Recreation Hour


A group of boys play ball during their noon break, dwarfed by the coal breaker behind them at the Kingston Coal Company near Wilkes-Barre. Boys as young as eight years old worked in the breakers and in the mines, and became known as
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A group of boys play ball during their noon break, dwarfed by the coal breaker behind them at the Kingston Coal Company near Wilkes-Barre. Boys as young as eight years old worked in the breakers and in the mines, and became known as "breaker boys".