The Mildred B. Sutch, Coal Mining Photograph Collection, 1920-1971

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Summary Description
Repository:Utah State Historical Society
Call number:Mss C 853
Creator: Sutch, Mildred B., collector.
Title:Mildred B. Sutch, Coal Mining Photograph Collection, 1920-1971
Quantity:Copies 2 fds. (65 b/w photographs)
Abstract: Collection of photographs mostly taken by her father-in-law Oliver Sutch, who worked in different coal mines in Carbon County, Utah. Includes photographs of Sunnyside, Gordon Creek, Spring Canyon, Castle Gate, Standardville, etc.

Topics:
Coal mines and mining -- Utah -- Carbon County -- Photographs.
Floods -- Utah -- Carbon County -- Spring Canyon -- Photographs.

Persons:
Sutch, Oliver -- Photographs.

Places:
Standardville (Utah) -- Photographs.
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Background

Background Note

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Scope and Content

Collection of photographs mostly taken by her father-in-law Oliver Sutch, who worked in different coal mines in Carbon County, Utah. Includes photographs of Sunnyside, Gordon Creek, Spring Canyon, Castle Gate, Standardville, etc.
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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation:

Mildred B. Sutch, Coal Mining Photograph Collection, 1920-1971, Utah State Historical Society.

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Processing Information:

Collection processed by Susan Whetstone

Finding aid compiled by Susan Whetstone

Finding aid edited by Linda Thatcher, 2000

Collection cataloged by Linda Thatcher, 1999 (RLIN ID: UTSX 99-A266)

Finding aid encoded for the World Wide Web by Craig Ringgenberg, 2000

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Container list

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Folder

Contents

Mining photographs

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Coal Mining (Carbon County, Utah)
1. Mine Rescue Team (Sunnyside, Utah), 1920
2-3. Derailed coal mine cars (Sunnyside, Utah), 1920
4. Snowslide (Mutual, Utah), 1927
5. Gordon Creek Coal Mine (Utah), n.d.
6. Snow (Mutual, Utah), 1927
7. Snowslide (Mutual, Utah),1927
8. Portal (Gordon Creek Coal Mine, Utah), n.d.
9. Mutual (Carbon County, Utah), n.d.
10. Portal Mutual Coal Mine (Utah), n.d.
11. Snowslide (Mutual, Utah),1927
12. Winter scene (Gordon Creek Coal Mine, Utah), n.d.
13. Snow (Mutual, Utah), 1927
14. Snowslide (Mutual, Utah), 1927
15. Mine tipple crew (Mutual Coal Co., Utah), n.d.
16. Portal (Mutual Coal Mine, Utah), n.d.
17. Mine horse and driver at work #2 Mine (Castle Gate, Utah), n.d.
18. Air intake fan (Mutual Coal Mine, Utah), n.d.
19. 5th Left Entry, Sunnyside Coal Mine, 1920
20. Sunnyside, 1920
21. Spring Canyon Coal Co., n.d.
22. Oliver Sutch (Spring Canyon Coal Co. Group) n.d.
23-25. Flood damage at Mutual (Spring Canyon, Utah), 1927
26. Flood damage and derailed box car (Mutual, Spring Canyon), 1927
27-29. Flood damage (Mutual, Spring Canyon), 1927
30. Portal #2 Mine -- Castle Gate [left] and Employee bath house [right], n.d.
31. Employee and mine work horse #2 Coal Mine (Castle Gate), n.d.
32. #2 Mine (Castle Gate, Utah), n.d.

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Coal Mining, Carbon County (cont.)
1. Sutch, Oliver, 1920
2. Mine Rescue Team (Mutual Coal Mine, n.d.
3. Lunch for Mine Rescue Team (Sunnyside, Utah), 1920
4. Mine Rescue Team for coal mine fire (Sunnyside, Utah), 1920 [Oliver Sutch on far right]
5-6. First aid station (#2 Mine), n.d.
7-8. Mine Rescue Team (Mutual, Utah), n.d.
9. Sutch, Robert and Mildred former house which was a company owned mine workers rental, n.d.
10. Sutch, Robert and Mildred former house which was a company owned mine workers rental from 1941-1942 (Rains Coal Co., Utah), n.d.
11. Employee bath house, used 1941-1942 (Rains Coal Co.), 1971
12. Sutch, Robert and unidentified man, n.d.
13. Construction of coke ovens and related buildings (Columbia Steel), 1942-1943
14-15. Coke oven construction, 1942-1943
16. Coke oven construction worker, 1942-1943
17. Lunch time for pipefitter working on coke oven construction, 1942-1943
18-19. Pipefitters working at construction site of coke ovens (Sunnyside), 1942-1943
20. Coke oven construction, 1942-1943
21. Pipefitters working at construction site (Sunnyside), 1942-1943
22. Pipefitter for coke oven construction (Midwest Pipe Co.--Sunnyside, Utah), 1942-1943
23. Mutual Pool Hall, August 1971 [partially destroyed]
24. Bandstand (Standardville, Utah), 1971
25. Castle Gate, Utah, 1971
26-29. Sutch, Oliver home (Castle Gate, Utah), 1971
30-33. Sutch, Oliver home (Standardville, Utah), 1971