Pick Collection

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

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

The Siege of Sebastopol - Working Party of Highlanders and Sailors in the 21-Gun Battery, 1854. Creator: Unknown
The Siege of Sebastopol - Working Party of Highlanders and Sailors in the 21-Gun Battery, 1854. Crimean War....the French...opened heavily on the Quarantine Battery

Bone Pick, Peru, 1000 / 1476. Creator: Unknown
Bone Pick, Peru, 1000/1476

Lead Prospectors Ore Pick, 1939. Creator: Albert Geuppert
Lead Prospectors Ore Pick, 1939

Gold Miner, California, 19th century. A print from le Tour du Monde

The Queen visiting a Cornish Iron Mine, c1840s, (1900). Queen Victoria is shown round a mine. Illustration from The life and times of Queen Victoria by Robert Wilson, (1900)

In China, Incident between Russians and English, 1901. Illustration published in, Le Petit Journal, 7th April 1901

Miners safety lamp, 1833. Artist: Jackson
Miners safety lamp, 1833. Humphry Davys invention of 1815, the miners safety lamp, which enabled deeper, more gaseous seams to be mined without risk of explosion

Miners washing for gold in the Californian gold fields, 1853. The apparatus they are using is called a Long Tom. The discovery of gold in 1848 led to mass immigration into California

Prospectors on their way to the Californian gold fields, 1853. Hopefuls off to the Californian gold fields with their belongings and equipment loaded on their horses and carrying pistols and a rifle

Mining prospector in the Californian gold fields, 1853. The discovery of gold in 1848 led to mass immigration into California

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