Breaker

ronvanderende2009breaker

Ron van der Ende: Breaker 2009
bas-relief in salvaged wood, 165 x 152 x 18cm (private collection Rotterdam, NL)

ronvanderende2009breakerBACK

    The image on the back of the bas-relief: Breaker boys sort coal at an anthracite coal breaker near South Pittston, Pennsylvania, in 1911. Photograph by Lewis Hine for the National Child Labor Committee.
    background:
    Wikipedia: Breaker Boys
    Wikipedia: Coal Breaker
    J3net@Flickr: Anthracite Coal Mining Postcards

2009, large size, structures
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