This 1869 Harper’s Weekly illustration shows crowds gathered in Pennsylvania’s Coal Region as the remains of a victim of the Avondale Mine Disaster were carried to a funeral. The scene captures a community in mourning in the days after the region’s deadliest mining catastrophe. The Avondale Mine Disaster killed 110 men and boys in September 1869, making it the deadliest mine disaster in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania. While this engr…
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