Full Caption: Coal City Club in Coal City, West Virginia, a part of Beckley all of the men are coal miners. Note that some of them are "hunkering down" rather than sitting. This is a familiar stance to all miners who use this posture in the mine shafts which have low ceilings.
This photograph was taken as part of the Documerica project – a social and environmental photography project sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency during the 1970s.
This primary source comes from the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency.
National Archives Identifier:
556612Full Citation: 412-DA-14160; Coal City Club in Coal City, West Virginia; 6/1974; DOCUMERICA: The Environmental Protection Agency's Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern, 1972–1977; Records of the Environmental Protection Agency, Record Group 412; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/coal-city-club-in-coal-city-west-virginia, May 15, 2024]