Breaker Boys at Work, 1910
A photograph taken about 1910 of breaker boys at work at a colliery breaker. Note the overseer standing with what appears to by a stick in hand. The colliery is […]
Picking Coal at the Dump Banks
An undated photograph of women picking coal at the dump banks. Location unknown – but typical of what occurred on what was the waste area of each mining operation The […]
Breaker Boys Line Up for Pay at Colliery
A photograph taken late in the 19th century of breaker boys at a colliery lined up for their pay. Although this photo was said to have been taken at the […]
Top Man at the Mines
An undated photograph of the top man at a mine shaft, probably in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The job of the top man was to make sure that the coal cars […]
The Lamphouse at the Mines
A photograph from the early 1940s of lampman Pat O’Boyle tending to the miner’s lamps at the colliery lamphouse where he worked. At the beginning of the workday, all miners […]
The Anthracite Miners’ Certificate
On 9 May 1889, Pennsylvania passed a law requiring miners to obtain “mining papers.” Collieries were required to hire only men with these papers which were officially referred to a […]
Timbermen In the Mines
An undated photograph, probably taken around the time of World War II, of timbermen at work in an underground mine. According to the information accompanying this photo, it was the […]
Rausch Creek – Markson Colliery
A map of the Markson Colliery at Good Spring near Valley View, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The abandoned Markson Colliery workings are located within the Donaldson Syncline of the. Southern Anthracite […]