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Rufus E. Ribble, Photographer, Panoramic Group Portrait Photographs of Coal Miners and Related Subjects A&M 4167

Rufus E. Ribble, Photographer, Panoramic Group Portrait Photographs of Coal Miners and Related Subjects A&M 4167


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1549 University Ave.
P.O. Box 6069
Morgantown, WV 26506-6069
Business Number: 304-293-3536
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Staff of the West Virginia & Regional History Center

Repository
West Virginia and Regional History Center
Identification
A&M 4167
Title
Rufus E. Ribble, Photographer, Panoramic Group Portrait Photographs of Coal Miners and Related Subjects ca. 1920-1958
URL:
https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/205271
Quantity
.2 Linear Feet, Summary: 2 in. (large flat storage box, 1 1/2 in.); (oversize folder, 1/2 in)
Location
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Language
English
Abstract
This collection of panoramic photographs primarily documents the coal miners of Fayette and Raleigh counties  next hit. The photographer, Rufus "Red" Ribble, was born May 14, 1878, near Blacksburg, Virginia, and died December 27, 1967 in West Virginia. He came to West Virginia sometime before 1920 and lived out his life in Mount Hope. The collection contains 119 panoramic photographs, which were made with a large rotating camera called a Cirkut camera. These photos are contact prints; all but one are black and white. Images include group portraits, landscapes/views of towns, and a few views of store interiors. Subjects of the photographs include coal miners, mining towns, local businesses, and local social and church groups. The majority of the photos are group portraits of coal miners from Fayette and Raleigh previous hit counties  next hit.

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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Rufus E. Ribble, Photographer, Panoramic Group Portrait Photographs of Coal Miners and Related Subjects, A&M 4167, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchase from Crabtree, Mark, of Crabtree Photographs, 2016/01/19

Scope and Contents

Photographer Rufus "Red" Ribble was born May 14, 1878, near Blacksburg, Virginia, and died December 27, 1967 in West Virginia. He came to West Virginia sometime before 1920 and lived out his life in Mount Hope. The collection includes 119 panoramic photographs, which were made with a large rotating camera called a Cirkut camera. These photos are contact prints; all but one are black and white. Images include group portraits, landscapes/views of towns, and a few views of store interiors. Subjects of the photographs include coal miners, mining towns, local businesses, and local social and church groups. The majority of the photos are group portraits of coal miners from Fayette and Raleigh previous hit counties  next hit. Some photos were identified with the help of West Virginia Coalfield Photography 1900-2005: Panoramic Photography, by Rufus Ribble, George A. Bragg, Morgan G. Bragg, and Melody Bragg (Beaver, WV: GEM Publications, 2005.) Photos are organized roughly by previous hit county  next hit.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Coal mines and mining
  • Fayette previous hit County  next hit (W. Va.)
  • Greenbrier previous hit County  next hit (W. Va.)
  • Kanawha previous hit County  next hit (W. Va.)
  • Nicholas previous hit County  next hit (W. Va.)
  • Raleigh previous hit County  next hit (W. Va.)
  • Summers previous hit County  next hit (W. Va.)
  • Wyoming previous hit County  next hit (W. Va.)

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Fayette County (W. Va.)
  • Greenbrier County (W. Va.)
  • Kanawha County (W. Va.)
  • Nicholas County (W. Va.)
  • Raleigh County (W. Va.)
  • Summers County (W. Va.)
  • Wyoming County (W. Va.)
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Container List

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Clifftop Mines (group portrait)
1929 July 18
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Fire Creek Mine, Royalty Smokeless Coal Co., Clifftop, WV
1956
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Preparation Plant, Royalty Smokeless Coal Co., Clifftop, WV (not group portrait)
1956
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Ames Mining Company, Fayette, WV (night force)
1950
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Fayette previous hit County  next hit School Buses, Fayetteville, WV
1940 August 13
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- New River at Fayette Station (landscape)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Whitlock Motor Co., Fayetteville, WV
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Whitlock's Farm, Fayetteville, WV
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Free Will Baptist Bible School, Kilsyth, WV
June 1948
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- North Kilsyth and Siltix, WV (group portrait)
September 1925
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Saint Anthony Catholic Church, Kilsyth, WV
August 1949
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- 12th Annual Sectional Safety Meeting, Mount Hope, WV
1941 September 13
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- City of Mount Hope, WV (landscape)
1948
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Miner's First Aid Training or Mine Company Safety Contest, Mount Hope Stadium, Mount Hope, WV
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Mount Hope, WV (Group portrait, mostly women wearing white with flowers)
1921 March 27
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Beards Fork, WV ("hoot-owl" shift)
1956
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Cannelton Coal and Coke Co., Cannelton, WV (coal carts)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Cannelton Coal and Coke Co., Cannelton, WV (shows rail line)
ca. 1958
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Cannelton Coal and Coke Co., Cannelton, WV (landscape/buildings)
1925
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Cannelton Coal and Coke Co., Cannelton, WV (store interior)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Cannelton Coal and Coke Co., Lady Dunn Mines, Cannelton, WV (night force)
1956
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Club House, Cannelton Coal and Coke Co., Cannelton, WV
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Cunard, WV (group portrait of miners)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- previous hit Lee's  next hit Tree Tavern (building and landscape, sign for Sewell Mountain)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Eastern Gas and Fuel, Page, WV
1952
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Eastern Gas and Fuel, Page, WV (day force)
1952
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Kanawha Falls, WV (landscape)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Longacre, WV (group portrait of miners)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Maple Lane Farms, Inc., Oak Hill, WV
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- McKendree Hospital (group portrait)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- McKendree Hospital (grounds)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Standard Fire Creek Coal Co., Beelick Knob, WV (landscape)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Summerlee, WV (day force)
1955
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Summerlee, WV (night force)
1946
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Thurmond, WV (landscape)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Thurmond, WV (landscape)
April 1920
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Turkey Knob, WV (group portrait)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Turkey Knob, WV (group portrait)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Turkey Knob, WV (landscape)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Whipple, WV (landscape)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Ames Height (houses)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Medo Fuel Co., Mine No. 2
1956
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Oakwood Mine, Oakwood, WV (night force)
1955
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Oakwood Mine, Oakwood, WV (officials)
1947 July 28
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Oakwood, WV (night force)
1944 July 28
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Beckley, WV (landscape)
1949 April 1
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Black Knight Country Club (group portrait)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Home of The Black Knight Club (building)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Richmond Cleaners and Laundry, Beckley, WV (interior)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Pinecrest Sanitarium, Beckley, WV
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Blue Jay Lumber Co., Blue Jay, WV (landscape)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Blue Jay Lumber Co., Blue Jay, WV (landscape, color; includes copy of note found on back of original frame)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Bradley, WV (landscape)
1953
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Casaloma, WV (group of men posed in front of a building)
1930
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Cranberry, WV (playground and houses, New River Co. Cranberry Store)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- East Gulf, WV
1952
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- East Gulf, WV (landscape)
1952
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Winding Gulf, Collieries Mine, No. 4, East Gulf, WV (day force)
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Winding Gulf, Collieries Mine, No. 4, East Gulf, WV (night force)
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Eccles, WV (shadow of Ribble and camera)
1956
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Grandview, WV (landscape)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Gulf Smokeless Coal Co., Tams, WV (landscape)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Gulf Smokeless Coal Co., Tams, WV (night force)
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Helen WV Junior High School
April 1947
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Helen, WV (landscape, city)
1947
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Mine #9 (night force), Helen, WV
April 1947
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Lillybrook, WV (day force)
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- McAlpin Coal Co. (group portrait)
1930 October 30
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- McAlpin Coal Co., McAlpin, WV (day force)
1947
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- McAlpin, WV (day force)
1955
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- McAlpin, WV (night force)
1955
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Oswald, WV (group portrait)
1942 July 16
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Oswald, WV (night crew)
1942 July 21
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Oswald, WV (night force)
June 1949
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- C&O Line "down hollow" in Oswald, WV (landscape)
1942
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Price Hill, WV (group portrait)
1931
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Raleigh, WV (landscape)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Slabfork Coal Co. (landscape)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Skelton, WV (night force)
1946
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- City of Sophia, WV
September 1949
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Free Will Baptist Church, Sunday School, Sophia, WV
1944 June 11
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Sterling Smokeless Coal Co., Whitby, WV (night force)
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Stotesbury, WV (night force)
1955
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Greenbrier previous hit County  next hit -- Acme Limestone Co., Fort Spring, WV (not group portrait)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Greenbrier previous hit County  next hit -- East Rainelle, WV (landscape)
1950
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Greenbrier previous hit County  next hit -- Imperial Smokeless Coal Co., Mine No. 3, Quinwood, WV (night force)
1950
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Greenbrier previous hit County  next hit -- Imperial Smokeless Coal Co., Quinwood, WV
July 1921
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Greenbrier previous hit County  next hit -- Johnstown Coal and Coke Co., Mine 1, Crichton, WV (night force)
1950
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Greenbrier previous hit County  next hit -- Leckie Smokeless Coal Co., Anjean, WV
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Greenbrier previous hit County  next hit -- Raine Lumber and Coal Co., Duo, WV
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Kanawha previous hit County  next hit -- Carbon Fuel Company, Carbon, WV (landscape)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
Nicholas previous hit County  next hit -- Johnstown Coal and Coke Co., Crichton #4 Mine, Panther Gulch, WV (night force)
1950
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
Nicholas previous hit County  next hit -- Johnstown Coal and Coke Co., Crichton #4 Mine, Panther Gulch, WV (not group portrait)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
Nicholas previous hit County  next hit -- Mount Hope Coal Co., Mount Hope, WV, Mineson Bond/Mies on Bando, Holcomb, Nicholas Co., WV
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
Nicholas previous hit County  next hit -- Richwood Sewell Coal Co., Summersville, WV (night force)
1957
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
Nicholas previous hit County  next hit -- Richwood, WV (landscape)
1957–1958
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
Summers previous hit County  next hit -- Mountain State Tavern, Located on Greenbrier River, just out of city limits of Hinton, WV on RFD #3
ca. 1950
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
Wyoming previous hit County  next hit -- Alpoca, WV (night force)
1955
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
Wyoming previous hit County  next hit -- Itmann, WV (day force)
1956
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
Wyoming previous hit County  next hit -- Kopperston, WV (landscape)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
Wyoming previous hit County  next hit -- Machine Shop Crew, Henry (?), Elmore, WV
1952
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
Wyoming previous hit County  next hit -- Mullens, WV (landscape)
1949 September 20
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
Wyoming previous hit County  next hit -- Mullens, WV (not group portrait)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
Wyoming previous hit County  next hit -- Stephenson, WV (landscape)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
Wyoming previous hit County  next hit -- Wyco, WV (night force)
1947
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
Unknown previous hit County  next hit -- Greer Railroad (photographer Garner)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
Unknown previous hit County  next hit -- Lillydale Grocery and Houses (landscape)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
Unknown previous hit County  next hit -- Sink's Tourist Camp (gas station)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
Unknown previous hit County  next hit -- Unidentified (group portrait)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
Unknown previous hit County  next hit -- Unidentified (men with cars)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
Unknown previous hit County  next hit -- Unidentified (mining town)
undated
Mixed Materials Unboxed Folder: 11
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Lookout Miners (Blume Mine), New River Export Smokeless Coal, Lookout, WV (group portrait of miners and men on horseback)
undated
Mixed Materials Unboxed Folder: 11
Fayette previous hit County  next hit -- Oakwood Mine, Oakwood, WV (day force)
1955
Mixed Materials Unboxed Folder: 11
Raleigh previous hit County  next hit -- Price Hill, WV (landscape)
1931 March 18
Mixed Materials Unboxed Folder: 11
Kanawha previous hit County  next hit -- Valley Camp #8, Local 1054 (day force)
1956
Mixed Materials Unboxed Folder: 11
Nicholas previous hit County  next hit -- Sewell Coal Co., Mine #5, Nettie, WV (day force)
1957
Mixed Materials Unboxed Folder: 11
Morgantown & Preston previous hit Counties  next hit -- Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad (2 copies, different views of same scene)
undated
Mixed Materials Unboxed Folder: 11
Unknown previous hit County -- North American Mines (damaged)
undated