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 about 1910.
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Photo was published in the Republican and Herald (Pottsville, Pennsylvania) in the column “Coal Castles,” 23 August 1997. Contributed by Reading Anthracite Company Historical Library.
Obtained through Newspapers.com.
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