Jon Chase

COAL COUNTRY

Coalminer on graveyard shift, Twilight, W.Va.
   
Mine supervisor driving to check on mine during strike, Norton, Va. The pistol on the seat, as well as two rifles under the seat, were for protection in case anyone fired shots at his truck, thinking he was a scab going to work.
   
Harlan, Ky. drive-in surrounded by strip-mined hills.
     
  
Rattlesnake church service, Micco, W.Va.
   
One hundredth day of coal strike, Harlan, Ky.
   
Disabled coalminer and wife, Harlan, Ky. Shortly after this photo was taken, the man trained a rifle on his wife, threatened to kill her, and fired several shots into the wall of his one-room cabin.
     
  
Miners pass the time with a state trooper during coal strike.
   
Barmaid, W.Va.
   
Faith healing, Micco, W.Va. The 15-year-old son of this minister had been bitten and killed by a rattlesnake one month earlier.
     
  
Railroad worker, W.Va.
   
Two coalminer brothers, one union, one non-union, Norton, Va.
   
Father and daughter near Briarbranch, Ky.
     
  
Tobacco hired hand, Jackson, Ky.
   
Riverboat pilot in bar at ten in the morning, Charleston, W.Va.
   
Willy Turner, Briarbranch, Ky. "I may be single, but I don't live alone. I live with Jesus."
     
  
Mother and daughter, Rowe's Restaurant, Kyle, W.Va.
  
Resting miners on graveyard shift, Twilight, W.Va.
   
Tent revival, Briarbranch, Ky.