Pennsylvania Historic photos, documents, and people

A view of the Pennsylvania Breaker. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view. This dust penetrates the utmost recess of the boy's lungs. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania.

Four Breaker Boys working in #9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough. Boy on left is Tony Ross, 142 Panama Street, other small boy is Mike Rosa i.e., Ross?, cousin. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A tailor fitting a coat at the shop maintained in the Greyhound garage. Drivers pay a dollar a month and can have clothes altered, fitted, and pressed at any time

Three years in the Glass House and no chance for promotion yet. Boy in foreground been "carry-in" since he was 14 years old. Wormser's Glass House. Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Girls working at the Animal Trap Company treating themselves to a special lunch to celebrate the departure of one of them to work in a Lancaster department store

A girl passenger sitting in a baggage compartment while she is waiting for the driver to finish unloading the bags from a Greyhound bus that broke down at a small town in Pennslyvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Swedish-American vice president of the SKF roller bearing factory with his family. His wife is the daughter of the Swedish minister to the United Nations

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The regional safety instructor for the Greyhound bus company showing a group of new drivers one of the machines in the machine shop at the Greyhound garage

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A mechanic metalizing a part in the machine shop at the Greyhound garage. This is one of the new salvage operations for worn parts undertaken since the war

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