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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:…

Photograph, April 2014, of the Saint Nicholas Breaker, Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania

Breaker boys at an unknown anthracite region breaker

North Ashland (PA) Colliery, breaker boys at work

Breaker boys at work at unknown colliery

Boys playing at an anthracite coal breaker

Boys picking slate from coal. Packer #5 breaker

Breaker boys at Eagle Hill Colliery near Pottsville, Pennsylvania

Eagle Hill Colliery breaker boys with breaker in background