• Lewis Wickes Hine (photographer)

View of coal breaker at Chauncy Colliery, Chauncy, Pennsylvania, United States

January 1911

Photograph taken while Lewis Wickes Hine was working for the National Child Labor Committee.
Caption on NCLC caption card: "Breaker of the Chauncy (Pa.) Colliery, where a 15 year old breaker-boy was smothered to death and another badly burned, Jan. 7, 1911. (Photo of newspaper clipping #1946.) The coroner told me that the McKee boy was but a few days past his 15th birthday when he was killed, and that the evidence seemed to show that he was at work in another breaker before his 14th birthday. (He will report to us on that point, further)".

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 11.8 x 16.8 cm mat: 20.3 x 25.4 cm sheet: 11.8 x 16.8 cm

PH1980:1163

numbered - N.1932 (in pencil, in unknown hand, on print, verso, center right); 1932 (in pencil in unknown hand, on print, verso, lower right); 1932 (in ink, in unknown hand, on print, verso, lower right); 1932 (in ink, in unknown hand, on print,verso, upper left) stamped - N (in blue ink, stamped,on print,verso,center); In ordering use this number / N. / HINE PHOTO COMPANY /21 Grant Ave. Lincoln Park /Yonkers, N.Y. (in purple and black ink, on print, verso, centre left); Set No. (in black ink, on print, verso, centre left); -40- (in ink, on print,verso, upper right)

Chauncey; Pennsylvania; United States;