[Breaker boys in Kohinor mine, Shenandoah City, Pa.] – Historic Reproduction
![[Breaker boys in Kohinor mine, Shenandoah City, Pa.], [1891] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8f/8f4b625a145f-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with [Breaker boys in Kohinor mine, Shenandoah City, Pa.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Breaker boys in Kohinor mine, Shenandoah City, Pa.]
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Breaker boys at the Kohinor mine in Shenandoah City, Pennsylvania, are the subject of this cyanotype, a process that produces the deep blue tone seen here. The boys worked in the breaker, a large wooden structure where mined anthracite was crushed and sorted, picking out slate and other impurities by hand as coal rushed past them. The work was dusty, loud, and dangerous, and many of the workers were children. This print is part of the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection, and images like it helped show the public the conditions of anthracite mining in the 1890s.
| Created / published | [1891] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : cyanotype. |
| Genre | Cyanotypes 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Child laborers--Pennsylvania--Shenandoah City--1890-1900. Coal mining--Pennsylvania--Shenandoah City--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,135 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-128450 |
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