c.1910 USA set of 4 photos: Appalachia locomotive +coal miners, etc.

Set of 4 large photos with common provenance.  Identification:

• 2 West Virginia
• 1 railway locomotive, likely in Appalachia
• 1 large family photo, no location

Two W. VA. photos taken by photographer William O. Trevey, studio located in Glen Jean, Fayette County, West Virginia.

The town was a center for the coal mining industry and a railroad junction, formerly boasting an opera house, hotels and a company store.

Both photos with blind‑embossed studio stamp ‘TREVEY Photographer GLEN JEAN, W. VA’ used by Trevey on his mounts between roughly 1905–1915.

Locomotive #380 photo

Photo is of Chesapeake & Ohio Railway locomotive No. 380. Painted on side, below engineer window ‘C. O.’, ‘380’ painted on coal tender. 

Stopped at a train station, with 5 men standing beside it. Coal car is full, not any railways cars coupled. 

Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (C&O) #380, G‑9 class, Type: 2‑8‑0 “Consolidation”

Primary Service was heavy coal and manifest freight. Operated primarily West Virginia, Kentucky, and Virginia divisions. Heavily used in southern West Virginia coalfields, including the New River, Kanawha, and Guyandotte divisions.

Mount has scuffs. Edge damage left side, corner chips, crease LL corner. Photo has some rust spots    

Mount:  9 ⅞” x 12”   Photo:  6“ x 8”        

Photo 4 men, very likely coal miners 

Several details strongly match early West Virginia coalfield portraits

• Bib overalls with heavy fabric
• Work shirts with rolled sleeves
• Soft work hats (not stiff fedoras or bowlers)
•  Studio portrait taken in work clothes, which was extremely common among miners who wanted to be photographed “as they worked”
• The somber, direct expression typical of mining portrait
• The four-man grouping, often representing a pit crew or a drift team
• Coal miners in southern WV frequently posed exactly like this when visiting a town photographer on payday.

Mount has major stains. corners missing chips, cut upper border corner. Photo few edge chips

Mount:  12” x 9 ⅞” Photo:  8” x 6”      

c. 1916 Locomotive #16 photo

Likely Toledo-Detroit Railroad locomotive #16. Locomotive with engineer and 3 train crew. Appears to be under repair (no wheels?). 

Toledo-Detroit Railroad 16 is the only 4-4-0 at IRM and one of the most modern examples of that wheel arrangement in preservation anywhere. The 4-4-0 was so ubiquitous on American railroads between the 1850s and early 1900s that it was called the American type. By the early 1900s very few were being built, as larger types became more popular, but occasionally a few 4-4-0s were still built for passenger duse. The Toledo-Detroit aspired to be an electric interurban line linking Toledo with Ann Arbor but never electrified. It purchased this engine but in 1916 the Detroit Toledo & Ironton bought the T-D for its route into Toledo. Number 16 was used in passenger service in southeast Michigan until it was retired to the Henry Ford Museum, which traded it to IRM in 1984.

https://www.irm.org/player/td16/

Mount has stains, couple corner chips. Photo has rust spots 

Mount:  10” x 12”   Photo:  6 ½” x 8  ½”  

Large family photo

Twenty-one (21) family members posing outside of building. Toddler to seniors

Writing on back in pencil, to de decoded.

Mount has pieces missing.

Mount:  10” x 12”  Photo:  6 ½” x 8  ½”  

William O. Trevey was a prominent photographer born in 1879 in Virginia, known for capturing the lives of coal miners in the New River coalfields of West Virginia. He operated a photography studio in Glen Jean from about 1898 until the late 1920s, where he documented various lifestyles, including portraits of hunters, gamblers, and workers. Trevey's work is part of the William O. Trevey Glass Slide Collection, which offers insights into the daily lives of coal miners during the turn of the 20th century. His extensive photographic records are now available for public access, preserving a significant part of an era that now lives only in legend.