English: Title: The Aladdin Tipple in Aladdin, Wyoming, one of the last surviving coal tipples (as of 2015) in the American West

Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.

Notes: Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.; Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:069).; A tipple was modern mining technology in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The upper, roofed structure received coal from the mountainside and stored it. When a trap door was opened, gravity sent the coal downward while three chutes inside a large one sorted the coal by nut, egg, or lump size before depositing it into train cars below.