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| Title | Men at picking table at Cannon Mine bunkers, Franklin, ca. 1915. |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1915 |
| Caption | A picking table was an area where the newly mined coal and slag would pass over a moving or vibrating table. Miners would separate the shiny, lighter coal from the heavier shale and rock. Jobs on the picking table were often given to new and inexperienced help, or older laborers who could no longer handle the grueling underground mining work.
The town of Franklin was located on the hillside above the Green River Gorge about two miles east of Black Diamond. |
| Notes | Typed on verso: Picking table, new bunker, Cannon Mine |
| Subjects | Coal Miners--Washington (State)--Franklin; Coal Mining --Washington (State)--Franklin; Pacific Coast Coal Company--Washington (State)--Franklin |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Franklin |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1978.6585.43b
SHS19186 |
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| Credit Line | Pacific Coast Company Photograph Album, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Pacific Coast Company Photograph Album |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print: b&w; 7.5 x 9.75. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original photograph as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS2. |
