In honor of Election Day, this 1872 illustration from Harper’s Weekly captures a scene in Pennsylvania’s Coal Region in the 19th century – mineworkers casting their ballots outside the entrance to their workplace.

The image shows mineworkers, still in their miners’ caps and lamps, pausing after their shift to vote with a colliery breaker in the background.

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Read more about Election Day in the Coal Region

Reports from Election Day in Wilkes-Barre, PA | Presidential Election of 1876 

An election night murder in Tremont, Pennsylvania | 1864

Wide Awake with poetry in support of Abraham Lincoln | Election of 1860

“Only Hoover is Big Enough” – A Lykens newspaper’s editorial on the eve of the 1932 election

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