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Noon hour in the Ewen Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Co. South Pittston, Pennsylvania.

January 1911.

Lewis Hine's photographs, such as this one, were instrumental in changing child labor laws in the United States.
National Child Labor Committee collection.
Frank P, whose legs were cut off by a motor car in a coal mine in West Virginia when he was 14 years old. Monongah, West Virginia.

Hine was frequently threatened with violence or even death by factory police and foremen.
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