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Giant breaker of Lehigh Navigation Coal Company at Lansford, Pennsylvania

Giant breaker of Lehigh Navigation Coal Company at Lansford, Pennsylva...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Group of Breaker Boys in #9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough, Pennsylvania Coal Co. Smallest boy is Angelo Ross (see photos and labels #1953 & #1954). Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania

Group of Breaker Boys in #9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough, Pennsylvania ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1949. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

Huber Coal Breaker, Foothouse, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, Foothouse, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne ...

Survey number: HAER PA-204-C Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Four Breaker Boys working in #9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough. Boy on left is Tony Ross, 142 Panama Street, other small boy is Mike Rosa [i.e., Ross?], cousin.  Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.

Four Breaker Boys working in #9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough. Boy on le...

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Breaker #9, Hughestown Borough, Pennsylvania Coal Co. One of these is James Leonard. Corner Central St. & Ross St., Pittston, Pennsylvania Another is Stanley Rasmus, Main Street Near Church Street, Du Pont, Pennsylvania  Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.

Breaker #9, Hughestown Borough, Pennsylvania Coal Co. One of these is ...

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Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More

A view of Ewen Breaker of the Pennsylvania [Pennsylvania] Coal Co. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view. This dust penetrates the utmost recesses of the boys' lungs. (See also labels 1927 to 1930 for names of some of these.)  Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania.

A view of Ewen Breaker of the Pennsylvania [Pennsylvania] Coal Co. The...

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Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne Co...

Survey number: HAER PA-204-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne Co...

Survey number: HAER PA-204-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne Co...

Survey number: HAER PA-204-A Public domain photograph of industrial workers, factory building, work, assembly line, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne Co...

Survey number: HAER PA-204-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne Co...

Survey number: HAER PA-204-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne Co...

Survey number: HAER PA-204-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne Co...

Survey number: HAER PA-204-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Columbia Basin Project, Grand Coulee Siphon Breaker Building, Grand Coulee, Grant County, WA

Columbia Basin Project, Grand Coulee Siphon Breaker Building, Grand Co...

Significance: The Siphon-Breaker Building played a small but critical role in the process of delivering water from the Columbia River to the irrigation system. Its main function was to manage the flow at the to... More

[Breaker boys in Kohinor mine, Shenandoah City, Pennsylvania]

[Breaker boys in Kohinor mine, Shenandoah City, Pennsylvania]

Inscribed on verso: Kohinor Mine, Shenandoah City, Pa. 1891. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Who's Afraid of Women Photographers?" at the Musee d'Orsay, P... More

Marvine Colliery, Breaker No. 2, West side Boulevard Avenue, between East Parker Street & Route 380, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA

Marvine Colliery, Breaker No. 2, West side Boulevard Avenue, between E...

Significance: Marvine Colliery is important to local history for its relationship to the development of the Anthracite Mining Industry in northeast Pennsylvania, "The Anthracite Capital of the World" 1890-1930.... More

Marvine Colliery, Breaker No. 2, West side Boulevard Avenue, between East Parker Street & Route 380, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA

Marvine Colliery, Breaker No. 2, West side Boulevard Avenue, between E...

Significance: Marvine Colliery is important to local history for its relationship to the development of the Anthracite Mining Industry in northeast Pennsylvania, "The Anthracite Capital of the World" 1890-1930.... More

Marvine Colliery, Breaker No. 2, West side Boulevard Avenue, between East Parker Street & Route 380, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA

Marvine Colliery, Breaker No. 2, West side Boulevard Avenue, between E...

Significance: Marvine Colliery is important to local history for its relationship to the development of the Anthracite Mining Industry in northeast Pennsylvania, "The Anthracite Capital of the World" 1890-1930.... More

Marvine Colliery, Breaker No. 2, West side Boulevard Avenue, between East Parker Street & Route 380, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA

Marvine Colliery, Breaker No. 2, West side Boulevard Avenue, between E...

Significance: Marvine Colliery is important to local history for its relationship to the development of the Anthracite Mining Industry in northeast Pennsylvania, "The Anthracite Capital of the World" 1890-1930.... More

Locust Summit Central Breaker, State Route 2033, 1500 feet north of intersection with State Route 0901, Mount Carmel, Northumberland County, PA

Locust Summit Central Breaker, State Route 2033, 1500 feet north of in...

Significance: The Locust Summit Central Breaker is an example of a highly intact breaker complex, significant for its history and technology. The Locust Summit Central Breaker is illustrative of attempts by co... More

Locust Summit Central Breaker, State Route 2033, 1500 feet north of intersection with State Route 0901, Mount Carmel, Northumberland County, PA

Locust Summit Central Breaker, State Route 2033, 1500 feet north of in...

Significance: The Locust Summit Central Breaker is an example of a highly intact breaker complex, significant for its history and technology. The Locust Summit Central Breaker is illustrative of attempts by co... More

Train station Plymouth coal breaker, Pennsylvania - Public domain photograph.

Train station Plymouth coal breaker, Pennsylvania - Public domain phot...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Breaker boy - Public domain scan / photograph

Breaker boy - Public domain scan / photograph

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gilberton, Pennsylvania. A water cleaning tank at the Saint Nicholas breaker. The silt settles and is pumped off

Gilberton, Pennsylvania. A water cleaning tank at the Saint Nicholas b...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Discarded stockings go to war. Bleached silk stocking "material" being fed into the breaker machine for conversion into thread with which to make powder bags

Discarded stockings go to war. Bleached silk stocking "material" being...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An extra large breaker. Children paddling in the surf at Coney Island, N.Y.

An extra large breaker. Children paddling in the surf at Coney Island,...

H52577 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1904 by H.C. White Co. On mount: The "Perfec" Stereograph. (Trade Mark.) Patented April 14, 1903. No. 493.

Huber Coal Breaker, Power Plant, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, Power Plant, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzern...

Survey number: HAER PA-204-B Public domain photograph of a car, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More

Breaker boys in #9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough, Pennsylvania Coal Co. Smallest boy is Angelo Ross, (See labels #1953 + #1951.)  Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.

Breaker boys in #9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough, Pennsylvania Coal Co. ...

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Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne Co...

Survey number: HAER PA-204-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne Co...

Survey number: HAER PA-204-A Public domain photograph of industrial workers, factory building, work, assembly line, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne Co...

Survey number: HAER PA-204-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne Co...

Survey number: HAER PA-204-A Public domain photograph of quarry, mining industry, miners, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne Co...

Survey number: HAER PA-204-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Group of Breaker boys. Smallest is Sam Belloma, Pine Street. (See label #1949).  Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.

Group of Breaker boys. Smallest is Sam Belloma, Pine Street. (See labe...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, industrial facility, mining industry, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Locust Summit Central Breaker, State Route 2033, 1500 feet north of intersection with State Route 0901, Mount Carmel, Northumberland County, PA

Locust Summit Central Breaker, State Route 2033, 1500 feet north of in...

Significance: The Locust Summit Central Breaker is an example of a highly intact breaker complex, significant for its history and technology. The Locust Summit Central Breaker is illustrative of attempts by co... More

Locust Summit Central Breaker, State Route 2033, 1500 feet north of intersection with State Route 0901, Mount Carmel, Northumberland County, PA

Locust Summit Central Breaker, State Route 2033, 1500 feet north of in...

Significance: The Locust Summit Central Breaker is an example of a highly intact breaker complex, significant for its history and technology. The Locust Summit Central Breaker is illustrative of attempts by co... More

Locust Summit Central Breaker, State Route 2033, 1500 feet north of intersection with State Route 0901, Mount Carmel, Northumberland County, PA

Locust Summit Central Breaker, State Route 2033, 1500 feet north of in...

Significance: The Locust Summit Central Breaker is an example of a highly intact breaker complex, significant for its history and technology. The Locust Summit Central Breaker is illustrative of attempts by co... More

Locust Summit Central Breaker, State Route 2033, 1500 feet north of intersection with State Route 0901, Mount Carmel, Northumberland County, PA

Locust Summit Central Breaker, State Route 2033, 1500 feet north of in...

Significance: The Locust Summit Central Breaker is an example of a highly intact breaker complex, significant for its history and technology. The Locust Summit Central Breaker is illustrative of attempts by co... More

A view of Ewen Breaker of the Pennsylvania [Pennsylvania] Coal Co. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view. This dust penetrates the utmost recesses of the boy's lungs. (See labels 1927 to 1930 for names of some of these.) A kind of slave driver sometimes stands over the boys, prodding or kicking them into obedience.  Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania.

A view of Ewen Breaker of the Pennsylvania [Pennsylvania] Coal Co. The...

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Noon hour in the Ewen Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Co.  Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania.

Noon hour in the Ewen Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Co. Location: South ...

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

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne Co...

Survey number: HAER PA-204-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

National Child Labor Committee No. 954. 1-legged boy. Neil Gallagher, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania Born January 14, 1891. Went to work at about 9 years. Worked about two years in breaker. Went inside at about 11 years. "Tripper," tending door. 83 cents [a] day. Injured May 2, 1904. Leg crushed between cars. Amputated at Mercy Hospital, Wilkes Barre. "Baltimore Tunnell" - "Black Diamond" D. & H. Co. Thomas Lewellin Superintendent (inside boys); Samuel Morgan, Superintendent. In Hospital 9 weeks. Amputated twice. No charge. Received nothing from company. "Was riding between cars and we aren't supposed to ride between them." No written rules, but they tell you not to. Mule driver (who was on for first day) had taken his lamp and he tried to reach across car to get it. Slipped between bumpers. Been working in breakers since. Same place $1.10 a day. Work only about 1/2 time. Work about 6 hour day. Left 3 months ago. Been in N.Y. - no work. Trying to get work in Poolroom. Applicant at Bureau for Handicapped, 105 E. 22nd Street, N.Y. Nov. 1, 1909. Father living, (Mother dead.) Miner same place. Hurt month ago Rock fall. 2 brothers 25, 27. Home 15 Pennsylvania St.  Location: Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.

National Child Labor Committee No. 954. 1-legged boy. Neil Gallagher, ...

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Locust Summit Central Breaker, State Route 2033, 1500 feet north of intersection with State Route 0901, Mount Carmel, Northumberland County, PA

Locust Summit Central Breaker, State Route 2033, 1500 feet north of in...

Significance: The Locust Summit Central Breaker is an example of a highly intact breaker complex, significant for its history and technology. The Locust Summit Central Breaker is illustrative of attempts by co... More

Coal breaker no. [11], Avondale, Pennsylvania

Coal breaker no. [11], Avondale, Pennsylvania

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Gilberton, Pennsylvania. A rock crusher at the Saint Nicholas breaker, one of the two largest coal breakers in the world

Gilberton, Pennsylvania. A rock crusher at the Saint Nicholas breaker,...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A view of the Pennsylvania Breaker. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view. This dust penetrates the utmost recess of the boy's lungs.  Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania.

A view of the Pennsylvania Breaker. The dust was so dense at times as ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne Co...

Survey number: HAER PA-204-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Marvine Colliery, Breaker No. 2, West side Boulevard Avenue, between East Parker Street & Route 380, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA

Marvine Colliery, Breaker No. 2, West side Boulevard Avenue, between E...

Significance: Marvine Colliery is important to local history for its relationship to the development of the Anthracite Mining Industry in northeast Pennsylvania, "The Anthracite Capital of the World" 1890-1930.... More

Keith's Theatre News (pamphlet), 1906 Jail breaker

Keith's Theatre News (pamphlet), 1906 Jail breaker

Public domain scan of the book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Keith's Theatre News (pamphlet), 1906 Jail breaker

Keith's Theatre News (pamphlet), 1906 Jail breaker

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Dominion Alkali & Chemical Co., Ltd., Beaunhois [i.e. Beauharnois], Canada. Circuit breaker

Dominion Alkali & Chemical Co., Ltd., Beaunhois [i.e. Beauharnois], Ca...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mr. A. Langerfeld and one of his machines for picking coal which does away completely with the use of breaker boys. The percent of slate that goes in with the coal separated by this machine is 1% to 2%, where the percent with the old primitive method of using boys is from 15% to 60%. This picture was taken at the breaker of the Spencer Coal Co., at Scranton, Pennsylvania, on March, 18, 1913. Location: Scranton, Pennsylvania

Mr. A. Langerfeld and one of his machines for picking coal which does ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3504. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Woodward coal breaker, Kingston, Pennsylvania

Woodward coal breaker, Kingston, Pennsylvania

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne Co...

Survey number: HAER PA-204-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne Co...

Survey number: HAER PA-204-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Breaker boys in #9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough, Pennsylvania Coal Co. Smallest boy is Angelo Ross, (See labels #1953 + #1951.) Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania

Breaker boys in #9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough, Pennsylvania Coal Co. ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1950. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Three Phase Tri Level Circuit Breaker, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Three Phase Tri Level Circuit Breake...

Significance: In order to perform such functions as servicing, maintenance, re-configuring and fault protection, it is necessary that there be some means for disconnecting the load (electric furnaces, motors, e... More

Huber Coal Breaker, Power Plant, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, Power Plant, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzern...

Survey number: HAER PA-204-B Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne Co...

Survey number: HAER PA-204-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Westmoreland breaker - A black and white photo of a train going down the tracks

Westmoreland breaker - A black and white photo of a train going down t...

Coal breaker, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Wittemann Collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne Co...

Survey number: HAER PA-204-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Locust Summit Central Breaker, State Route 2033, 1500 feet north of intersection with State Route 0901, Mount Carmel, Northumberland County, PA

Locust Summit Central Breaker, State Route 2033, 1500 feet north of in...

Significance: The Locust Summit Central Breaker is an example of a highly intact breaker complex, significant for its history and technology. The Locust Summit Central Breaker is illustrative of attempts by co... More

Locust Summit Central Breaker, State Route 2033, 1500 feet north of intersection with State Route 0901, Mount Carmel, Northumberland County, PA

Locust Summit Central Breaker, State Route 2033, 1500 feet north of in...

Significance: The Locust Summit Central Breaker is an example of a highly intact breaker complex, significant for its history and technology. The Locust Summit Central Breaker is illustrative of attempts by co... More

Keith's Theatre News (pamphlet), 1906 Jail breaker

Keith's Theatre News (pamphlet), 1906 Jail breaker

Public domain scan of the book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Keith's Theatre News (pamphlet), 1906 Jail breaker

Keith's Theatre News (pamphlet), 1906 Jail breaker

Public domain scan of the book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Keith's Theatre News (pamphlet), 1906 Jail breaker

Keith's Theatre News (pamphlet), 1906 Jail breaker

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These are all breaker-boys. (See photos taken at Ewen Breaker, later.) They were very suspicious of my motives. Sam Bellom (boy on left end of photo), 58 Pine Street. Been working in breaker #9 for two years, he says. He says, also, that he is 14 years old, but does not appear to be? Sam Topent (next to Bellom), 52 Pine Street. Been working at Ewen Breaker two years. Said, "I'm fourteen years, an' if you don' believe me, I kin show you de proofs." (They were all suspicious.) This boy had told the School Principal the other day that he was 13 years old, which may be too high. James Ritz (in middle), 28 Pine Street. Been working one year at Ewen Breaker. Said, "14 years old," but this is unbelievable. Mikey Captan (small boy on James' left) 45 Pine St. Been working one year at Ewen Breaker, said he was 12 years old, but doesn't appear to be that. Tony Captan (right end of photo), 45 Pine St. Been working in Ewen Breaker one year. I found these boys and many others, working at Ewen Breaker, and photographed them (see photos).  Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.

These are all breaker-boys. (See photos taken at Ewen Breaker, later.)...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Coal breaker, Pike County, Kentucky

Coal breaker, Pike County, Kentucky

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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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1932. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

A view of the Pennsylvania Breaker. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view. This dust penetrates the utmost recess of the boy's lungs.  Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania.

A view of the Pennsylvania Breaker. The dust was so dense at times as ...

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Four Breaker Boys working in #9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough. Boy on left is Tony Ross, 142 Panama Street, other small boy is Mike Rosa [i.e., Ross?], cousin.  Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.

Four Breaker Boys working in #9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough. Boy on le...

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Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne Co...

Survey number: HAER PA-204-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

All work in Ewen Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Co. (see photos taken at breaker later). Philip Kurato (on left end of photo) 177 So. Main St., Pittston, Pennsylvania Working in breaker for 6 months, said he was 12 years old, but doesn't appear to be that. Told the school Principal the other day he was 13 years old. Jo Tabone (middle) 141 Thompkin St., benn i.e., been working three years in Ewen Breaker. Said 14 years old but doesn't appear to be. Charlie Bootha (right-end) said he was 12 years old. Works at Ewen Breaker. Lives in Sebastopol. Couldn't spell his own name and didn't know name of street he lives on. Seems to be under 12 years old. All were suspicious of my sending them to school. Philip Kurato's step-mother told me (through an interpreter) that he has a birth certificate showing him to be 13 years old; that he has been working in the breaker for two years - and that Squire Barrett gave him his working papers. The step-mother owns a home near by, said to be worth $1,500. Location: Port Griffith, Pennsylvania

All work in Ewen Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Co. (see photos taken at b...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1930. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

Group of boys working in #9 Breaker Pennsylvania Coal Co, Hughestown Borough, Pittstown, Pa. In this group were Sam Belloma, Pine Street, Angelo Ross, 142 Panama Street, and others (reported previously).  Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.
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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1931. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

Four Breaker Boys working in #9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough. Boy on left is Tony Ross, 142 Panama Street, other small boy is Mike Rosa i.e., Ross?, cousin. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania

Four Breaker Boys working in #9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough. Boy on le...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1951. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

Huber Coal Breaker, Power Plant, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, Power Plant, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzern...

Survey number: HAER PA-204-B Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, 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...

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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...

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Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More

Comparison of Baptisimal Record and Age Certificate of Stanley Letuvinak (American name, Thomas Long). Born according to baptismal record May 10, 1897; date of birth given in age certificate was June 10, 1893, in order to make him 14 years of age. He was killed by falling from a breaker at Wanamie, Pa., when only 10 years of age. The Coroner's Jury, said in its report, "We find said company not responsible for the accident as they held affidavit from his father that he was 14 and the boy was away from his work when the accident occurred." (See also notes from Coroner's Docket, 1910 report of L.W. Hine.)  Location: [Pennsylvania]
Gilberton, Pennsylvania. A car of coal, straight from the Maple Hill mine near Shenandoah, being dumped into the Saint Nicholas breaker

Gilberton, Pennsylvania. A car of coal, straight from the Maple Hill m...

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Four Breaker Boys working in #9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough. Boy on left is Tony Ross, 142 Panama Street, other small boy is Mike Rosa i.e., Ross?, cousin. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania

Four Breaker Boys working in #9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough. Boy on le...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1951. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

Columbia Basin Project, Grand Coulee Siphon Breaker Building, Grand Coulee, Grant County, WA

Columbia Basin Project, Grand Coulee Siphon Breaker Building, Grand Co...

Significance: The Siphon-Breaker Building played a small but critical role in the process of delivering water from the Columbia River to the irrigation system. Its main function was to manage the flow at the to... More

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