Boys PIcking Slate in a Great Coal Breaker, Anthracite Mines, Pennsylvania
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Keystone View Company
American, 1892–1963
Boys PIcking Slate in a Great Coal Breaker, Anthracite Mines, Pennsylvania
ca. 1920
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7.8 x 7.6 cm (each image)
Mount: 8.6 x 17.8 cm
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2009
2009.0294.0010
Inscriptions recto (printed in black): Keystone View Company / Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood / Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers /
Meadville, Pa., New York, N.Y., Portland, / Oregon. London, Eng., Sydney, Aus. /
V20376-Boys Picking Slate in a Great Coal Breaker, / Anthracite Mines, Pennsylvania.
verso (printed in black): 11258. INdustries.-Geography.-Coal breakers-/ the buildings in which the coal is sorted and cleaned / and prepared for the market-were once set up near / the mouth of a mine. In 1885 a law was passed pro /hibiting the erection of such an inflammable building / within two hundred feet of the mine opening. To save / breaker hoisting the breaker is built, if possible, on / sloping ground so its head is on the same level as the mine or shaft mouth. [extended text] / Refer again to this view when considering People and Homes, / Economic History, Child Life. / [title listed in 6 languages]
Meadville, Pa., New York, N.Y., Portland, / Oregon. London, Eng., Sydney, Aus. /
V20376-Boys Picking Slate in a Great Coal Breaker, / Anthracite Mines, Pennsylvania.
verso (printed in black): 11258. INdustries.-Geography.-Coal breakers-/ the buildings in which the coal is sorted and cleaned / and prepared for the market-were once set up near / the mouth of a mine. In 1885 a law was passed pro /hibiting the erection of such an inflammable building / within two hundred feet of the mine opening. To save / breaker hoisting the breaker is built, if possible, on / sloping ground so its head is on the same level as the mine or shaft mouth. [extended text] / Refer again to this view when considering People and Homes, / Economic History, Child Life. / [title listed in 6 languages]
