Title

The pawn office at Merthyr-Tydfil, Wales, 1875. Artist: Unknown

Caption

The pawn office at Merthyr-Tydfil, Wales, 1875. Mining families pawn possessions during the lock-out in South Wales. A print from The Illustrated London News, (20 February 1875).
The Print Collector collection

Date

1875

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C21_186

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,1Mb (3,7Mb) / 16,9in x 11,5in / 5070 x 3454 (300dpi)

Keywords

female women woman people male child children employment man men shopping shop shops Wales baby babies industry country guy fuel poor poverty location Victorian century newspaper lady concept Welsh coal B&W MONOCHROME coal mining Coal Industry 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century possessions The Print Collector Illustrated London News pawn shop TGN ILN industrial dispute lock-out Merthyr Tydfil engraving Unknown engraving