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a woman and a coal miner in West Virginia
Coal Miner, West Virginia
This Month in Photo of the Day: Vintage National Geographic Photographs
A woman stands with a coal miner in Holden, West Virginia, in this 1938 photo.
Photographer B. Anthony Stewart was a bookkeeper in National Geographic’s photo lab before launching a decades-long career shooting pictures for the magazine.
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