Title

Boy 'putter' drawing a truck containing coal along a 24 inch high seam, Halifax, Yorkshire, 1848. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Boy 'putter' drawing a truck containing 2 1/4 cwt of coal along a 24 inch high seam, Halifax, Yorkshire, 1848. This illustrates the hardship of conditions underground in the British coal industry in the mid 19th century. From A Treatise on the Winning and Working of Collieries by Matthias Dunn. (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1848).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1848

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B65_234

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (2,1Mb) / 20,9in x 9,3in / 6272 x 2789 (300dpi)

Keywords

England people childhood male boy boys child children event work industry country British tunnel English mining miner fuel pulling underground location heavy Victorian century Britain concept coal exploitation B&W narrow cramped dragging coal mine hardship MONOCHROME coal mining industrial revolution West Yorkshire Coal Industry 19th century black & white black and white B W Halifax coal miner claustrophobic nineteenth century Oxford Science Archive child labour coal truck TGN engraving Unknown Dunn Matthias Dunn Matthias Matthias Dunn engraving