MULE DRIVERS in COAL MINE 1908 Poster
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A group of young boys work as Mule Drivers in a Gary, West Virginia coal mine in 1908. Notice the old-style open flame lanterns on their hats. The work in the mines in those days was highly dangerous and brutal on the lungs. Photograph attributed to Lewis Hine.
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