Mining -- Shafts, Drilling, and Loading
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Missionary Catechists of Divine Providence.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Civil Engineering Department
- Underwood and Underwood
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- Division of Work and Industry Lantern Slide Collection
- Division of Work and Industry Lantern Slide Collection / Series 2: Extractive Industries
- Date
- 1934, undated
- Archival Repository
- Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Identifier
- NMAH.AC.1013, Subseries 2.4.6
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Division of Work and Industry Lantern Slide Collection, 1758-1945, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
- Collection Rights
- Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
- Scope and Contents
- Include photographic images, a diagram, an illustration, and a chart primarily documenting mining work inside American and British tunnels and shafts. The images provide a good representation of what the work environment was like. There is scaffolding, timbering supports, suspended platforms, and ladders. Workers are shown operating machinery and equipment with electric lamps, electric shovels, and other tools. Loader trucks, conveyors, car tracks, and carts document the transporting of workers, tools, and coal. Of interest is also the lighting systems shown in some of the images.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection open for research on site by appointment. Unprotected photographs must be handled with gloves.
- Record ID
- ebl-1729165200751-1729165239543-2
- Metadata Usage
- CC0