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Title: Empire Mine, East Coulee, Alberta
Institution: Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, University of Saskatchewan
Description: Image of a miners wash house and employee barracks at Empire Mine, a Federated Co-operatives-owned coal mine located near East Coulee, Alberta . Freight cars, telephone wires, and wire fence in background. Circa 1940s. Written in pencil on back of photo: “old Empire Mine (East Coulee) near Drumheller.”
Call Number: CSCPrint_0015, coopcentre:1716

Title: Hy-grade Mine staff dinner
Institution: Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, University of Saskatchewan
Description: Image of nine men and eight women at a staff dinner marking the closure of the Hy-Grade mine, a Federated Co-operatives-owned coal mine located near Drumheller, Alberta; circa 1962. Details include decorative streamers and crêpe paper bells, a floral tablecloth, and various items on table, including saltshakers and peppershakers, dessert glasses, drinking glasses, cups and saucers, ashtrays, and a packet of cigarettes. Written in pencil on back of photo: “Staff dinner…closing of Hygrade mine approx. 1962"
Call Number: CSCPrint_0013, coopcentre:1714

Title: Empire Mine, East Coulee, Alberta
Institution: Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, University of Saskatchewan
Description: 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.
Call Number: CSCPrint_0014, coopcentre:1715