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Harry and Sallie. Driver in Maryland Coal Co. Mine, near Sand Lick, Grafton, W. Va. Was afraid to be photo'd because we might make him go to school. Probably 12 years old. Location: Grafton, West Virginia. – Antique Photo Print

Harry and Sallie. Driver in Maryland Coal Co. Mine, near Sand Lick, Grafton, W. Va. Was afraid to be photo'd because we might make him go to school. Probably 12 years old. Location: Grafton, West Virginia., 1908 October. — historic photograph
Harry and Sallie. Driver in Maryland Coal Co. Mine, near Sand Lick, Grafton, W. Va. Was afraid to be photo'd because we might make him go to school. Probably 12 years old. Location: Grafton, West Virginia., 1908 October.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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This rare historic photograph captures Harry and Sallie. Driver in Maryland Coal Co. Mine, near Sand Lick, Grafton, W. Va. Was afraid to be photo'd because we might make him go to school. Probably 12 years old. Location: Grafton, West Virginia. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Harry and Sallie. Driver in Maryland Coal Co. Mine, near Sand Lick, Grafton, W. Va. Was afraid to be photo'd because we might make him go to school. Probably 12 years old. Location: Grafton, West Virginia.

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A mule named Sallie and a boy named Harry, a driver for the Maryland Coal Co. mine near Sand Lick in Grafton, West Virginia, appear together in this October 1908 photograph. The original caption card notes that the boy, probably about 12, was wary of being photographed because he feared it might lead to him being sent to school. Lewis Hine, who documented child labor for the National Child Labor Committee, is credited as the photographer based on the collection's provenance. Mule drivers like Harry hauled loaded coal cars through the mine passages, work that kept many boys out of school in the early twentieth century.

Created / published1908 October.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints.
NotesTitle from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 0156.
SubjectsBoys. Muleteers. Coal mining. Mules.United States--West Virginia--Grafton.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,103 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-155793

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