The Sibley breaker, Pennsylvania, as captured in 1886, destroyed by fire on June 23, 1906—instagram.com/p/CG1_8PtjtLM/
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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
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Coal Breaker, Forty Fort, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, ca. 1905
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Cathedrals of industrialism. Do you suppose they designed them to look like this, or did they start with one roofed area and then just keep adding on? Here in Pennsylvania, everyone whose family has been here for several generations has family who started in the mines.