West Virginia Coal Miner

Eddie Adams

Associated Press

Buck Thorn's coal mine, small and hardly profitable, nevertheless gives work to eight men. The blackness gets tolerable in time. And even if a man couldn't bear it, what else could he do? Where else in the hills of West Virginia, in this depleted worn-out place, can a man go into darkness and come out eight hours later, $15.20 richer?

Eddie Adams, "West Virginia Coal Miner," in POYi Archive, Item #6618, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/6618 (accessed November 23, 2024).