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Occupations Mining Collection

Background imageOccupations Mining Collection: Iron Miner

Iron Miner
5th June 1948: A miner pauses in a tunnel before starting a shift in Britains most modern iron ore mine, at Irthlinborough in Northamptonshire

Background imageOccupations Mining Collection: Coal Miners

Coal Miners
February 1871: Pitmen hewing coal in the Durham coalfields. Original Publication: The Graphic (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupations Mining Collection: Lead Picking

Lead Picking
circa 1909: Fluorspar lead picking, Derbyshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupations Mining Collection: Gold Mining

Gold Mining
18th January 1896: Black workers arrive for work in a South African gold mine. Original Publication: Illustrated London News - pub. 1896 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupations Mining Collection: Miners At Pit Head

Miners At Pit Head
circa 1832: Coal miners at work at the entrance of a mine. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupations Mining Collection: Policemen Prepare

Policemen Prepare
1st November 1910: A group of policemen, carrying their bedding, prepare for a long fight during the coal strike in Tony Pandy. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupations Mining Collection: Rescue Party

Rescue Party
1905: A rescue party waiting to descend the mine shaft in the worst Welsh mining disaster for 11 years at the Wattstown Colliery in the Rhondda Valley

Background imageOccupations Mining Collection: Workers In Mine

Workers In Mine
circa 1840: Miners at work underground. On the left, pitmen forming a bord, in the centre, a miner pulls a basketload of coal, pushed by a child, and on the right, miners forming a judd

Background imageOccupations Mining Collection: Sitting On Coal

Sitting On Coal
February 1912: Women mine workers sitting on a pile of coal during the coal strike in Wigan. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupations Mining Collection: Gold Mine

Gold Mine
circa 1888: African and European workers pan for gold at the Republic Gold Mining Company. (Photo by Robert Harris/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupations Mining Collection: Gold Mine

Gold Mine
circa 1888: Labourers at work at the Ferreira Gold Mining Company. (Photo by Robert Harris/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupations Mining Collection: Mine Workers

Mine Workers
circa 1888: Labourers at the diggings of the Grahamstown gold mining company. (Photo by Robert Harris/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupations Mining Collection: Mine On

Mine On
circa 1790: Two miners work in a mine by the light of an oil lamp. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupations Mining Collection: Welsh Quarry

Welsh Quarry
A black marble quarry near Red Wharf Bay in Anglesea. Original Artwork: Aquatint by William Daniell (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)


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