A photograph taken in June 1956 of the dynamiting of the Westwood Colliery Breaker, near Good Spring, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The photo caption reads: This scene in June 1956 symbolized […]
A photograph from around the 1890s of a wooden, mule-drawn dump cart near a coal breaker. _______________________________ Photo was published in the Republican and Herald (Pottsville, Pennsylvania) in the column […]
EDWARD BEADLE Edward D. Beadle, age 84 years, died at his home on Lykens last Wednesday. Mr. Beadle was a son of the late Robert Beadle and Rachel [Davis] Beadle. […]
A photograph from about 1900, showing a farrier shoeing a mule at a coal mine. _______________________________ Photo was published in the Republican and Herald (Pottsville, Pennsylvania) in the column “Coal […]
An interior view of a wooden coal breaker from the 1890s. According to the article that appeared with this photo, wooden coal breakers had been replaced with steel-framed ones by […]
An 1885 view of an unidentified, wooden coal breaker. _______________________________ Photo was published in the Republican and Herald (Pottsville, Pennsylvania) in the column “Coal Castles,” 27 September 1997. Contributed by […]
A photograph from the 1890s showing the transport of an injured mine worker via mule. Although the caption for this photograph indicates the worker is being transported to a hospital, […]
An undated photo identified only as showing breaker boys of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. _______________________________ Photo was published in the Republican and Herald (Pottsville, Pennsylvania) in the column “Schuylkill Memories,” 31 […]