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A few of the young breaker boys working in the Bliss breaker of the Delaware, Lehigh & Western near Nanticoke, Pa. Location: Nanticoke vicinity, Pennsylvania.

Breaker boys working in Kohinor mine, Shenandoah City, Pennsylvania

Breaker boys in #9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough, Pa. Coal Co. Smallest boy is Angelo Ross, Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania

Group of Breaker Boys in #9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough, Pennsylvania Coal Co. Smallest boy is Angelo Ross. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania

These are all breaker-boys. (See photos taken at Ewen Breaker, later.) They were very suspicious of my motives. Sam Bellom (boy on left end of photo), 58 Pine Street. Been working in breaker #9 for two years, he says. He says, also, that he is 14…

Breaker boys at work at unknown colliery

Breaker boys at Eagle Hill Colliery near Pottsville, Pennsylvania

Breaker boys at an unknown anthracite region breaker

Tom Vitol (also called Dominick Dekatis) 76 Parsonage Street, Hughestown Borough. Works in Breaker #9. Probably under 14. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.

Angelo Ross, 142 Panama Street, Hughestown Borough. A youngster who has been working in Breaker #9 Pennsylvania Company for four months, said he was 13 years old, but very doubtful. He has a brother Tony probably under 14, working. Location:…