Group of Coal Miners

Artist M. A. Kleckner (American, active 1870s)

Dateca. 1869

MediumAlbumen stereograph

DimensionsImage and sheet (both): 3 1/16 × 6 1/16 inches (7.78 × 15.4 cm)
Mount: 3 7/16 × 7 inches (8.73 × 17.78 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.184

SignedOn mount recto, right edge, in black type: "Photographed and Published by / M. A. Kleckner, Mansion House, Mauch Chunk, Pa."; On mount verso, center, in black type: "Photographed and Published by / M.A. KLECKNER, / MANSION HOUSE, MAUCH CHUNK."

InscribedOn mount recto, left edge, in black type: "Views of the Line of the Lehigh Valley R R. / Lehigh Valley Views."; On mount verso, center, in black type: "CATALOGUE / OF / KLECKNER'S / Stereoscopic Gems / OF / MAUCH CHUNK, / "The Switzerland of America." / NEW SERIES -- LEHIGH VALLEY. / 150 ... A Trip Around the Switch-Back R.R. / 193 Group of Coal Miners / Subject Illustrated Underlined."

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DescriptionImage(s) of a group of men kneeling outside of a coal mine. They are similarly dressed wearing hats with lights except for one man on the right who wears a bow tie.Published References

Published References

William C. Darrah, The World of Stereographs (Gettysburg, Penn.: Darrah, 1977): 79-80.

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