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412-DA-14026

10/22/2021

 
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Photography by Jack Corn
Fireco, West Virginia
​April 1974
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Edward Austin, 64, lives in the Black portion of Fireco, a small town near Beckley, West Virginia, in Raleigh County. He receives Black lung benefits and a United Mine Workers Pension, after working in the mines from 1925 to 1956. He has 20 children and does not regret having them one bit.

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