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A breaker boy was a coal-mining worker in the United States [1] and United Kingdom [2] whose job was to separate impurities from coal by hand in a coal breaker. Though boys were primarily children, elderly coal miners who could no longer work in the mines because of age, disease, or accident were sometimes employed as breaker boys. [3]
Postol, Todd A. "Creating the American Newspaper Boy: Middle-Class Route Service and Juvenile Salesmanship in the Great Depression." Journal of Social History (1997) 31#2: 327–345. online; Staller, Karen M. New York's Newsboys: Charles Loring Brace and the Founding of the Children's Aid Society (Oxford UP, 2020).
Incorporated December 17, 1862, in order to prevent its annexation by its larger neighbor, the town at one point was home to at least 8,000 residents. Prosperity was sustained for a period of 20 years between 1868 and 1888 by mining the Comstock Lode, a major deposit of gold and silver ore. Mines such as the Yellow Jacket, Crown Point, and ...
mining equipment; tailings pile [2] It was deemed notable as "the most complete depression-era mining camp remaining in western Montana. Located within the Cedar Creek Historic Mining District, the Gildersleeve mine is the heart of a family-run hard rock mining operation established and run by the Gildersleeve family of Superior, Montana.
Originally a mining town, many of the residents of Australia's Coober Pedy live in dugouts to escape the heat. During the town's summer months, temperatures can reach 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
Mining kids’ original thoughts as a source of entertainment has a long and adorable history, from Johnny Carson’s reading of school-age kids’ letters on the Tonight Show in the 1970s and ...
Poster by Albert M. Bender, produced by the Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago in 1935 for the CCC CCC boys leaving camp in Lassen National Forest for home. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. [1]
For instance, there was little money for toys, so kids played with box forts, homemade blocks, ... Related: 25 Simple Depression-Era Desserts That Actually Are Indulgent.