a Glen Carbon mine. | Unknown | December 8, 2016 | |
Coal Miners in front of railroad car filled with coal | This photograph shows coal miners employed by the Madison Coal Company. They are posing in front of an Illinois Central Railroad car filled with coal. From left to right: Row of men standing: Man #2 standing is Sam Murphy, Man #6 standing is Albert Evans. Row of men kneeling: Man #2 is Chris Schneider and man in the middle with saw is William Werner the mine carpenter. |
Unknown | December 8, 2016 | |
Young men standing outside of coal mine #2 by lumber stacks in Glen Carbon, Illinois. | This photograph shows two men standing outside mine #2 at the Madison Coal Corporation in Glen Carbon. Roof supports are stacked alongside the railroad tracks. | Unknown | December 8, 2016 | |
Friends and family day at coal mine #2 in Glen Carbon, Illinois | This postcard shows friends and family visiting mine #2 in Glen Carbon. | Unknown | December 8, 2016 | |
Joann Condellone Oral History Interview | In this oral history interview, Joann Condellone describes growing up with her family of Italian immigrant coal miners in Collinsville. She talks about her struggles with misogyny as a woman in the military, as well as her career in midwifery and various travels around the world. | February 14, 2019 | September 4, 2019 | |
Jim Baima Oral History Interview | In this oral history interview, Jim Baima discusses growing up in Collinsville as the son of Italian immigrants, his father's job as a coal miner, the Italian-American community in Collinsville, and studying at SIUE. | October 10, 2018 | January 24, 2019 | |
Abandoned coal washer site | East end ruins of old dam in Judy creek below coal washer site. Water used for washing coal. | February 17, 1990 | December 8, 2016 | |
Cole Gratcher outside of the old Coal Office | Cole Gratcher (grandson of Alice Hielson) outside of the old Coal Office. Now Claude James house that used to belong to Mike Higgerson. | August 1960 | December 8, 2016 | |
Slack Pile | Slack Pile | October 22, 1926 | December 8, 2016 | |
December dinner inside the coal mine #2 in Glen Carbon, Illinois | Dinner served down inside coal mine #2 tunnel. December presiding over this unique dinner in #2 mine tunnel is Mike Sedlacek (center), top mine boss. The other people at the table are presumed to have been visiting officials of the Madison Coal Company and their wives. The unidentified women in the background are presumed to have been Glen Carbon Village women who prepared and served the food. | 1920 | December 8, 2016 |