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Archive for October 2020

Preservation and Perseverance in the Patches: A Woman’s Role in Coal County

By Mark Riccetti | October 6, 2020

Lewis Hine. Noon hour in the Ewen Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Co. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania, 1911. Images of miners covered in black coal dust and Lewis Hine’s iconic photographs of…

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