16 Photos From Coal Camps In WV In The 1930s
Check out these photos to get a glimpse of what it was like. 1. These miners are waiting on their mail at the post office in Kempton in 1939. John Vachon/Library of Congress LC-USF34-008972. 2. This was a miners' bath house in Welch 1938. Public bath houses were an essential part of life in a coal camp.