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| View Original: | The Aladdin Tipple in Aladdin, Wyoming, one of the last surviving coal tipples (as of 2015) in the American West LCCN2015634167.tif.tiff (5792x5943) | |||
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| Keywords: The Aladdin Tipple in Aladdin, Wyoming, one of the last surviving coal tipples (as of 2015) in the American West LCCN2015634167.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Forms part of Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Credit line Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 069 ; A tipple was modern mining technology in the late 1800s and early 1900s The upper roofed structure received coal from the mountainside and stored it When a trap door was opened gravity sent the coal downward while three chutes inside a large one sorted the coal by nut egg or lump size before depositing it into train cars below 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015634167 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/34100/34151a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 34151 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 34151 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||