Mines
Taking the rock out. Coal and copper and salt, the shaft and the drift, room-and-pillar and longwall, the cage and the headframe, the mining town, the machines that replaced ten thousand men, and the pits that closed.
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41 moments in this segment.
- - George Carnac, miner. Title: George Carnac, miner Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print. Period photograph.
- - A power drill at the Echo Mining Company mine, Mojave Mining District, ca.1900 (CHS. A power drill at the Echo Mining Company mine, Mojave Mining District, ca.1900 Photograph of a power drill in operation at the Echo Mining Company mine, Mojave Mining District. Dust is generated at ri. Period photograph.
- - E.M. Hamilton, discoverer of Willow Springs Mine near Rosamond, Antelope Valley, at the mi. 1900 Photograph of miner E.M. Hamilton, discoverer of Willow Springs Mine near Rosamond, Antelope Valle. Period photograph.
- - Mass portrait, Congo, ca. 1900. 1915 Black and white lantern slide showing a portrait of many men, women and children posed what may be a hill up to a mine-shaft in colonial Belgian Congo (present day. Period photograph.
- - Derby Mine, Mill & Camp, Thumb Butte Prescott. Millsite and Camp, Derby Mine, Prescott Arizona -Thumb Butte Mining District, George U. Young. Period photograph.
- - Derby Mine George Young Highland Pines Prescott. Miners in Thumb Butte Mining District, George U. Young of Derby Mines, Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory. Period photograph.
- - File-A0017--Old mine opening -?. A0017--Old mine opening [?] [1905.03.09] Keywords: Anthracite industry; (NPS Focus Subject Thesaurus); Mining. Period photograph.
- - File-A0018--Old mine opening -?. A0018--Old mine opening [?] [1905.03.09] Keywords: snow; abandonned; Anthracite industry; (NPS Focus Subject Thesaurus); Mining. Period photograph.
- - Coal wagons waiting in line 6 blocks long to get coal at one of the largest coal yards in. Title: Coal wagons waiting in line 6 blocks long to get coal at one of the largest coal yards in Chicago... Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print. Period photograph.
- - Italian and African-American Clay Miners in Mine Shaft. Title: Italian and African-American Clay Miners in Mine Shaft. Period photograph.
- - Lewis Hine, Jim McNulty, 15 years old, miner, North Pittston, Pennsylvania, 1911. Jim McNulty, 10 Morgan St. Is a leader inside the mine at Leadville Shaft. Said he was 15 years old. Location: North Pittston, Pennsylvania. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine, January 1911. [PD] This p. Period photograph.
- - Company buildings. Lovett, Alberta, ca. 1915. From the Godby Family fonds, PR2009.0441/15. Period photograph.
- - Company houses. Mining company houses set up on clear-cut land. Lovett, Alberta, ca. 1915. From the Godby Family fonds, PR2009.0441/15. Period photograph.
- - Company houses and store. Mining company houses and store on clear-cut land. Lovett, Alberta, ca. 1915. From the Godby Family fonds, PR2009.0441/15. Period photograph.
- - Coal executives, 7-31-22. Title: Coal executives, 7/31/22 Abstract/medium: 1 negative: glass; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Period photograph.
- - Coal mining. Title: Coal mining Abstract/medium: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress) Physical description: 1 negative:. Period photograph.
- - Tinstone: how it is obtained in a Cornish mine (1933). British Pathe newsreel showing black tin ore raised from a Cornish mine and put through its first crushing.
- - The Cornish engine (1948). Shell's 1948 documentary on the Cornish pumping engines, in their day the most powerful and economical steam pumps in the world, which kept the tin mines dry.
- - Coal Miners. Title: Coal Miners Abstract/medium: 1 negative: glass; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
- - Kulutusosuuskuntien Keskusliiton kokoelma D1974 7486H. Otanmäen kaivoksen työntekijöitä. Alkuperäinen kuvateksti: "Jämeriä 'mainareita' kaivoskuilun edustalla. Vasemmalta työnjohtaja Sulo Orvassaari, huoltomies Matti Lankinen ja konelastaaja Toivo Ohvanai.
- - Cornish tin mining at Camborne (1966). Newsreel following miners into the cage at Camborne, then through the winding gear and ore dressing floors above ground.
- - Britain: revival of tin mining (1970). Agency newsreel on the attempted revival of Cornish tin mining, an industry killed less by exhausted lodes than by the tin price slump of 1890 and the Depression.
- - American strip mining in Appalachia (1974). Thames Television report on twenty-five years of strip mining across the Appalachian mountains, with whole mountainsides blasted for thin coal seams.
- - Cornwall's last tin mine closes, 1998. BBC Spotlight report filmed underground at South Crofty near Camborne on 6 March 1998, its final day of production.
- - Wieliczka salt mine (UNESCO). UNESCO record of the Wieliczka-Bochnia rock salt deposit, mined since the thirteenth century and holding 300km of galleries over nine levels.
- - John Thomas Hollings. This mug shot comes from a police identification book believed to be from the 1930s. It was originally found in a junk shop by a member of the public and subsequently donated to Tyne & Wear Archives &.
- - Copper mining and smelting at Bingham Canyon. Mid-twentieth-century industrial film showing how ore was won and processed at the Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah.
- - Marion Steam Shovel Co.. Persistent URL: contentdm.lib.miamioh.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p... Subject: machinery industry; industrial facilities; factories; steam shovels; Ohio--Marion; miami digital collections; bowd.
- - Marion Steam Shovel Co. Plant. Persistent URL: contentdm.lib.miamioh.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p... Subject: machinery industry; industrial facilities; factories; steam shovels; Ohio--Marion; miami digital collections; bowd.
- - The coal town system. American Experience on the company towns West Virginia coal operators built for their miners, unincorporated and policed by private detective agencies.
- - Going underground: the Wieliczka salt mine. DW report on the mine, inscribed by UNESCO in 1978 and now one of Poland's most visited sites.
- - Coal yard, 12-7-22. Title: Coal yard, 12/7/22 Abstract/medium: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress) Physical description: 1 negative:.
- - Coal mining & (...), 9-9-21. Title: Coal mining & [...], 9/9/21 Abstract/medium: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress) Physical description: 1 negative:.
- - Nine centuries of coal (1958 National Coal Board film). A National Coal Board documentary tracing nine hundred years of British coal extraction and the communities built around it.
- - Before the Great Orme: metal ores in Early Bronze Age Britain. Society of Antiquaries lecture on the discovery and working of copper ores in Britain before the Great Orme mine, the largest prehistoric copper mine known.
- - Bingham Canyon, the largest excavation in human history. The Utah open pit, the biggest in the world, has been dug miles wide and deep in pursuit of copper.
- - The salt mines of Wieliczka. A tour of the Wieliczka workings in the Carpathian foothills, with their salt lakes, caverns, chapels and carved figures.
- - The lost tunnels of the Wieliczka salt mine. Beneath Wieliczka in southern Poland run more than 180 miles of workings, including chapels and a cathedral carved entirely from rock salt.
- - How ancient salt mining transformed prehistoric Europe. The brine springs of the Carpathians and the rock salt of Hallstatt, and how control of salt reshaped Bronze Age economies.
- - The royal salt mines of Poland. Polish public broadcaster episode on the medieval royal salt mines at Wieliczka and Bochnia, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
- - Hallstatt: a prehistoric salt mine as a data archive. Salt has been won at Hallstatt for over 7,000 years, and the salt has preserved tools, textiles and everyday objects that survive nowhere else.