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8 year old coal miner, USA, early 1900’s.Children were cheap labor in the mines. He cleaned and played the part of a canary (kids were easier to replace than good miners). Probably Finnish or Swedish & indentured to the company for paying his father's debts to the company store. Coal Miners, Foto Tips, Ansel Adams, Nagasaki, Coal Mining, Interesting History, Hiroshima, White Photo, Vintage Pictures

This image is public domain This is a film scan from a copy negative that is part of my historical archive of Utah and Colorado mining images. The boy worked the mines. Children were cheap labor in the mines. He never worked that pick drill and the pipe wasn't likely his either but the rest of his stuff was real. He spent ten hours a day in that get up with only the light from that tallow wick lamp. He cleaned and played the part of a canary (kids were easier to replace than good miners). He…

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