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Living Conditions of Miners and their Families

A Mining Town. (1,600 feet above sea level.)
A Young Apprentice and his Papa.
An Eviction After the Strike of 1902.
One of the Worst Company Houses in the Coal Fields.(Four families in the building.)
One of the Best Company Houses in the Coal Fields.(A double dwelling.)
Scene of a Cave-in on Lackawanna Street, Olyphant, January, 1902.(Four houses, a barber-shop and a hotel were swallowed up within an hour of the first warning.)
A Portable Saloon Visiting a Mining Patch.
Some of our Future Citizens.
Economy in a Mining Town. (Twenty-five families are supplied by this hydrant.)
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