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- Re: This was me
- This was me
- No Ordinary Quaker
- A Turkey's Most Challenging Flight
- I hope ...
- Farked!
- Hot shot
- There's no joy
- With apologies to Ernest Lawrence Thayer
- Mud season
- Four Peck Dam photo by Margaret Bourke-White
- WPA dambuilding project
- Same Car?
- Vintage
- Tire Ashtray
- Zero degrees
- Partial Safety?
- No accounting for taste
- Stocking shortage.
- Nikola Tesla
- Double Duty
- Norman Bates, Decorator
- Stockings WWII
- If you can find a better Bourbon ....
- It's not just the hills
- From bear to beadspread
- Safety schmafety
- Going up the stairs?
- That last step could be a lulu
- Falling Bruin
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Company Men: 1911
January 1911. Pittston, Pennsylvania. "Four Breaker Boys working in #9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough, Pennsylvania Coal Company. Boy on left is Tony Ross, 142 Panama Street. Other small boy is Mike Ross, cousin." Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Committee. View full size.
A Grim Life
Well done article on the life of a breaker boy.
Sunday's Finest Clothes
Four Shorpy wannabes. Hard coal breaker boys. Tough dirty job for anybody.
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