Miner Collection (page 4)

Laelia dayana or Cattleya bicalhoi orchid. Chromolithograph by Hatch Company after a botanical illustration by Harriet Stewart Miner from Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants, Lee Shepard, Boston

Devons dendrobium orchid, Dendrobium devonianum. Chromolithograph by Hatch Company after an illustration by Harriet Stewart Miner from Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants, Boston, 1885

South Island kokako (extinct) and bell miner
South Island kokako, Callaeas cinereus (extinct) and bell miner, Manorina melanophrys. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lessons Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1838

Interior of a coal mine, Newcastle upon Tyne. circa 1850

Jimmy Brown appointed Lord High Commissioner of Scotland
Jimmy Brown, Labour MP and ex-miner, appointed Lord High Commissioner of Scotland at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, May 1930. 1930

Work at a coal mine 1878
Work at a coal mine, low travelling and holding the bottom coal. Date: 1878

Miners at work 1865
Various positions assumed by the Hewers in digging at the coal. Date: 1865

Miners at Schemnitz, Slovakia
Miners at Schemnitz (Banska Stiavnica), Slovakia. 1832

Mass meeting in Cobalt, Ontario, Canada
Mass meeting in Cobalt, a silver mining town in Ontario, Canada. circa 1908

Alum Mine at Hurlet near Glasgow 1843
Interior of an underground alum mine at Hurlet near Glasgow. The miners, with candles attached to their helmets, dig into the rocks and cart away the mineral in wheelbarrows

Alfred Gee, one-man coal mine, Cheshire - 5
Alfred Gee pushes a coal truck to the entrance of his one-man coal drift mine in Cheshire, England. Mr Gee did not wear a miners helmet, and used a carbide (acetylene) lamp in the mine Date: 1971

Alfred Gee, one-man coal mine, Cheshire - 4
Alfred Gee working his one-man coal drift mine in Cheshire, England. Mr Gee did not wear a miners helmet, and used a carbide (acetylene) lamp in the mine Date: 1971

Alfred Gee, one-man coal mine, Cheshire - 3
Alfred Gee working his one-man coal drift mine in Cheshire, England. Mr Gee did not wear a miners helmet, and used a carbide (acetylene) lamp in the mine Date: 1971

Sculpture Bust in the Carlsberg Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sculpture Bust - Miner with an Axe (1900) by Constantin Meunir (1831-1905) in the Carlsberg Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark Date: 1900

Alice Rollins-Crane, American ethnologist, author, business owner, and miner well known for her work with the Apache Native Americans and her time in Alaska and the Yukon

Coal mining. Belgium
Coal mining. Herscheuse Mining. Quaregnon County. Belgium. Colored engraving from 1884

MET DE BLES, Henri. Copper mines
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

Miner of the Huanchaca Mining Company of Bolivia. Date: circa 1904

Coal Mining 1906
Hewers working at coal face on a thin seam, Frog Lane Pit, Coalpit Heath, near Bristol, 1906 Date: 1906

Senghenydd Colliery canary, Glamorgan, South Wales
Two miners at the Universal Pit, Senghenydd Colliery, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, South Wales, with a caged canary which was used to test the air for gas, or lack of oxygen

Miner washing at a tin bath, South Wales
A South Wales miner washes at a tin bath in front of the fire, while his wife sits mending socks

Young collier, Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A young collier, about 14 years old, at a colliery in the Saundersfoot area of Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales. The mines employed children as young as ten

Men with dram, Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, South Wales
Two men hauling a dram (truck) full of coal from a cage at the pithead of the Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, Rhymney Valley, South Wales

Coal miner starting to make a hole Victorian period

China - Using high-pressure water jet in mining operation. Date: circa 1930s

Mining. Drilling with a jackhammer. Diorama. Deutsches Muse
History. Mining. Drilling with a jackhammer. Diorama. Deutsches Museum (Museum of Science and Technology). Munich. Germany

Section of an underground mine. Model of a team in the second half of the nineteenth century. Scale 1:25. Manufactured in 1906. By R. Brown. Deutsches Museum (Museum of Science and Technology)

France. Women working inside of a coal mine. Drawing color
France. Women working inside of a coal mine. The moulineuses.Drawing color. 19th century

Miners Strike, Wales
South Wales miners families pawning their possessions during lock-out, at Merthyr Tydfil. Date: 1875

Miners hut, Lithgow Valley, New South Wales, Australia
A Miners hut in Lithgow Valley, New South Wales, Australia. Date: circa 1890s

Coal strike of 1912
National coal strike of 1912. Workers went on strike from February to early April, to secure a minimum wage. 1912

Prince of Wales meeting coal miners
Edward, Prince of Wales (1894-1972), later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor, shaking hands with a coal miner at Middlestone Moor in County Durham, during his tour of the coalfields in 1929

South Wales miner washing
A South Wales miner, face and forearms black with coal-dust, washes at home in a large tin bath. His wife helps wash his back. Date: circa 1936

Surface worker, South Wales colliery
A middle aged surface worker at a colliery in South Wales

Gypsy encampment near Pontypool, South Wales
Two traditional style caravans at a gypsy encampment near Pontypool, South Wales

Women chatting in a back yard, Pontypool, South Wales
A group of women, probably all wives of coal miners, chatting in the back yard of 76 Hanbury Terrace, Pontypool, South Wales. The smiling woman in the spotted skirt is the mother of W E Jones

William Brace, Welsh Labour MP
William Brace (1865-1947), Welsh Labour MP, President of the South Wales Miners Federation from 1912 until 1915. He was an early advocate of a single union for all of Britains coal miners

Gypsy boys making pegs, near Pontypool, South Wales
Two small gypsy boys making pegs, near Pontypool, South Wales

Two middle aged miners with their lamps, South Wales
Two middle aged miners with their lamps, at a colliery in South Wales

Repairing pit props, Plas y Coed Level, South Wales
A miner repairing pit props in the Plas y Coed Level, South Wales

Woman using a dolly tub in a back yard, South Wales
A woman using a dolly tub to do the weekly wash, in a back yard in South Wales, with two children on the left. W E Jones recalled

Aerial view of Tirpentwys Colliery, Pontypool, South Wales
An aerial view of Tirpentwys Colliery near Pontypool in South Wales

Aerial view of Tirpentwys Colliery, Pontypool, South Wales
An aerial view of Tirpentwys Colliery near Pontypool in South Wales

Mining Coal
French miners mining coal in a coal mine

Anaesthesia - Diebel
At Vienna, miner Paul Diebel demonstrates to the Austrian Society for Psychical Research the fakirism whereby he feels no pain even when knives and daggers are thrown at him

Bungalows, Tarquah Mines, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa
Bungalows for fitters and miners, Tarquah (Tarkwa) Mines, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa. Date: circa 1910

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa - Crown Gold Mines
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa - Crown Mines - Gold Mining - miner operating a pneumatic drill. Date: circa 1930s

Village Main Reef Gold Mine, South Africa - Engine Chamber (9th level) - depth 1275 feet. Date: circa 1911

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