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Image Description: | Beckley, West Virginia - Retired coal miner Jack Turner leads visitors on a tour of the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine. The low-seam coal mine operated during the first half of the 20th century as the Phillips-Sprague Mine. Turner shows a cage that miners would use to take a canary into the mine; the bird's sudden death would warn miners to evacuate because of the presence of toxic gases. |
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