Mining Collection

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

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

Kruchin Vitaly Mikhailovich in the editorial office of the newspaper "Forward"..., 1920s. Creator: Unknown
Kruchin Vitaly Mikhailovich in the editorial office of the newspaper "Forward" (was sent by the Tomsk underground committee of the Bolsheviks in March 1919 as coordinator to the Kemerovo)

Mikhail Alekseevich Pavlov with Senior Students of Vladivostok Polytechnic Institute...Japan, 1922. Creator: Unknown
Mikhail Alekseevich Pavlov with Senior Students of Vladivostok Polytechnic Institute During a Trip to the Ashio-Niko Copper Mine in Japan, Spring 1922

Mikhail Alekseevich Pavlov with Senior Students of Vladivostok Polytechnic Institute...Japan, 1922. Creator: Unknown
Mikhail Alekseevich Pavlov with Senior Students of Vladivostok Polytechnic Institute During a Trip to the Ashio-Niko Mine in Japan, Spring 1922

Mikhail Alekseevich Pavlov by the Chute of an Exploratory Mine, 1920-1929. Creator: Unknown
Mikhail Alekseevich Pavlov by the Chute of an Exploratory Mine, 1920-1929. From the family archive of prominent geologist Mikhail Alekseevich Pavlov (1884-1938)

Washing gold, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Washing gold, 1916.

Hard rock miners, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Hard rock miners, 1916.

Gold mine, between c1900 and 1916. Creator: Unknown
Gold mine, between c1900 and 1916.

Miner panning gold, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Miner panning gold, 1916.

Washing gold, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Washing gold, 1916.

Gold dredge, 1915. Creator: Unknown
Gold dredge, 1915.

Man and dogs on rail cart trip from Shelton to Nome, 1912. Creator: Unknown
Man and dogs on rail cart trip from Shelton to Nome, 1912. Walter W. Johnson, a mining engineer and designer of gold and tin dredges

Miner's festive costume, 1911. Creator: Unknown
Miner's festive costume, 1911. From a collection which includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Victoria, the Chief Town of Vancouver's Island, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Victoria, the Chief Town of Vancouver's Island, 1858. This place, a trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company, bids fair

River Landscape with Mining, 1620-1629. Creator: Marten Ryckaert
River Landscape with Mining, 1620-1629. Mining was an important industry in the Southern Netherlands, Germany and Austria in the 15th-17th centuries

'Miners of the Hartz; From Alsace to the Hartz, 1875. Creator: Unknown
Miners of the Hartz; From Alsace to the Hartz, 1875. From Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London] and Galpin

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