Miners with Black Lung, 1970s (gallery)

  • Jack Corn, "A Miner at the Black Lung Laboratory in the Appalachian Regional Hospital in Beckley, West Virginia, Is Having His Lung Capacity Tested to Determine Whether He Has the Disease. Blood Samples Also Are Taken and His Heartbeat Is Monitored While Walking on a Treadmill. These and Other Known Testing Methods Are Used to Determine If Miners Have Coal Dust Particles in Their Lungs Which Cause a Progressive Shortness of Breath 06/1974." Documerica
  • Jack Corn, "A Miner at the Black Lung Laboratory in the Appalachian Regional Hospital in Beckley, West Virginia, Is Having His Lung Capacity Tested to Determine Whether He Has the Disease. Blood Samples Also Are Taken and His Heartbeat Is Monitored While Walking on a Treadmill. These and Other Known Testing Methods Are Used to Determine If Miners Have Coal Dust Particles in Their Lungs Which Cause a Progressive Shortness of Breath 06/1974." Documerica
  • Jack Corn, "Retired Coal Miner Ed Austin with Some of His 20 Children in Fireco, West Virginia, near Beckley. The 64-Year-Old Worked in the Mines From 1925 to 1956. He Receives Black Lung Payments and a United Mine Workers Pension 04/1974." Documerica
Library Item date: 
2019