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A Pictorial Walk Through
the 20th Century

Little Miners


View of the Ewen Breaker of the
Pennsylvania Coal Company, January 10, 1911.

Little Miners
The dust was so dense at times that the view was obscured. This dust penetrated the utmost recesses of the boys lungs. A kind of slave driver sometimes stood over the boys, prodding or kicking them into obedience.

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