The Sibley breaker, Pennsylvania, as captured in 1886, destroyed by fire on June 23, 1906.
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This looks almost like a Gottfried Böhm's church... Storrs Breaker, Steamtown, c. 1905
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Oxford Breaker, Scranton, Pennsylvania, c. 1907-1910
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Another breaker in Scranton
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The Bast Colliery breaker, on the east side of Big Mine Run Creek, as captured circa 1920 pagenweb.org/~schuylkill/ca
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It's no doubt an impressive building, but t's also a habitable bonfire in terms of material.
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reminds me of the Kennecott Copper Mill in Wrangell St-Elias. was this used for crushin' rocks too?
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scroll down the page to find some old pictures and postcards of breakers
upthewoods.net/anthracite-coa
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These brutalist buildings were also...super brutal! "breaker boys could often easily be identified by checking scarred and mutilated hands that were minus one or more fingers."
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