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Coal breaker boys - Public domain portrait photograph

Coal breaker boys - Public domain portrait photograph

Public domain photograph related to child labor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Boy braking on motor train 10 hrs. a day. Where mining, loading, etc. is done by machinery. Live wire above is sometimes not higher than a man's head. Location: Gary, West Virginia.

Boy braking on motor train 10 hrs. a day. Where mining, loading, etc. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a miner, coal mine, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Breaker of the Chauncy (Pennsylvania) Colliery, where a 15 year old breaker-boy was smothered to death and another badly burned, Jan. 7, 1911. (Photo of newspaper clipping #1946.) The Coroner told me that the McKee boy was but a few days past his 15th birthday when he was killed, and that the evidence seemed to show that he was at work in another breaker before his 14th birthday. (He will report to us on that point, further.) Location: Chauncy, Pennsylvania.

Breaker of the Chauncy (Pennsylvania) Colliery, where a 15 year old br...

Public domain photograph of industrial building, factory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Breaker of the Chauncy (Pennsylvania) Colliery, where a 15 year old breaker-boy was smothered to death and another badly burned, Jan. 7, 1911. (Photo of newspaper clipping #1946.) The Coroner told me that the McKee boy was but a few days past his 15th birthday when he was killed, and that the evidence seemed to show that he was at work in another breaker before his 14th birthday. (He will report to us on that point, further.) Location: Chauncy, Pennsylvania.

Breaker of the Chauncy (Pennsylvania) Colliery, where a 15 year old br...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Breaker boy - Public domain scan / photograph

Breaker boy - Public domain scan / photograph

Jacket title: Breaker boy, Kingston, Pa. "Ext" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 032070. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Breaker of the Chauncy (Pennsylvania) Colliery, where a 15 year old breaker-boy was smothered to death and another badly burned, Jan. 7, 1911. (Photo of newspaper clipping #1946.) The Coroner told me that the McKee boy was but a few days past his 15th birthday when he was killed, and that the evidence seemed to show that he was at work in another breaker before his 14th birthday. (He will report to us on that point, further.) Location: Chauncy, Pennsylvania.

Breaker of the Chauncy (Pennsylvania) Colliery, where a 15 year old br...

Public domain photograph of industrial building, factory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Breaker of the Chauncy (Pennsylvania) Colliery, where a 15 year old breaker-boy was smothered to death and another badly burned, Jan. 7, 1911. (Photo of newspaper clipping #1946.) The Coroner told me that the McKee boy was but a few days past his 15th birthday when he was killed, and that the evidence seemed to show that he was at work in another breaker before his 14th birthday. (He will report to us on that point, further.) Location: Chauncy, Pennsylvania.

Breaker of the Chauncy (Pennsylvania) Colliery, where a 15 year old br...

Public domain photograph of Industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description