old pictures from the coal fields

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I recently stumbled across a site http://www.elkhornhigh.com/places1.htm containing a couple of panorama shots (divided into multiple frames) of Switchback and Upland in the pre-electification era.  Coke ovens are busy and the area around the mines and tracks are totally stripped of vegitation, so my guess is that they may have been made prior to 1900.  I am hoping some of the Pokey students out there may be able to narrow down the date and exact locations where these great shots were taken.  Also, is anyone aware of such photos of other mines/locations in this area.  I would find it hard to believe that whoever went to the trouble of making these extrordinary landscape photographs would have limited themselves to only these two sets of mining operations when similar photo-ops presented themselves every few hundred feet along the line from Coopers to Vivian or beyond.  Of course as is always our potential bane in attempting this form of time travel, other photos may have been taken, but may now be lost to us.  It seems like I remember seeing such a picture taken at Maybeury in the early years, displayed at our convention a few years back.  Does anyone remember who brought it and/or if they might be willing to allow it to be re-photographed for publication in the Arrow?
Jim Cochran
dcochran116 at roadrunner.com
 
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