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Title	The Mountaineer
Subject	Hanna Mining Coal yards Coal Machinery Mining equipment
Description	"'The Mountaineer' : To it's very tip, THE MOUNTAINEER, the world's largest shovel rises 160 feet into the air (the height of a 16-story building), The shovel has a 60 cubic-yard dipper (90 tons), a boom 150 feet long, a dipper handle 92 feet long, a dumping diameter of 290 feet, and a dumping height of 97 feet. With its lifting power of 500,000 pounds (250 tons) THE MOUNTAINEER has the power to lift a platform containing 166 - 1-1/2 ton automobiles 100 feet into the air, swing them through the air the length of a football field, set them down on top of a 10 story building, and swing back for another load - and all this in 45 seconds." -- photo verso.
Location Depicted	Cadiz (Ohio)
Time Period	Post-Industrial: 1930-1959
Date Original	1956-02-18
Object Type	black-and-white photographs
Size of Original	10 x 8 in.
Digital Collection	Cleveland Press Collection
Collection Homepage	http://www.clevelandmemory.org/press/
Donor	Cole, Joseph E.
Copyright	http://www.clevelandmemory.org/copyright/
Format	jpeg
Language	English
Photo Number	A26294
Repository	Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections.
Repository Collection	Cleveland Press (PH2000.000PRE)
Repository Homepage	http://library.csuohio.edu/speccoll/index.html
Digital Publisher	Cleveland Memory Project

The Mountaineer

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