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Creation Date
1916
Description
Black and white photograph in a book of a young boys sitting and picking out slate from coal while a few stand and watch from a wooden ramp. Created by Scott Nearing. Source: Debs Collection. Published by the John C. Winston Company. Contributor: Photographs and pictures by Charles F. Weller, Lewis W. Hines, George Frederick Watts, W. Balfour Ker and other artists. Language: English. Text: Caption: Child Laborers of the Coal Mines. These boys are employed as "slate pickers." as the coal comes down the slide they must pick out each piece of rock or slate and put it in a separate chute. It is constant hard work,- less agreeable than going to school, or fishing or playing baseball. (copr. , Underwood & Underwood, New York).
Keywords
Indiana State University, University Archives, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Education Exhibit