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Miner waiting for ride home. Each miner pays twenty-five cents a week to owner of car. Capels, West Virginia.
I doubt that it was this truck that was going to make the commuter run, but it might well be. There’s a tool chest in the truck bed, along with what looks like an upholstered truck bench next to it–it certainly wasn’t abandoned because the truck still has its wheels.
In the detail of the picture it seems as though someone made repairs to the truck bed’s wooden racks with wire or rope rather than with nails (jsut to the left of the miner’s right shoulder). Picture source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs, ca. 1938.)
