LC-DIG-nclc-01104 Coal

Title: At the close of the day. Just up from the shaft. All work below ground in aPennsylvania Coal Mine. Smallest boy, next to right hand end is a nipper. On his right is Arthur, a driver, Jo on Arthur's right is a nipper. Frank, boy on left end of photo, is a nipper, works a mile underground from the shaft, which is 5000 Ft. down. Location: [South Pittston?], Pennsylvania.

Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer

Date Created/Published: [1910 December or 1911January]

Medium: 1 photographic print.

Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-nclc-01104 (color digital file from b&w original print) LC-USZ62-23743 (b&w film copy negative)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Call Number: LOT 7477, no. 1915 [P&P]

Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Notes:

Title from NCLC caption card.

Attribution to Hine based on provenance.

In album: Coal mines.

Hine no. 1915.

No city or date recorded on caption card. Possibly South Pittston based on previous cards. Date based on previous cards.

General information about the Lewis Hine child labor photos is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.nclc

Subjects:

Boys.

Coal miners.

Coal mining.

United States--Pennsylvania--South Pittston.

Format:

Photographic prints.

Collections:

National Child Labor Committee Collection

Part of: Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)

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Photo Credit: Library of Congress, LC-DIG-nclc-01104

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