Noon hour in the Ewen Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Co. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania. – Vintage 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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Noon hour in the Ewen Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Co. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Noon hour in the Ewen Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Co. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania.
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Few workplaces in the anthracite fields were as hard on young workers as the breaker, and this January 1911 view of the Ewen Breaker at South Pittston, operated by the Pennsylvania Coal Co., shows its boys and men during the noon hour, away from the machinery. The title comes from a National Child Labor Committee caption card, and the print is attributed to Lewis Hine on the basis of its provenance. Breaker boys, who picked slate from coal as it moved along chutes, were a common concern of child labor reformers, and Hine's pictures of such workplaces helped the committee make its case to the public.
| Created / published | 1911 January. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints. |
| Notes | Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1945. |
| Subjects | Boys. Men. Coal miners.United States--Pennsylvania--South Pittston. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,095 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-114840 |
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