Miner Collection (page 6)

Come down under Australia emigration poster 1926-7
Poster encouraging British emigration to Australia, 1926-7. To the young unemployed miner, come down under and be a digger on the surface. Work, health and happiness on the land in Australia

The Burra Burra copper-mine in South Australia, showing the surface operations. 1848

Gold rush in New South Wales, Australia
Loading a horse with necessities for a months encampment at the gold digging site, Ophir, near Bathurst in New South Wales, Australia. Date: 1851

Title page with vignette of miner with lantern in a cave.. Chromolithograph from Dr. Adolph Kenngotts Mineralogy section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schuberts Natural History, Schreiber, Munich, 1886

German male costumes of 1526-1546.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889

Face workers in a tin mine, Cornwall, with the seam of tin visible on the right. Date: circa 1980s

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

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

Goldminers in Chitina Valley, Alaska, USA. They are relaxing in their camp at Hells Half Acre, near the Kennecott Mines, Wrangell area. Date: circa 1920

Goldminers in Alaska, USA
Goldminers in their camp, Alaska, USA. Date: circa 1908

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

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

Handing in his lamp
1920 photo showing a Staffordshire miner handing in his lamp before the October 16 coal strike. About one million miners went on strike in aid of wage increases. Date: 1920

Panning for Gold
An old miner (probably in New Zealand), washing the gold he has panned. Date: 1930s

Miner & Family 1905
A miner and his family stand on the doorstep of their dwelling. The mother proudly holds up her baby for the camera. Probably taken in Radstock, Avon. Date: 1905

Chinese Mining Boy, South Africa
A Chinese Mining Boy, South Africa. Between 1904 and 1910, over 63, 000 contracted miners were brought in to work the mines of the Witwatersrand

Chinese Mining Boys - South Africa
Three Chinese Mining Boys. Between 1904 and 1910, over 63, 000 contracted miners were brought in to work the mines of the Witwatersrand

John William Mackay (1831-1902) - an American industrialist, one of the four Bonanza Kings, a partnership which capitalised on the wealth generated by the silver mines at the Comstock Lode

Marsilea quadrifolia - Four-leaf Clover
Marsilea quadrifolia (four-leaf clover). Manuscript document: Sketches of plants made at the Mauritius to accompany the report of May 1829 Date: 1829

Medals of Valour for Heroes of Pit Disasters
Postcard celebrating (with a poem) the medals of Valour awarded by King Edward VII to the Heroes of the Pit Disasters at Whitehaven

Fossil leaf miner
A leaf miner has left a snaking trail in this leaf from the Middle Eocene of Bournemouth, England

Manorina melanophrys, bell miner
Plate 80, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds The Birds of Australia, Vol.4, (1840-1848)

Carved nephrite
A tiki from New Zealand (left), a seal from British Colombia, and a Chinese vase all carved from nephrite. Nephrite is actually not a mineral outright, but is a variety of the mineral actinolite

France (1903). Coal mine. Engraving

CONGO, Democratic Republic of the. Democratic Republic of the Congo (2008). Bills with mining scene

Loading Chile saltpeter in Pascua (Chile). 1891

The foreman and miners pose for a photograph. King Cobalt silver mine, Cobalt, Ontario Canada

Coal miner (Polish). Capels, West Virginia. Date 1938 Sept

Why open the door, coal miners child uses the cat hole. Bertha Hill, West Virginia (Note pipe in one hand, gun in other). Date 1938 Sept. Why open the door, coal miners child uses the cat hole

Miner at American Radiator Mine, Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Date 1936 Feb

Hungarian miners wife bringing home coal for the stove from slate pile. Coal camp, Chaplin, West Virginia. Date 1938 Sept

Wife of unemployed coal miner, suffering from TB, living in old company store. Abandoned mining town of Marine, West Virginia. (See 50110-D)J. Date 1938 Sept

Gold Mining in California. Date: 1871

Silver Mine
The silver mine at Kongsberg, Norway, 1872. Date: 1872

French poster, nationalisation of mines
A French poster about the nationalisation of mines. Date: 20th century

Miners - Ironwood, Michigan - Lowered into pit. Date: circa 1910s

Sappers and miners working on a tunnel, WW1
Sappers and miners working on a tunnel during the First World War. Date: 1916

Illustration, The Queen of the Pirate Isle, showing Polly being is held aloft by a dark-faced miner called Brother Step-and-Fetch-It

Simplon - Switzerland - The Miner
A Miner from the Simplon region of Switzerland. It looks as if he is about to lead a guided tour of a tunnel system cut through glacial ice. Date: circa 1905

Miners Safety Lamp
An example of a miners safety lamp

Welsh Miner Washing 1870
A Welsh miner washing off the grime after his days work. Date: circa 1870

Work Conditions
Management and labour negotiate during the South Wales lock-out Date: 1875

Bank Hall Colliery, Mining
Bank Hall Colliery, Burnley, Lancashire, England. Study of an Italian migrant worker, fresh from the pit face

Derelict miners cottage, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A derelict miners cottage in Pembrokeshire, South Wales. The roof has gone, and plants are growing in the stonework

Miners outing in a charabanc, South Wales
A group of South Wales miners, a few guests and a little white dog, go on an outing in a Leyland charabanc

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