Coal breaker, anthracite coal mining, Scranton, Pa. – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures Coal breaker, anthracite coal mining, Scranton, Pa. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Coal breaker, anthracite coal mining, Scranton, Pa.
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This stereograph shows a coal breaker in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the city at the heart of the state's anthracite region. Breakers were large wooden structures where mined coal was crushed and sorted by size, and they were often noisy, dusty places where boys worked picking slate and other impurities from the coal stream.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No. 7059. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Pa.--Scranton; Mines...--Coal; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,424 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-140616 |
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