A young leader and a driver, Shaft #6, Pennsylvania Coal Company. Pasquale Salvo and Sandy Castina. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania. – Antique Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of A young leader and a driver, Shaft #6, Pennsylvania Coal Company. Pasquale Salvo and Sandy Castina. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A young leader and a driver, Shaft #6, Pennsylvania Coal Company. Pasquale Salvo and Sandy Castina. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.
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Two boys, Pasquale Salvo and Sandy Castina, are shown at Shaft No. 6 of the Pennsylvania Coal Company in Pittston, with a mule in the scene, as the title's "young leader" and "driver" suggest. The January 1911 date places it in the years when the National Child Labor Committee was documenting young workers in the anthracite region, and the print is attributed to Lewis Hine on the basis of its provenance. Hine's photographs of boys at work in mines and mills were used to press for child labor reform, so the picture is worth studying for what it shows of daily labor in the pits.
| 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. 1921. |
| Subjects | Boys. Coal miners. Muleteers. Mules. Coal mining.United States--Pennsylvania--Pittston. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,088 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-114830 |
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