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Coal Miners and Coal Camps


Miner taking home provisions, Capels

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In many cases, such as in Capels, there were small farms adjacent to coal camps. Some miners lived on these farms and supplemented what they earned with what they could grow on the farms.

Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott



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