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| Joseph Puma, Pittston, Pennsylvania, 1911. Photo by Lewis Hine. |
At the close of the day. Waiting for the cage to go up. The cage is
entirely open on two sides and not very well protected on other two, and is usually crowded like this. Small boy in front
is Jo Pume, a Nipper, 163 Pine Street. Shaft #6, Pennsylvania Coal Co.,. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania, 1911.
Less than 18 hours after I saw this photo, I was talking to one of Joseph's
daughter's. The breakthrough was serendipitously finding the daughter's 1952 wedding announcement in newspaper archives.
When I told her I had a copy of a 1911 photo of her father, and that the original was in the Library of Congress,
she was stunned. It went off in the mail to her right away, and I will be interviewing her shortly. She told me that her father
had 12 children, and died in his late sixties.
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