| Description: | This was one of three images of a 1947, Indiana strip mining project underway, which depicted a bucket crane in the process of loading a waiting railcar with an unknown collection of raw materiel. This image was provided by the Center for Disease Control's (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). See PHIL 9553 and 9554 for two additional images of this scenario.
The NIOSH Historic Photo Collection began as the “picture file” of the Industrial Hygiene Division of the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS), c. 1930-1960. It is a unique collection of mid-20th Century images of American workers and workplaces and documents occupational safety and health research of that era. The collection consists of approximately 1,000 original photographs and schematic drawings. |
