Federico Italiano@FedeItaliano76·Jun 17, 2019The Sibley breaker, Pennsylvania, as captured in 1886, destroyed by fire on June 23, 1906.265372,631
Federico Italiano@FedeItaliano76·Jun 18, 2019This looks almost like a Gottfried Böhm's church... Storrs Breaker, Steamtown, c. 1905223196
Federico Italiano@FedeItaliano76Oxford Breaker, Scranton, Pennsylvania, c. 1907-19101:07 PM · Jun 18, 2019·Twitter Web Client12 Retweets145 Likes
Federico Italiano@FedeItaliano76·Jun 18, 2019Replying to @FedeItaliano76Another breaker in Scranton23110
Federico Italiano@FedeItaliano76·Jun 18, 2019The Bast Colliery breaker, on the east side of Big Mine Run Creek, as captured circa 1920 http://pagenweb.org/~schuylkill/castle/castle20.jpg…10106
“Chris”@hoagiedad·Jun 18, 2019Replying to @FedeItaliano76I grew up in this region of Pennsylvania. Breakers like these mostly employed children because they were cheap labor and they needed their small fingers to pick slate out of the coal.2