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Physical description:
8 x 10;
Type:
Glass negatives
Place:
Pennsylvania
Schuylkill County (Pa.)
Shenandoah (Pa.)
Date:
1884
Notes:
Description from "Bulletin of the United States National Museum, No. 42: A Preliminary Descriptive Catalogue of the Systematic Collections in Economic Geology and Metallurgy in the United States National Museum," page 226.
Collected for curator of metallurgy and economic geology Frederic P. Dewey by assistant James Templeman Brown as part of Dewey's "Plan to illustrate the mineral resources of the United States, and their utilization, at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial of 1884-85, at New Orleans."
Summary:
Boys and disabled men at the Ellangowan colliery, Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, engaged in picking slate and bony coal from the broken material as it descends the chutes from the breaker to the pocket.
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