Group of 10 stereoviews documenting the anthracite coal mining industry in Pennsylvania. The views include surface structures, mining towns, and interior scenes showing miners at work in underground shafts and processing facilities.

Several stereographs depict the shaft houses and breaker buildings at Scranton, Pennsylvania, along with views of workers inside the mines extracting coal. Other images show coal pickers working along sorting tables and miners emerging from the entrances of underground shafts. A view labeled “Miners’ Children and Homes near Hazleton, Pa.” illustrates the communities that developed around the coal industry.

Published by companies such as the Keystone View Company, these stereographs were widely distributed in educational sets illustrating American industry. The photographs provide a detailed visual record of the working conditions, machinery, and communities associated with the anthracite coal fields during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.