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Mining Town/ Pa.
The 2:45 p.m shift of coal miners riding in coal cars as they head into the mountain for the "face" (work area) in the pits, a good 45 minutes from loading spot, which means they spend an hour and half or two hrs a day in the mines for which they do not
Location:Nanty Glo, PA, US
Date taken:April 1943
Photographer:Alfred Eisenstaedt
Size:1006 x 1280 pixels (14.0 x 17.8 inches)

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