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Kleckner photographed anthracite mining scenes in the Panther Valley area near Mauch Chunk. PA, by the H. C. White Company in the bituminous coal region (1900-1910), and by Underwood and Underwood (1895-1910). None of the early images by M. A. Kleckner show miners working inside underground mines. It was not until the use of electricity in mines that
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08.01.2017Here are 15 rare coal mining photos from Pennsylvania that provide a glimpse into the coal mining industry's vibrant past. 1. Children work in the coal mines, while being supervised by an adult with a stick, in Wilkes-Barre in 1906. Flickr/Janet Lindenmuth. 2.
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THREE ink blots on the eastern end of the map of Pennsylvania, between the Delaware and the Susquehanna rivers, represent all the anthracite coal in the United States. They cover an area of 488 square miles, and produced last year 53,500,000 tons,--truly infinite riches in a little room. They are popularly known as the Wyoming, Lehigh, and
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19.12.2015Here are 25 images from the 1930s and 1940s that provide some insight into coal work and workers during those decades. 25. A coal miner in Jenkins via 1935. 24. A coal mining town in Floyd County, 1938. 23. A Floyd County coal mine in 1938. 22. A group of coal miners waiting for their ride in Jenkins, 1935.
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The are better educated than the boys. Boys at work in a coal breaker. In the breakers of the anthracite coal industry there are nearly 18,000 persons employed as slate pickers. The majority of these are boys from the ages of 10 to 14 years. In an investigation conducted in an area where 4,131 persons wholly dependent on the mines lived
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The History of Wilkes-Barre, PA, anthracite coal center of the East. Capt'n Clint's Place History of Wilkes-Barre PA : Decline of Anthracite; Typical Coal Breaker: As the stock market crashed in 1929, the coal industry struggled, but it never recovered after World War II. By the 1920's consumers gradually switched from coal to oil, gas, and electricity. One by one, the
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03.03.2019Every few weeks, John Ord does something unusual for most people living in 2019 — he stops by a local hardware store in rural northeastern Pennsylvania to buy coal to heat his home. He recently
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15.08.2018This is the second in a series of posts about labor violence in the anthracite coal region by Robert Schmidt. " Dynamite Bombings in Northeast PA, 1871-1957 " was the first. During the 1877 strike, Pennsylvania Governor John Hartranft ordered militiamen to the anthracite region after suppressing the riot in Pittsburgh.
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11.08.2010In anthracite's heyday, huge coal breakers dotted the landscape and marked the numerous collieries in northeastern Pennsylvania. Described in 1906 as enormous preying monsters, breakers crushed and separated anthracite into different sizes, processing it for market. Then, nearly 175,000 anthracite workers supported a million people. Today
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This enormous resource contains thousands of detailed coal mine maps that can be overlaid on a variety of base maps for the entire state, including terrain, topographic and road maps, and aerial photographs. Each pink or yellow outline represents a single map, and many of the maps overlap each other. In addition to browsing the interactive map
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Other General Sources of Anthracite Railroad Information PA State Archives Holdings . RG-12 Department of Highways (Photographs in the series that show railroad details for roads in the anthracite region featuring crossings, towers, various buildings, etc., [ca.1910-1977].) RG-17 Records of the Land Office: Board of Canal Commissioners.
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A breaker boy was a coal-mining worker in the United States and United Kingdom whose job was to separate impurities from coal by hand in a coal breaker.Although breaker boys were primarily children, elderly coal miners who could no longer work in the mines because of age, disease, or accident were also sometimes employed as breaker boys. The use of breaker
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Souvenir Coal Breaker Paperweight Pennsylvania This is the coolest mining souvenir in the world. This piece of sculpted anthracite coal measures about 2.25 in width and 2.5 tall. As you can see above, the low relief image shows a coal breaker. Though highly detailed and
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In anthracite's heyday, huge coal breakers dotted the landscape and marked the numerous collieries in northeastern Pennsylvania. Described in 1906 as enormous preying monsters, breakers crushed and separated anthracite into different sizes, processing it for market. Then, nearly 175,000 anthracite workers supported a million people. Today, the above-ground strip
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Minersville PA 17954. For more information, please call 570-544-8300. Tickets sell out quickly, so don't delay. See more. Anthracite Miners and the Pennsylvania Coal Region. October 5, 2021 Jake Wynn - Public Historian. October 4, 2021. Located on the western edge of Wiconisco, the Lykens Valley Railroad's inclined plane carried railroad cars up and down from the coal
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10.04.2007I recently found a photo of breaker boys on a site called 100 Photographs that Changed the World by LIFE. My grandfather and G. Grandfather worked in the mines in PA and W.V. The 4th boy from the left, in the front row I believe is my grandfather. If you took my nephew, put him in those clothes, and smeared coal dust on his face, you would
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The Moffat Breaker, or Taylor Breaker, as it was called was built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company in 1915-16.The Moffat was the first all reinforced-concrete breaker, containing 500,000 feet of lumber for machinery bedding.In 1920, the W. Y. Moffat Coal Company acquired the Taylor Breaker.It was torn down around 1980.Taylor is a borough in
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As the need for coal ebbed, so did production time. Mechanical loading of anthracite began in the 1930's, eventually replacing the antiquated hand loading process. Strip mining also increased in the 1930's and reached 27 percent of total production. The work day at the strippings, deep mines and breakers dropped from 8 hours to 7, and the work week went from 6 days to 5 in
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Anthracite People:Families, Unions, and Work, 1900-40. By John Bodnar. (Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1983. 100p. Illustrations. Paper, $3.50.) Cornwall: The People and Culture of an Industrial Camelot 1880-1980. By Carl Oblinger. (Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1984. vi, 123p.
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17.01.2018Early 20th-century America remains notorious for widespread use of child labor. By 1910, some 2 million kids between the ages of 5 to 15 were employed in the United States — and we're not talking about paper routes. Children were exposed to massive amounts of heat in the glass-making industry, the whirling heavy machinery in textile mills
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14.09.2012By 1930, the average life expectancy had grown to 60 years, but people over 65 represented 5.5% of the total population or 6.6 million people. "Studies of the economic status of this group invariably show a substantial proportion is entirely dependent upon others for continued existence." In an era before Social Security, the Depression hit this group very hard. Many
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Anthracite, also known as hard coal, and black coal, is a hard, compact variety of coal that has a submetallic luster.It has the highest carbon content, the fewest impurities, and the highest energy density of all types of coal and is the highest ranking of coals.. Anthracite is the most metamorphosed type of coal (but still represents low-grade metamorphism), in which the
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The Bituminous coal mine maps of Pennsylvania were created by the Works Progress Administration from 1934-1938. Workers transcribed information about the extent of underground bituminous coal mines on to these maps, as well as locations of oil and gas wells. These maps are based on 15-minute topographic quadrangles, divided into nine sections.
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Miner, Miners, Miner's, Mining, Coal, Hardrock mining, coal mining, breaker boys, trammers, trammer . Old Photographs of Miners. Barnesville Mine, Fairmont, West Virginia 1904 . Coal Miners - Scranton, PA 1898. DL W Woodward Mines First Aid Team - Kingston, PA 1915. Maryland Coal Co.Tipple Boys and Drivers - Sand Lick, WV. Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal
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16.01.2011Next door neighbor (good friend) burns a Harman coal stove. 1) awesome heat, 2) long burn times - definitely 12 hours consistently, but he often can go nearly 20 hours if temps remain reasonable, 3) huge mess - between the dust and ash, his basement stove room is VERY dirty (but, he also doesn't give 2 sh!ts and if he did, it might be manageable, 4) coals here is
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Crouched over the chutes, the boys sit hour after hour, picking out the pieces of slate and other refuse from the coal as it rushes past to the washers. From the cramped position they have to assume, most of them become more or less deformed and bent-backed like old men. When a boy has been working for some time and begins to get round
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We were in anthracite coal country, and Freeland and the surrounding communities owed their existence to the local mines. Although Freeland wasn't a company town, its early success and substantial growth over its first 50 years largely owed to the mining concerns that surrounded it. Here's another little diversion that gets back on track by the end of the paragraph. My
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Anthracite coal miners near Hazelton prepare to go into the mine. The winter of 1902 was coming fast. The Anthracite Coal Strike in northeastern Pennsylvania had been going on for over four months with no signs of ending. President Theodore Roosevelt feared "untold miserywith the certainty of riots which might develop into social war.".
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Anthracite Mining Photo Gallery (present day) excellent photos of the present day coal region, including current mines and mining remnants. Mine Car. Breaker. Bleenies (yum!) Stauffer's Pool. Atlas Honor Roll (WWII memorial - 1942) Atlas Honor Roll
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Coal Mining. File name: 06_10_017149 Title: Coal mining in Anthracite Region, Pennsylvania Created/Published: The Mebane Greeting Card Co., Wilkes-Barre, PA. Date issued: 1930 - 1945 (approximate) Physical description: 1 print (postcard) : linen texture, color ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. Genre: Postcards Subjects: Industrial facilities Notes
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The Life of a Coal Miner. BY REV. JOHN McDOWELL. I'm twelve years old, goin' on thirteen, said the boy to the boss of the breaker. He didn't look more than ten, and he was only nine, but the law said he must be twelve to get a job. He was one of a multitude of the 16,000 youngsters of the mines, who, because miners' families are large and
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01.04.2010Originally, the actual anthracite coal was separated out from the slate, rock, dirt, etc. that came up from the mine by breaker boys. These very young boys would sit on long benches and pick out the chunks of coal that went by them on a conveyor belt. Of course, they missed a lot of coal. The discarded gob would be placed in a big pile called a culm bank.
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Beginning in the 19th Century, and continuing through the 20th Coal Miners unions became powerful in many countries, the miners becoming leaders of Left or Socialist movements (as in Britain, Poland, Japan, Canada, Chile and (in the 1930s) in the U.S.) Historians report that, From the 1880s through the end of the twentieth century, coal miners across the world became one
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