Photographs of Poor Miners
"A Young Apprentice and His Papa," "Some of Our Future Citizens," and "Economy in a Mining Town"
Photographs
By: Peter Roberts
Date: 1904
Source: Roberts, Peter. Originally published in Anthracite Coal Communities. New York: MacMillan Company, 1904. Available online at Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, http://home.earthlink.net/~scheppg/UnionHistory.html; website home page: http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/web.htm (accessed February 22, 2003).
About the Photographer: Peter Roberts (1859–1932) studied the anthracite coal community from the standpoint of both economics and social welfare. Considered an expert, he was often quoted and referred to in discussions of coal mining, particularly as related to the outcomes...
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