this site struck a chord with me some time back:

  http://www.shorpy.com/

see http://www.shorpy.com/shorpy: 'shorpy at work in 1910'

  http://www.shorpy.com/files/images/01094u.jpg

maybe 12 years old at the time? he later died in a mine accident at the age
of 31, crushed by a rock. for most of his life, clearly, he knew nothing
other than that mine.

I expect the mine owner lived in a nice mansion somewhere.

-- Chris

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