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| Title | Coal miners on pay day, Roslyn, Washington, February 1955 |
| Photographer | Carson
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1955 |
| Caption | These three miners smile as they wait for their paychecks at the No. 9 mine of the Northwestern Improvement Co. in Roslyn. A subsidiary of Northern Pacific Railroad, the Northwestern Improvement Co. reopened two mines after a long slack period, largely in response to demand from the Hanford atomic plant and a government order from Korea.
Pictured left to right are Toby Wakkuri, unit foreman, Joe Sample, mine electrician, and Alec Bell, miner, all of Cle Elum. |
| Notes | Caption information source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 20, 1955
Date photograph was published in Seattle Post-Intelligencer: February 20, 1955 |
| Subjects | Coal miners--Washington (State)--Roslyn; Coal mining--Washington (State)--Roslyn |
| Personal Names | Bell, Alec; Sample, Joe; Wakkuri, Tony |
| Places | United States—Washington (State)--Roslyn |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.5608 |
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| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI). |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from film positive using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4, JPEG quality measurement 5. |
