Clothes and wire baskets hanging from the ceiling of the shower room at the Republic Steel coal mine in Sayre, Alabama, which was closed in August 1972.
At the time of its closure, Sayre location was the oldest continuously operating coal mine in Jefferson County. A similar image was published in an article and photo spread ("After 69 years and tons of coal Sayre closes coal mine chapter") in the Birmingham News on August 27, 1972, with th...
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| Summary: | At the time of its closure, Sayre location was the oldest continuously operating coal mine in Jefferson County. A similar image was published in an article and photo spread ("After 69 years and tons of coal Sayre closes coal mine chapter") in the Birmingham News on August 27, 1972, with the following caption: "Clothes baskets on pulleys, traditional miners' oddity, hang empty from shower room ceiling." |
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