[Train and people at coal mine No. 12]

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Mounted, undated photograph of people by a train at the no. 12 coal mine in Thurber, Texas. The image is undated. The mines were owned by the Texas and Pacific Coal Company.
An accompanying undated photocopied press release states "Coal miners in Thurber, Texas, rode to and from work each day aborad a Texas and Pacific Coal Company train, a service begun by the company in 1895. The historic town between Abilene and Fort Worth has virtually disappeared and only the record of coal mining remains in Texas Tech University's Southwest Collection, historical reporsitory and research center. Texas Pacific Oil of Dallas recently donated the one million pages of Thurber history to Tech, boosting the repository's collection to 13 million leaves. The material will soon be available for research."

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The images in this collection are for study purposes, teaching, classroom projection and research only. To use these digital files in any form, an attribution of "Courtesy of the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library" must accompany the image.

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