Iowa's Incredible Exposition Palaces
Sioux City Corn Palace
Central Iowa coal mine
Cultivating corn
The Flax Palace, 1890
The Flax Palace
Creston's Blue Grass Palace
Coal Mining Towns and the Coal Palace
Coal Mine in Central Iowa, 1936
Time Frame: 1930s
A coal mine in central Iowa. Coal was used to heat homes and for cooking in areas of the state where firewood was not available. Iowa coal mining declined in the late 1930s. December 1936.
Photographer: Russell Lee
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection
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