The Sibley breaker, Pennsylvania, as captured in 1886, destroyed by fire on June 23, 1906.
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William A. Colliery, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania
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This looks almost like a Gottfried Böhm's church... Storrs Breaker, Steamtown, c. 1905
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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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I 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.
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