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Thread #50747 Message #1381476
Posted By: GUEST,John Garst
18-Jan-05 - 01:57 PM
Thread Name: Origin Of John Henry--part TWO
Subject: RE: Origin Of John Henry--part TWO
For a photograph of double-jack steel driving at a contest, 1907, see
In one of these you see the muckers at work along with two triple-jack drilling teams. Another shows muckers and a man breaking rocks with a sledge hammer. In American railroad tunnel building, steel drivers got paid much more than muckers.
The "collectbritain" site may have more drilling photographs. I find it very difficult to navigate. However, I think that if you go to
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/search/
and put "mine" in the box at the upper right, then search, you will get links to most of them.