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| View Original: | Interior of an early 20th-Century married miner's cabin one of the recreated "coal camp" buildings at the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine in Beckley, West Virginia LCCN2015634335.tif.tiff (8688x5792) | |||
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| Keywords: Interior of an early 20th-Century married miner's cabin one of the recreated "coal camp" buildings at the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine in Beckley, West Virginia LCCN2015634335.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 055 ; This three-room structure moved from the New River Mine ins Sprague West Virginia was larger and more comfortable than other tiny miners' shanties rented by single miners 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 Miners sometimes called these homes Jenny Linds after a California boom town that in turn took its name from a Swedish singer whose music was beloved in the California camps The West Virginia 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/2015634335 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/34300/34319a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 34319 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 34319 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 | ||||