The Dorrance Breaker Wilkes Barre PA 1983 Metal Print

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Back some thirty odd yrs. I did a series of architectural photographs of the dismantling of one of the few remaining Anthracite Coal breakers in Wyoming Valley....The Dorrance Colliery. There it sat, within a mile of our beautiful county courthouse, along the banks of the Susquehanna River....Wilkes Barre's enormous Dorrance Breaker. It was named after an important fellow by the name of Col. Charles Dorrance and it started operation in 1884. The Colliery had survived the Depression and both world wars, but did not survive the infamous Knox Mine disaster at Port Griffith, PA in 1959. In any event, these were the stomping grounds for me and my school buddies. It bothered me to see the end of this old friend so humbled and broken. I knew that the end was near also for the other few remaining breakers that dotted our local landscapes. Maybe I'm a little crazy after all these years, like the song says, but I missed the dirt, noise, smells and all the rest that goes along with coal mining a...

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