Mining Collection

Newcomen steam engine, 1747. Thomas Newcomen (1663-1729) designed his atmospheric or steam engine in 1712. Water was heated in the boiler and the resulting steam was let into the cylinder

Markham Main Colliery, Armthorpe, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, 1961. A general view of the colliery taken during refurbishment work in 1961

Frickley Colliery, South Elmsall, West Yorkshire, 1965. Artist: Michael Walters
Frickley Colliery, South Elmsall, West Yorkshire, 1965. With its shaft sunk in 1905, Frickley Colliery in the village of South Elmsall, West Yorkshire

Balloting for the coal strike, Wheatsheaf Colliery, Pendlebury, January 1912, (c1920). Artist: Topical Press Agency
Balloting for the coal strike, Wheatsheaf Colliery, Pendlebury, near Manchester, January 1912, (c1920). Illustration from Story of the British Nation, Volume IV, by Walter Hutchinson, (London, c1920s)

A. J. Cook led the Miners and the miners led the strike, c1926, (1938). Arthur James Cook (1883-1931), known as A. J. Cook, was a British trade union leader who was General Secretary of the Miners

Levant Mine, Cornwall. The Levant Mine operated from the late 18th century until its closure in 1930, mining tin and copper from beneath the sea bed

Collieries, c1805. Pithead scene at a coal mine. At the bottom a horse whim is raising coal from the pit and a man is breaking coal with a pick

Underground scene in a coal mine in the Newcastle-upon-Tyne area of England, 1823. Miners hewing coal and carrying away in corves (baskets). From Scenes of British Wealth by the Rev Isaac Taylor

Sunderland - Looking Up the River from the Bridge, 1895. From Round the Coast. [George Newnes Limited, London, 1895]

Queen Mary visiting a Welsh colliery, 1935. A print from King Emperors Jubilee, 1910-1935, by FGH Salusbury, Daily Express Publications, London, 1935

Diamond mining on the Vaal River, Free State, South Africa, 19th century. Artist: St de Dree
Diamond mining on the Vaal River, Free State, South Africa, 19th century

Interior of a coal mine, 1862. Underground scene in a mine, showing a miner winning coal, while a wagon full of coal is being hauled along rails to the bottom of the pit shaft by a pony

Sectional view of a Newcomen steam engine, 1737. Thomas Newcomen (1663-1729) designed his atmospheric or steam engine in 1712

Coal miners, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Coal miners, between c1910 and c1915.

Oxygen helmets in mine rescues, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Oxygen helmets in mine rescues, between c1910 and c1915.

Dan. Guggenheim, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Dan. Guggenheim, 1910.

Miners among coal boxes, S. Wilkes-Barre, PA., 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Miners among coal boxes, S. Wilkes-Barre, PA., 1912.

Polish miner's home, near Scranton, PA., 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Polish miner's home, near Scranton, PA., 1912.

Wm. Rockefeller, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Wm. Rockefeller, 1910.

Mine rescuer, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Mine rescuer, between c1910 and c1915.

John Hays Hammond, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
John Hays Hammond, between c1910 and c1915. Shows mining engineer, diplomat, and philanthropist John Hays Hammond (1855-1936).

Coal mine idle, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Coal mine idle, between c1910 and c1915.

Penn. [i.e., Pennsylvania] coal strike - some of the 500 in Atlantic camp, between c1910 and c1915.

Miners leaving entrance to coal mine near Scranton, PA., 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Miners leaving entrance to coal mine near Scranton, PA., 1912.

Daniel Guggenheim, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Daniel Guggenheim, 1913. Shows Daniel Guggenheim (1856-1930), an American industrialist and philanthropist.

Scene from "Never Too Late To Mend," at the Princess's Theatre, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Scene from "Never Too Late To Mend," at the Princess's Theatre, 1865. London stage production. 'That interesting drama of modern social life founded upon Mr

The Prince and Princess of Wales descending the Botallack Tin-Mine, Cornwall, 1865. Creator: Unknown
he Prince and Princess of Wales descending the Botallack Tin-Mine, near St. Just, Cornwall, 1865. 'All the ladies and gentlemen

The fatal explosion at St. Edmund's Main Colliery, Barnsley, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The fatal explosion at St. Edmund's Main Colliery, Barnsley: trench cut to the Dearne and the Dove Canal for the purpose of flooding the pit, 1862

The explosion on Wednesday week at Edmund's Main Colliery, Barnsley, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The explosion on Wednesday week at Edmund's Main Colliery, Barnsley, 1862. Instantly a dense column of black smoke sprang from the cupola, like a gigantic tower, towards heaven

View of Kamenskii Cast Iron Smelting Factory [Kamensk-Uralskii], 1910. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
View of Kamenskii Cast Iron Smelting Factory [Kamensk-Uralskii], 1910

Factory in Kyn belonging to Count S.A. Stroganov (work was stopped), 1912. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Factory in Kyn belonging to Count S.A. Stroganov (work was stopped), 1912

Washing brown iron ore at the Shilovskii mine seven versts from the village of Makarovo, 1912

The International Exhibition: the New Zealand Court... 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: the New Zealand Court - from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company, 1862....some articles of furniture

Nova Scotian Goldfields: horizontal formation of auriferous quartz at Laidlaw's Farm, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Nova Scotian Goldfields: horizontal formation of auriferous quartz at Laidlaw's Farm, [Canada], 1862. Engraving of a photograph by Captain W. D. Tompson, of the 17th Regiment

Nova Scotian Goldfields: Laidlaw's Farm, near Halifax, 1862. Creator: Smyth
Nova Scotian Goldfields: Laidlaw's Farm, near Halifax, [Canada], 1862. Engraving of a photograph by Captain W. D. Tompson, of the 17th Regiment

Work at the Bakalskii mine, 1910. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Work at the Bakalskii mine, 1910. A family, with shovels and horse-drawn carts, working at the iron mines in the Bakaly hills

Descent into the Anzherskaya mine, 1911. Creator: Kozlov
Descent into the Anzherskaya mine, 1911. From a collection of documents and photographs from more than thirty participants of the Russian Civil War in the Kuzbass

Cross-cutting, 1911. Creator: Kozlov
Cross-cutting, 1911. From a collection of documents and photographs from more than thirty participants of the Russian Civil War in the Kuzbass

Horses at the slaughter, 1911. Creator: Kozlov
Horses at the slaughter, 1911. From a collection of documents and photographs from more than thirty participants of the Russian Civil War in the Kuzbass

Bremsberg from below, 1911. Creator: Kozlov
Bremsberg from below, 1911. From a collection of documents and photographs from more than thirty participants of the Russian Civil War in the Kuzbass

Anvil Creek gold mine, 1916. Creator: Lomen Brothers
Anvil Creek gold mine, 1916

Miocene Ditch Company's mining operations on Glacier Creek, 1910. Creator: Lomen Brothers
Miocene Ditch Company's mining operations on Glacier Creek, 1910

Cable railway from the Tiazhelyi mine, 1910. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Cable railway from the Tiazhelyi mine, 1910

Stone crusher, Beloomut, 1912. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Stone crusher, Beloomut, 1912. Men standing near a stone cutting machine, river in background

Wedding of Yudin L.G. son of G.V. Yudin, Krasnoyarsk merchant, wine merchant, gold miner, 1900. Creator: Unknown
Wedding of Yudin L.G. son of G.V. Yudin, Krasnoyarsk merchant, wine merchant, gold miner, 1900. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in

Tarradale Viaduct, on the Melbourne and Sandhurst Railway, Australia, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Tarradale [sic] Viaduct, on the Melbourne and Sandhurst Railway, Australia, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by Morris and Co. of Elizabeth-street, Melbourne

The Chaudière Gold-Fields, Canada: the diggings on a tributary of the Chaudière, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
The Chaudiere Gold-Fields, Canada: the diggings on a tributary of the Chaudiere, 1864. Forty-eight years ago a woman, engaged in washing, found a large nugget of gold

The Chaudière Gold-Fields, Canada: the gold-diggers dwellings, 1864. F Creator: Unknown
The Chaudiere Gold-Fields, Canada: the gold-diggers dwellings, 1864. The Chaudiere...flows through a highly picturesque and cultivated valley...In its course the main stream

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