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Coal Miners and Coal Camps


Russian miner, Capels.

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Miners brought their home cultures with them and created a kind of melting pot in the coal camps. In some cases, men from Europe came by themselves and stayed in clubhouses before their wives and children joined them.

Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott


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