My favorite photo is a photo of my father, Joseph James Givens, as he went to work at the Bingham copper mine in Douglas, Arizona in 1929. Fortunately he was a miner for only a short time. I mean his father had been a hard rock gold miner and had died in a mine explosion about 11 years earlier.
Why this outfit? I would imagine it was to keep him from breathing the rock dust and getting miner's lung. My mother's father got miner's lung working in coal mines as a young man. Let's just say mining was a dangerous business.
In any case this unique photo has to be my favorite!
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