Using the film set for "The Molly Maguires," Harvan explored the Molly legend and revealed the human cost of early industrialization in the anthracite region. He published many of these images in The Time of Mollies (Lansford, 1969). He coupled most of the photographs with lines from contemporary ballads and poems that he found in the Mauch Chunk Democrat, Mauch Chunk Coal Gazette, the Pottsville Chronicle, the Lansford Leader, and the United Mine Workers Journal. Harvan's pairings of text and image are reproduced in the exhibit that follows. You may want to resize your overlay window for this project to view images and accompanying text at the same time.

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