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Description: In the Great Depression coal pickers like this one working on a rock dump in Nanty Glo could earn as much as a dollar a day for the usable coal they could salvage from the mountain of second-rate rejected 'rock.' The 1937 photo is from the Library of Congress collection.
Title: Springfield mine
Credit: Federal works project in 1937, Nanty Glo collection in the Library of Congress
Author: Ben Shahn (1898-1969) uploaded by Jon Kennedy
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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