• SCENES FROM PAINT CREEK

    A coal miner with his dinner bucket sitting down to lunch in the "dinner hole" in one of the Milburn Colliery Company's mines. June 2001 image by author. There is not much more than this sign left at Milburn, Fayette County. This coal mining town was opened in the early 1920's, and at that time was a concern of the Milburn ByProducts Coal Co ...

    Get Price
  • scotts_run

    The bucket is quite large: miners were free to take leisurely lunch hours since they were paid by the tonnage of coal hauled rather than by the hour. And they naturally had a healthy appetite by the end of a long shift in the mine!

    Get Price
  • Plain Metal Lunch Boxes |

    Medium Plain Metal Lunch Box 895. Plain Metal Dome Lunch Box Silver 1495. Plain Metal Lunch Box 995. Small Plain Metal Lunch Box 695. Plain Metal Dome Lunchbox Black 1495.

    Get Price
  • Coal and Grit Artifacts | Museum of Industry

    Coal and Grit Artifacts. The Foord Pit suffered a terrible explosion in 1880 which killed 44 men. In 1927 a crew opening the Alan Shaft mine tunneled through to the site of the disaster and found the remains of some of the victims and relics like this lamp, its glass fused by the heat of the explosion. Another relic of the Foord Pit explosion ...

    Get Price
  • miners lunch box | eBay

    VINTAGE SMALL PINK TIN LUNCH BOX PAIL W / HANDLE CONTAINER COAL MINER. PreOwned. C or Best Offer. +C shipping estimate. from United States. S 0 p o A J n s o r e d 8 W C E O C. Vintage Thermos Coal Miners Walker County,Al. Lunch box Aluminum with clasps.

    Get Price
  • Coal Mining

    Another coalmining commemorative site is east of the Sebastian County Courthouse in Greenwood, on State Highway 10. This site features a metal statue of a miner with a lunch bucket in hand and a coal cart that came from a local mine on tracks. Names of miners in the Sebastian County area are engraved on stone markers at the site.

    Get Price
  • Dining with Antiques – Metal Lunch Pails | WorthPoint

    Covered containers allowed coal miners to keep their food dustfree. And, the lightweight metal was easy for children to carry. So, these packaging tins, sporting designs and advertising logos, often doubled as colorful lunch pails. It is probably because they were in daily use that so many of these tins still survive today and they remain collectible, but examples that are in dent and rust ...

    Get Price
  • TV: WOMAN MINER AND RAPE VICTIM

    Jan 11, 1983 · There is Daddy, who asks her, ''Are you a coal miner or a mother?'' and won't let her use his lunch pail. There are the town's women, who ostracize her, and the minister, who kicks her out of .

    Get Price
  • Miners Lunch Pail for sale | Only 4 left at 70%

    Vintage Metal Oval Coal Miners RR Lunch Dinner Bo . Vintage metal oval coal miners rr lunch dinner. Vintage cosmos aluminum coal miners dinner lunch pail bucket 4 container. "If you are in italy, spain, south america, and mid east, it will take over days even more"

    Get Price
  • MINING WALES` BIG PIT FOR A LODE OF MEMORIES

    Jun 09, 1985 · I remembered the diggers coming from the mines with their big, aluminum lunch buckets under their arms, blinking their way through coal dustcovered faces .

    Get Price
  • Big Muskie in Miners Memorial Park with Photos Then and Now

    Sep 28, 2018 · Miner's Memorial Park Address and Directions to get there: State Route 78, McConnelsville, OH 43756 The Big Muskie bucket sits 16 miles west of Caldwell. Take I77 to exit 25 and drive towards (and through) McConnellsville until you arrive at the park.

    Get Price
  • RARE old Blue Enamel Coal Miners Lunch Pail Lunch Bucket ...

    Mining Memorabilia. Email to friends Share on Facebook opens in a new window or tab Share on Twitter opens in a new window or tab Share on Pinterest opens in a new window or tab.

    Get Price
  • VINTAGE 3 PIECE COAL MINERS LUNCH BUCKET WITH WOOD .

    Find many great new used options and get the best deals for VINTAGE 3 PIECE COAL MINERS LUNCH BUCKET WITH WOOD BAIL HANDLE COMET at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

    Get Price
  • Coal Miners Mining Lunch Bucket Pail Cooler Coke Lee Norse ...

    Coke is it! Plug holds water. Has marks and wear from use and age. " deep. 16" tall including handle.

    Get Price
  • Coal miners are Men ... with a capital 'M' | Columns ...

    Aug 07, 2021 · Atop one bookcase is a minicollection that's especially poignant to me. It's all about coal mining. There's a battered lunch bucket, a kerosene lamp attached to a canvas cap, coal picks, a mule shoe, and a carbide lamp. Meanwhile, in the garage sits a recent flea market find – a breast auger, with four bits, some of them six feet long.

    Get Price
  • For Teachers/Librarians | Angie Smibert

    Coal miner's dinner bucket (also called a lunch pail). Coal Mining Heritage Oral History Project – In the late 1990s, Radford University collected oral histories from locals who'd been involved in coal mining in the New River Valley. My great uncle Scotty (Leo Scott) was interviewed twice for the project. Beckley, WV Exhibition Coal Mine Park – During the summer months, you can tour ...

    Get Price
  • Burning Up People to Make Electricity

    May 02, 2006 · When a miner complains, Jerry Johnson says, the foreman says, "If you don't like it, you can always get your bucket," meaning pick up your lunch bucket and get out.

    Get Price
  • For generations of Illinois coal mining families, risk is ...

    Jul 12, 2021 · Green used to pack a lunch pail for Campbell every day, and wash his bib overalls. She remembers how the miners and their families stuck together, going to dances at the American Legion and VFW, picnics with chicken and beer, and the big annual Christmas party hosted by Peabody.

    Get Price
  • Coal miners with a pit pony in harness, Vermillion County ...

    Description: This photograph portrays seven coal miners with a pit pony in harness at an unidentified mine in Vermillion County, Indiana. Three of the miners' caps sport carbide lamps and one miner is holding an aluminum lunch bucket.

    Get Price
  • Miner's Lunch Pail | Smithsonian Institution

    Walter Rothacker owned this lunch pail that he used in the coal mines of Minersville, Pennsylvania during the mid 20th century. Miner's lunch pails often held multiple compartments so that the miner could take multiple meals as well as water with him into the mine. Credit Line Walter Rothacker 1930 ID Number alog number MHI ...

    Get Price
  • Issue #11 Staff — Jelly Bucket

    Jan 06, 2021 · jelly bucket? It's an archaic slang term for a lunch pail, formerly used by coal miners and other laborers residing in Appalachia. You've found your personal jelly bucket; a great place to fuel your literary interests. Jelly Bucket is the place to for book reviews, ...

    Get Price
  • Altus Coal Miner's Memorial – Shootin' The Breeze

    Jul 28, 2015 · These five granite pillars each have the names of five hundred coal miners. In the center stands a statue of a coal miner, lunch bucket in hand. The memorial is found on the square in downtown Altus. It's a beautiful tribute to these forefathers.

    Get Price