Springfield_mine.jpg

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English: Man gathering good coal from the slag heaps at Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania. 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.

Date

1937

Source

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID fsa.8a17114 .
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing .

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Alternative names	pseudonym : Shahn, Benjamin; Benjamin Shahn; Benjamin Shan
Description	American photographer, poster artist and artist
Date of birth/death	September 12, 1898	March 14, 1969
Location of birth/death	Kaunas, Russian Empire	New York City
Work period	1935-1969
Work location	United States of America ; New York City
Authority file	: Q695239 VIAF : 17268935 ISNI : 0000000108747289 ULAN : 500005524 LCCN : n79085084 NAID : 10580398 WorldCat

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This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government , the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright .

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1937