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[Breaker boys in Kohinor mine, Shenandoah City, Pa.] – Historic Print

[Breaker boys in Kohinor mine, Shenandoah City, Pa.], [1891] — historic photograph
[Breaker boys in Kohinor mine, Shenandoah City, Pa.], [1891]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Breaker boys at the Kohinor mine in Shenandoah City, Pennsylvania, worked over chutes in the coal breaker, picking slate and stone out of anthracite as it rushed past. The work was dusty, deafening and dangerous, and boys often as young as 8 or 10 suffered cut hands and damaged lungs. This 1891 cyanotype, a blue-toned contact print, belongs to the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection at the Library of Congress. Photographs of child labor in the coal region like this one later helped reformers make their case for protective laws.

Created / published[1891]
Medium1 photographic print : cyanotype.
GenreCyanotypes 1890-1900.
NotesFrances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsChild laborers--Pennsylvania--Shenandoah City--1890-1900. Coal mining--Pennsylvania--Shenandoah City--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,457 × 1,152 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216441

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