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- English: A breaker boy was a coal-mining worker in the United States and United Kingdom whose job was to separate impurities from coal by hand in a coal breaker. Although breaker boys were primarily children, elderly coal miners who could no longer work in the mines because of age, disease, or accident were also sometimes employed as breaker boys. The use of breaker boys began in the mid-1860s. Although public disapproval of the employment of children as breaker boys existed by the mid-1880s, the practice did not end until the 1920s.
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Media in category "Breaker boys"
The following 38 files are in this category, out of 38 total.
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Boys picking slate from coal. packer -5 breaker.jpg 1,278 × 1,014; 523 KB
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Boys playing at a breaker.jpg 459 × 666; 97 KB
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Breaker Boys 1.jpg 2,280 × 1,592; 476 KB
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Breaker Boys 1.png 593 × 423; 144 KB
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Breaker Boys in Coal Mine South Pittston Pennsylvania by Lewis Hine.jpeg 700 × 558; 225 KB
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Breaker boys working in Ewen Breaker. S. Pittston, Pa. - NARA - 523379.jpg 3,000 × 2,154; 1.48 MB
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Breaker boys working in Ewen Breaker. S. Pittston, Pa. - NARA - 523380.jpg 3,000 × 2,126; 1.53 MB
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Breaker boys working in Ewen Breaker. S. Pittston, Pa. - NARA - 523381.jpg 3,000 × 2,141; 1.46 MB
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Breaker boys, Eagle Hill colliery, eastern PA 1.jpg 379 × 306; 81 KB
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Breaker boys, Eagle Hill colliery, eastern PA.jpg 465 × 396; 61 KB
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Breaker Boys, Kingston, PA 4a16385a original.jpg 7,497 × 9,209; 20.88 MB
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Breaker boys, North Ashland colliery.jpg 461 × 360; 56 KB
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Breaker boys, Woodward Coal Mines, Kingston, Pa., ca. 1900.jpg 804 × 1,024; 163 KB
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Breaker boys.jpg 425 × 540; 45 KB
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Child Labor in United States, coal mines Pennsylvania.jpg 1,280 × 776; 268 KB
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Childlabourcoal.jpg 567 × 401; 81 KB
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Eagle Hill colliery breaker boys (slate pickers).jpg 688 × 469; 102 KB
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Four breaker boys in -9 breaker.jpg 695 × 762; 113 KB
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Charles Green06.jpg 706 × 532; 59 KB
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Group of boys in -9 breaker.jpg 644 × 748; 104 KB
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Group of boys working in -9 breaker.jpg 698 × 769; 114 KB
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Group of breaker boys in -9 breaker.jpg 690 × 800; 105 KB
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Group of breaker boys. Smallest is Sam Belloma. Pittston, Pa. - NARA - 523383.jpg 3,000 × 2,141; 1.28 MB
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Group of Breaker boys. Smallest is Sam Belloma.jpg 4,806 × 3,276; 8.81 MB
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Group of breaker boys. Smallest is Sam Beloma.jpg 693 × 729; 96 KB
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Hughestown PA Breaker Boys 1911.jpg 1,024 × 719; 124 KB
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Miners among coal boxes, S. Wilkes-Barre, PA. LCCN2014683201.jpg 5,792 × 4,279; 2.69 MB
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North Ashland colliery. Breaker boys at work.jpg 854 × 673; 137 KB
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Pennsylvania breaker boys 1911.jpg 959 × 678; 425 KB
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Pennsylvania coal breakers, (Breaker Boys), 1912.jpg 976 × 689; 137 KB
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The breaker boys at work.jpg 349 × 243; 33 KB
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Schlafhaus VonderHeydt Speisesaal SZ.jpg 960 × 720; 144 KB
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Von der Heydt Esssaal Schlafhaus I.jpg 750 × 480; 98 KB
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