A one-room schoolhouse's classroom in one of the recreated coal camp buildings at the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine in Beckley, West Virginia Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055).; Below ground is a restored mine once operated by the Phillips Family in the late 1800s and now owned by the City of Beckley, West Virginia, in the city's New River Park. A coal camp was an entire, sometimes temporary, company town owned by the miners' employer. Sometimes the workers lived there, in tiny miners'

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A one-room schoolhouse's classroom in one of the recreated coal camp buildings at the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine in Beckley, West Virginia Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055).; Below ground is a restored mine once operated by the Phillips Family in the late 1800s and now owned by the City of Beckley, West Virginia, in the city's New River Park. A coal camp was an entire, sometimes temporary, company town owned by the miners' employer. Sometimes the workers lived there, in tiny miners' shanties, during the work week only and returned to their families elsewhere on weekends. The park also includes a youth museum and a mountain homestead.; Forms part of: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.;

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