MSHA : A Pictorial Walk Through the 20th Century

A Pictorial Walk Through
the 20^th Century

Little Miners

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

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.