The All-Too-Youthful Proletarians: Breaker Boys of the Anthracite Coal Region in the Early 1900s
Posted by Perry Blatz on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off on The All-Too-Youthful Proletarians: Breaker Boys of the Anthracite Coal Region in the Early 1900s Many Pennsylvanians have long forgotten one of the state’s major claims to national prominence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-the anthracite coal industry. In those years, clean-burning anthracite heated more homes in the northeastern United States than any other fuel, and a 1,700 square-mile area in northeast Pennsylvania produced almost all of the nation’s...read more