Mine Shaft Collection

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

Hoisting ore & lowering miners, Lead Homestake Mine, between 1900 and 1910. Creator: William H. Jackson
Hoisting ore & lowering miners, Lead Homestake Mine, between 1900 and 1910

Falun Copper Mine, c18th century. Creator: Per Hillestrom
Falun Copper Mine, c18th century

'Le puits le plus important des gites diamantiferes de Kimberley; Afrique Australe, 1914. Creator: Unknown
'Le puits le plus important des gites diamantiferes de Kimberley; Afrique Australe, 1914. From "Grande Geographie Bong Illustree", 1914

The Transvaal Gold Fields and how to reach them--Ladies visit to the Jumpers Gold Mining... 1890. Creator: Unknown
The Transvaal Gold Fields and how to reach them--Ladies visit to the Jumpers Gold Mining Company--Going down in the cage, 1890

Placard Erected by Mr. Rhodes, 1900. Creator: Hancox
Placard Erected by Mr. Rhodes, 1900. Cecil John Rhodes was a British businessman, mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896

Charters Towers Goldfield, 1901. Creator: Unknown
Charters Towers Goldfield, 1901. Mine shafts built from 1883 to 1916 during a period of intense gold mining. From " Federated Australia". [The Werner Company, London, 1901]

At Work in a Victorian Gold-Mine, 1923. Creator: Unknown
At Work in a Victorian Gold-Mine, 1923. From " Australia, New Zealand and Oceania in Pictures", by H. Clive Barnard, M.A. Blitt. [A. & C. Black, Limited, London, 1923]

Hoyland Silkstone Collieries, Yorkshire, c1896. Artist: Warner Gothard
Hoyland Silkstone Collieries, Yorkshire, c1896. From Pictorial England and Wales. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, c1896]

The scene of the Coal Strike: A typical South Wales coat mine, 1915. On 15 July 1915 about 200, 000 coalminers in south Wales went on strike

Coal and iron production, 1926. Artist: Edgar & Winifred Ward
Coal and iron production, 1926. From An Outline of Christianity, The Story of Our Civilisation, volume 5: Christianity Today and Tomorrow, edited by RG Parsons and AS Peake

A mining centre, 1926. Artist: Edgar & Winifred Ward
A mining centre, 1926. From An Outline of Christianity, The Story of Our Civilisation, volume 5: Christianity Today and Tomorrow, edited by RG Parsons and AS Peake

Soviet Poster, 1930

Labour in Paris, 1899. Artist: F Meaulle
Labour in Paris, 1899. Building works fro the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 15th May 1899

Mineralogy, cross section of a mine, 1751-1777. A print from the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers by Diderot & d Alembert, 1751-1777

Coal mining accident, Seaham Colliery, County Durham, 1880 (c1895). Men being lowered down the pit shaft in a coal tub to begin rescue operations after the disaster of September 1880

The Bottom of the Shaft, 1862. Wagons of coal are being wheeled to the pit shaft, placed in a cage and hauled to the surface. From The Popular Encyclopaedia. (Glasgow and London, 1862)

Mining for rock salt, c1890. Miners being lowered down a shaft on rope slings to begin their shift in the salt mine at Wieliczka, Galicia, Poland

Coal mining: sending baskets (corves) of coal to the surface of a mine, 1852. From The Wonders of Home by Grandfather Grey. (London, 1852)

Rock Salt: Miners at work in salt mine near Cracow, Poland, c1820. Not all the salt is excavated, some pillars being left to support the roof of the mine

Dream Lead Mine, near Wirksworth, Derbyshire, 1881. Sectional view showing the workings and the position in which a skeleton of a rhinoceros was discovered

Thomas Saverys steam pump or the miners friend, 1702 (1726). Saverys steam powered pump was used for draining water out of mines. From Lexicon Technicum, by John Harris, 1726

Section of a Coal Mine, 1860. Artist: Thomas Dick
Section of a Coal Mine, 1860. A general pit head scene showing an engine house for a steam engine, the pit head winding gear and the underground areas of the mine in cross section

Bottom of a pit shaft in a coal mine with a train of loaded wagons, 1860
Bottom of a pit shaft in a coal mine with a train of loaded wagons waiting to be hoisted to the surface, 1860. The coal wagons have flanged wheels

Sectional view of a German mine, 1556
Sectional view of a German mine showing the method of sinking shafts and driving horizontal galleries, 1556. A windlass is used to raise and lower men, materials and spoil

Felix Faure, President of the Republic, in the Mines at Lens, 1898. Artist: F Meaulle
Felix Faure, President of the Republic, in the Mines at Lens, 1898. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 11th December 1898

Sectional view of a mine showing shafts and galleries, 1556. At the surface of each shaft is a winch or windlass for raising and lowering loads

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