An undated side view of the Short Mountain Colliery Breaker from an old picture post card. This was the fourth and final breaker of the Lykens Valley Coal Company at this site in Bear Gap, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
The group of unidentified breaker boys posed for the picture. Among the group were young boys not permitted to work underground and men who had been injured in the mines and could only do breaker work.
In the upper right corner of the picture, colliery coal cars can be seen waiting to be dumped into the breaker, where debris was removed and the coal passed through a series of screens to be sized for market. Not shown in the photo is the bottom of the breaker where the sized coal was loaded into cars of the Pennsylvania Railroad for shipment to market.
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