Description: Broadside titled "An Appeal on Behalf of the Miners of Jackson County, O." This document relates the hardships of the coal miners of Jackson County resulting from a suspension of mining work beginning in November 1896. It was created by a committee of prominent citizens in Wellston to solicit donations to help striking miners and their dependents in the area. The broadside estimates that 22,000 people in Wellston depend on income from the mines and are in desperate circumstances. The 1897 strike was one of a number of labor disputes between coal miners and mine owners in the Hocking Valley region between 1880 and 1940. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: VFM4536
Subjects: Coal miners; Strikes and lockouts; Coal mining; Labor--Ohio
Places: Wellston (Ohio); Jackson County (Ohio);
 

Description: This photograph depicts two adolescent or pre-teen boys with a Jeffery Manufacturing model 28A mining machine, ca. 1890-1910. The mining machine was used to undercut seams of coal, to allow for expansion after the coal seam was broken apart with explosives; at the time of its invention, this was the most time-intensive part of mining coal. Jeffery Manufacturing was located in downtown Columbus, near the intersection of Fourth St. and First Ave.; today, that site is occupied by the Ohioana Library and the State Library of Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05155
Subjects: Coal miners; Coal mines and mining--Appalachian Region--History; Jeffrey Manufacturing Company (Columbus, Ohio); Teenagers; Coal mines and mining--Electric equipment
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts two adolescent or pre-teen boys with a Jeffery Manufacturing model 28A mining machine, ca. 1890-1910. The mining machine was used to undercut seams of coal, to allow for expansion after the coal seam was broken apart with explosives; at the time of its invention, this was the most time-intensive part of mining coal. Jeffery Manufacturing was located in downtown Columbus, near the intersection of Fourth St. and First Ave. Today, that site is occupied by the Ohioana Library and the State Library of Ohio, as well as a luxury housing space known as "the Jeffrey." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05156
Subjects: Coal miners; Coal mines and mining--Appalachian Region--History; Jeffrey Manufacturing Company (Columbus, Ohio); Teenagers; Coal mines and mining--Electric equipment
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts two adolescent or pre-teen boys with a Jeffery Manufacturing model 28A mining machine, ca. 1890-1910. The mining machine was used to undercut seams of coal, to allow for expansion after the coal seam was broken apart with explosives; at the time of its invention, this was the most time-intensive part of mining coal. Jeffery Manufacturing was located in downtown Columbus, near the intersection of Fourth St. and First Ave. Today, that site is occupied by the Ohioana Library and the State Library of Ohio, as well as a luxury housing space known as "the Jeffrey." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05157
Subjects: Coal miners; Coal mines and mining--Appalachian Region--History; Jeffrey Manufacturing Company (Columbus, Ohio); Teenagers; Coal mines and mining--Electric equipment
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A mine fan, locomotive and pan conveyor made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio, were installed in this coal mine, location unknown, 1971. These miners are using battery-powered electric lights on their safety helmets. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00975
Subjects: Coal miners; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
 

Description: Two 8" x 10" (20.32 x 25.4 cm) photographs document coal mining at the Sunday Creek Coal Mine Number 9 in Hocking County, Ohio. Organized in 1905, the Sunday Creek Coal Company operated dozens of mines in southeastern Ohio and West Virginia. Sunday Creek Coal Mine #6 in Millfield, Ohio was the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Ohio's history. On November 5, 1930, a buildup of methane gas exploded when the trolley the miners used to carry coal out of the mine produced a spark on the track. Eighty-two men were killed. Following the explosion, the mine closed for about a month. It reopened and operated until 1945. Tougher safety regulations were instituted in 1931 as a result of the Sunday Creek Coal Mine disaster. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3093_3735472_001
Subjects: Geography and Natural Resources; Business and Labor; Coal mining; Coal; Coal miners
Places: Hocking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Laborer operating a piece of Jeffrey mining equipment loaded with barrels. The Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, also known as the Jeffrey Mining Corporate Center, was established in 1876 as the Lechner Mining Machine Company in Columbus, Ohio, by Joseph Jeffrey and Francis Lechner. The company was the world’s leading producer of mining, conveying, and heavy industrial equipment for nearly 100 years. Jeffrey designed material handling products for a wide variety of uses, such as coal mining, farming, amusement park rides, earth-moving, lumber mills, and food processing, the use of which reduced handling costs, increased production, and decreased hard physical labor. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P251_B39F03_4794
Subjects: Coal miners; Jeffrey Manufacturing Company (Columbus, Ohio); Coal mines and mining--Electric equipment; Laborers;
 

Description: This coal tipple conveyor was made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. The men in the photograph are removing shale and other unwanted debris from the coal as it is conveyed to sizing screens and then on to railroad coal cars below the tipple. This conveyor was used by the Pocohontas Consolidated Collery Company, Mora, West Virginia, 1911. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01305
Subjects: Coal miners; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Mora (West Virginia)
 

Description: This coal tipple conveyor was made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. The men in the photograph are removing shale and other unwanted debris from the coal as it is conveyed to screens for sizing and then on to railroad coal cars below the tipple. This conveyor was used by the Greenbrier Coal and Coke Company, McDowell, West Virginia, 1911. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01306
Subjects: Coal miners; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: McDowell (West Virginia)
 

Description: The photograph shows an unknown abandoned coal mine entrance in Ohio. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F12_027_1
Subjects: Abandoned buildings--Pictorial works; Coal mines and mining--Ohio; Coal miners; Geography and Natural Resources; Industries--Ohio; Works Progress Administration of Ohio; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio
 

Description: 24-B longwall cutter made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio in use at the Peerless Cahaba Coal Company, Straven, Alabama, 1928. Longwall cutters were powered by either 250 or 500 volt direct current motors. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01494
Subjects: Coal miners; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Straven (Alabama)
 

Description: This photograph shows the discharge end of a 34-B coal cutting and loading machine built by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio in use at the Valier Coal Company, Valier, Illinois, 1918. A single cut with the 34-B took about 20 minutes and yielded over 8 tons of coal. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01390
Subjects: Coal miners; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Valier (Illinois)