[Photograph album related to housing and sanitary conditions for mining sites and company towns in the United States].

Photograph album with images that chiefly document housing and sanitary conditions for mining sites and company towns in the United States, 1910-1915. The album encompasses 289 photographs as well as 17 pictorial postcards, eight clippings, and seven printed items that depict identified and unidentified sites. Images include identified and unidentified views of construction projects, dairies, dams, dormitories, houses, meeting halls, mills, mines, outhouses, schools, and general settlements as well as portraits of miners as well as children, women, and men individually and in groups. The album was likely compiled by an organization or government agency

Images related to housing include views of the H.C. Frick Coke Company town at Marguerite in Pennsylvania as well as views of settlements at Acme in Wyoming, Boswell in Pennsylvania, Gary in West Virginia, San Mateo in California, Stockett in Montana, Virginia City in Nevada, Wilburton in Oklahoma, and the communities of Arjay, Cary, Coxton, and Jenkins in Kentucky. Clippings include images of company housing for the Illinois Steel Company at Gary, Indiana, and the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company ay Gwinn, Michigan. Related images include views of prefabricated homes manufactured by the North American Construction Company and the Pacific Portable Construction Company probably at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition as well as a photograph of a bird's-eye view drawing of an "ideal mining village" drawn by F. C. Wilharm of the United States Bureau of Mines

Images related to buildings include the Hotel Morenci at Morenci, Arizona; the Montana Hotel at Jerome, Arizona; the recreation hall and tennis courts for the Oliver Iron Mining Company at Hibbing, Minnesota; and the company store of the Pittsburg-Buffalo Company at Marianna, Pennsylvania

Images that document mines include the Bingham Canyon Open Pit Copper Mine operated by the Utah Copper Company at Salt Lake County, Utah; the Mammoth Mine in Shasta County, California; and the United Verde Mine at Jerome, Arizona

Images related to sanitary conditions include a clothing change house for the Republic Iron and Steel Company at the Raimund Mine at Jefferson County, Alabama; a bathhouse for the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company at Magnet, Colorado; and a delivery wagon for sanitary department of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company at Edgewater, Alabama, as well as unidentified sites that include views of ore cars fashioned as toilets and design drawings for outhouses. Related views of hospitals include the Windber Hospital financed by the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company at Windber, Pennsylvania, the Miami-Inspiration Hospital at Miami, Arizona, and the Penn Mary Hospital at Heilwood, Pennsylvania

Incidental images include a view of Asian Americans outside the Lun Sing Chong store at Rockspring, Wyoming; an exterior group portrait of the baseball team for the Bull Hill & Straub Mountain Gold Mining & Milling Company at Boulder County, Colorado, and an interior view of a company meat market and exterior of a company store for the Consolidation Coal Company in western Maryland. Images at unidentified sites include exterior views of discrete groups of African American men playing croquet and outside a hall holding billiards sticks. Clippings of covers from "The Colliery Engineer," include an exterior portrait of "huckleberry miners," wives of coal miners near McAdoo, Pennsylvania, as reproduced on the July 1913 cover, and a view of oxen transporting coal underground as reproduced on the June 1914 cover