Keywords: A one-room schoolhouse's classroom in one of the recreated "coal camp" buildings at the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine in Beckley, West Virginia LCCN2015634337.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 055 ; Below ground is a restored mine once operated by the Phillips Family in the late 1800s and now owned by the City of Beckley West Virginia in the city's New River Park A coal camp was an entire sometimes temporary company town owned by the miners' employer Sometimes the workers lived there in tiny miners' shanties during the work week only and returned to their families elsewhere on weekends The park also includes a youth museum and a mountain homestead ; Forms part of West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Credit line West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015634337 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/34300/34321a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 34321 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 34321 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith |