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Breaker boys : how a photograph helped end child labor / written by Michael Burgan.

Author/creator Burgan, Michael
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoMankato, Minn. : Compass Point Books, ©2012.
Description64 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Subject(s)
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940--Juvenile literature.
Child labor--United States --History --Juvenile literature.
Coal mines and mining--Pennsylvania --History --Juvenile literature.
Child labor--United States --History --Pictorial works --Juvenile literature.
Documentary photography--United States --History --Juvenile literature.
Series Captured history
Captured history. ^A1092968
Contents Coal was king -- Coal and kids -- Changing the world -- Ending child labor -- Timeline -- Glossary -- Additional notes -- Source Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract Recounts photographer Lewis Hines' fight against child labor in the early 1900s and discusses how his work and the work of others revealed truths about the issue to the public.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011003316
ISBN9780756544393 (library binding)
ISBN0756544394 (library binding)
ISBN9780756545109 (pbk.)
ISBN0756545102 (pbk.)

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