Mine Collection (page 17)

South Africa - Premier Diamond Mine
Premier Diamond Mine, near Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. Date: 1927

South Africa - A Rand Gold Mine
A Rand Gold Mine, South Africa. Showing rock drilling Date: 1927

Laying mines, Italian navy, World War One
An Italian navy mine-laying ship, laying mines at sea in 1917 during the First World War. Date: 1917

Listening for counter-mining in the First World War
A French officer of engineers in a mine-gallery, listening for German counter-mining with special drums and microphones. A very delicate operation. Date: 1917

Embroidered Signatures Tabor House
Guests at the Tabor House signed a table cloth which was then embroidered during winter evenings

Miners at work, Victor, Colorado, USA
Miners at work, drilling one thousand feet underground in a gold mine at Victor, Colorado, USA. Date: circa 1910

Molly Kathleen Mine, Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA
Scene inside the Molly Kathleen Mine, Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA. A miner stands next to a cart containing gold ore ready to be taken to the surface. Date: circa 1910

Things that Irritate, by Bairnsfather
Things that Irritate Private Wm. Jones is not half so amused at accidentally falling down the mine crater as he is at hearing two friends murmuring the first verse of " Don t go down the mine

Georgetown Colorado Carpenters Gothic
The Maxwell House a fine Carpenters Gothic timber framed house in Georgetown, Colorado, centre of the Pikes Peak Gold Rush. Built in 1870 for Thomas Maxwell a mining engineer

Calico Ghost Town Schoolhouse
Founded in 1881 when silver was found in the calico coloured mountains of the Mojave Desert

A Proposal in Flanders by Bairnsfather
Humours from the Front - No 31 A Proposal in Flanders The point of Jeans pitchfork awakens a sense of duty in a mine that shirked A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander

St. Barbara Church. CZECH Rep Kutna Hora. Vault
St. Barbara Church. CZECH Rep.. Kutna Hora. Vault that covers the central nave. Gothic art. Architecture

MET DE BLES, Henri (1480-1550). Landscape with coppper mines. Detail of the foundry. 16th century. Renaissance art. Oil on wood. CZECH Rep.. Prague. National Gallery in Prague

Gold Mining in California. Scenes of the 1849 Californian Gold Rush showing cradling, panning, washing with a long tom and hydraulic mining. Coloured lithograph by Currier and Ives 1871. Litography

South Africa - De Beers diamond mine
Black and white image of a De Beers diamond mine, South Africa.. Part of Box 287, South Africa Diamond Mines, Boswell Collection. Slide number 30. Date: circa 1890s

Sydney, Australia - Silver Mine - Broken Hill
Slide showing a photograph of a Silver mine. Broken Hill is Australias longest-lived mining city. In 1844, the explorer Charles Sturt saw and named the Barrier Range

South Africa - De Beers Diamond Mines, Kimberley
Black and white image of diamond mine operated by De Beers at Kimberley, present-day South Africa.. Part of Box 287, South Africa Diamond Mines, Boswell Collection. Slide number 40.250

Central America - Gold Mining - Lantern Slide series
Gold Mining in Central America - A coloured lantern slide of two small white buildings in a hilly landscape, with trees and various foliage in the foreground.. Slide from Box 270B. Date: circa 1900

HMS London, British battleship
HMS London, ex-battleship, after conversion to a mine-layer (in camouflage paint) after removal of main armament - May 1918. Date: circa 1918

Group photo, Mayo, Yukon Territory, Canada
Group photo outside the Hotel Royal Alexandra (proprietor Oscar Letourneau), Mayo, Yukon Territory, Canada, 11 October 1919. According to the inscription, those pictured are about to leave

Hotel Bricolla and Mont Mine Glacier, Valais, Switzerland

Miners at mine entrance, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Miners at mine entrance, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: early 20th century

Suffragette Valentine Card Handcuffs. Depicts a large pair of handcuffs and captioned I ll give you time to think it over! The, Fairest suffragette

Suffragette Husband Minds Babies. Husband minds the babies while wife sleeps in bed. Pro-suffrage notices on the wall. Regretfully, he thinks

Tabor House Leadville Colorado
The home of Horace Tabor, who made and lost a vast fortune in mining silver at the Matchless Mine. The kitchen and fittings came by mail order from as far as New York and San Francisco

A fashionable young girl. To a friend of mine. Girl in pale blue coat and matching feathered hat. Date: circa 1906

Blitz in London -- Greycoat Hospital, Westminster, WW2
Blitz in London -- damage to a wall caused by a land mine falling on Greycoat Hospital, Westminster, London, on 15 October 1940. Date: 1940

Blitz in London -- bomb disposal at Charing Cross
Blitz in London -- soldiers using a trolley to remove a land mine on Hungerford Railway Bridge, Charing Cross, on 17 April 1941. Date: 1941

Unexploded land mine, Greycoat Hospital, London, WW2
An unexploded land mine which has fallen into Greycoat Hospital, Westminster, London, on 15 October 1940. Date: 1940

2nd Cpl D McArthur reconnoitering craters - Givenchy Ridge
2nd Corporal D. McArthur (176th Company, Royal Engineers) and his Officer returning from reconnoitering mine craters around the Givenchy Ridge - October 13th 1915

Trench Art model of a British mine layer, WW1
Trench Art model of a British mine layer on a brass base celebrating the Royal Navys capture of a German submarine

WW2 poster, Thank You Gold Coast! Your Manganese makes steel for fighting ships. Date: 1940s

Dynamite explosion, South Africa mine

Black mine workers, South Africa

A Pick Nick Down Under by William Heath Robinson
A sharp thrill in the Antipodes: one of the dangers of very deep mining. A man tunnelling through te earth with a treacherous looking pick axe surprises an Australian having managed to dig entirely

Kulture - Mine-Testing at Cuxhaven, WW1 Heath Robinson
A cartoon by Heath Robinson, in which mines are tested for power by pushing someone onto them. For the test subjects sake, we can only hope that ones a dud. Date: 1914

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