Miners would sit in this room before going into the mine. The boards on the right indicated whether every single miner was “in” or “out”.
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Looking into the tunnel system from below the Women’s Ward. The tunnels were used mostly by staff to move food and laundry.
With an office like this, the ones food begins to taste more and more like nachos.
On the top floor of the former casket building is the finishing line for the coating section; on this section the final spray of plastic would hit the wood before a small furnace would seal the plastic permanently to the surface, making it more resilient, I assume.
Cages and hooks to dry wet miner clothes.
No Bibles were left in the pews, only golf pencils.
The giant radiators in this casting shop look like a flag to me.
A few of the stalls in the older section of the roundhouse, the noon sky peeking in.
The Blacksmith Shop (right) was connected to the Bunk House (left) via this narrow walkway. This is likely due to the fire risk in each building. The left building had a cooking stove and furnace for heat and the right building had a small industrial furnace to repair mining equipment. A little walkway would mean that a fire on one side would be easier to fight from the other.
Hunter and the Hoist House.