Coal—heat, one of a set of fifteen murals by william mark young, shown and described in a brochure published to accompany the ohio state exhibit at the 1933 a century of progress international exhibition (aka "chicago world's fair"). The murals were subsequently relocated to the ohio statehouse. The accompanying description reads: "this mural is devoted to coal and its part in ohio industry, showing the indian process of fire making by the friction of his bow string and stick and its progress up to the present day miner, with modern mining tools. The vitality of coal to modern industrial life is suggested in the background. ". Date: 1933.
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