Image of Empire Mine, a Federated Co-operatives-owned coal mine located near East Coulee, Alberta. Car parked next to a building marked as “Empire Collieries,” with the word “office” painted in smaller lettering above. Smaller building visible behind the office. Building marked as the “miner’s wash house” can be seen in the distance. Two buildings (one mounted on large wooden platform), coal cart, and freight car seen on right-hand side of photo. "Empire Coal" discernible on second building (first word obscured). Written in pencil on back of photo: “Old Empire Mine (East Coulee) near Drumheller.” Circa 1940s.