Original Title/Caption: “War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Soldiers saw how the production front fights when coal miners took them underground during the anthracite miners' rallies, September 28th through October 1st, at Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton and Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania.”

Description: This black and white photograph shows two miners, wearing hardhats and headlamps, and a soldier crouched in a mineshaft.  The mine’s ceiling is low, and one miner holds a pole out to the wall of the mine.  This photograph was taken in October 1942 by William Perlitch.

Source: Perlitch, William, photographer. “War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Soldiers saw how the production front fights when coal miners took them underground during the anthracite miners' rallies, September 28th through October 1st, at Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton and Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania.”  Photograph, 1942.  From Library of Congress: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Call number LC-USE6- D-010725.  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b08645 (accessed March 20, 2007).