English: Lewis Hine photographed child laborers c. 1910 for the US government, and this is one of those photographs. The location is given twice in the government title below, both as Hughestown and as Pittston, Pennsylvania.

Hughestown is a smaller borough adjoining Pittston, so likely its meant that the location is in Hughestown in the Pittston area.

LOC metadata follows:

• Title: Group of Breaker Boys in #9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough, Pennsylvania Coal Co. Smallest boy is Angelo Ross (see photos and labels #1953 & #1954). Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.

• Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
• Date Created/Published: 1911 January.

Medium: 1 photographic print. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-nclc-01138 (color digital file from b&w original print) LC-USZ62-23755 (b&w film copy negative) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: LOT 7477, no. 1949 [P&P]

• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://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. 1949.

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

Subjects: Boys. Coal miners. United States--Pennsylvania--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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