Excavating shaft No. 26, page, photomechanical print, photographer: Hall & Son, George P., New York, cliché maker: The Photo-gravure Co., c. 1883 - in or before 1887, North America, paper, collotype, photoprint, height 352 mm x width 281 mm, Print on frontispiece., working class, labourers, digging (industrial process), shafts and galleries (of a mine), A sepia-toned photograph shows a rocky excavation with a rough rock wall as the background and a group of workers standing and sitting on rubble in the foreground, some wearing hats and work clothes and some with tool marks and dirt on their faces and hands; a wooden ladder leans against the rock on the right side and a tripod-mounted mechanical drill or hoisting device stands near the center, surrounded by chains, hoses, and scattered hand tools resting on the ground and on rocks.
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Excavating shaft No. 26, page, photomechanical print, photographer: Hall & Son, George P., New York, cliché maker: The Photo-gravure Co., c. 1883 - in or before 1887, North America, paper, collotype, photoprint, height 352 mm x width 281 mm, Print on frontispiece., working class, labourers, digging (industrial process), shafts and galleries (of a mine), A sepia-toned photograph shows a rocky excavation with a rough rock wall as the background and a group of workers standing and sitting on rubble in the foreground, some wearing hats and work clothes and some with tool marks and dirt on their faces and hands; a wooden ladder leans against the rock on the right side and a tripod-mounted mechanical drill or hoisting device stands near the center, surrounded by chains, hoses, and scattered hand tools resting on the ground and on rocks.

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Excavating shaft No 26 page photomechanical print photographer Hall & Son George P New York cliché maker Photo-gravure Co c 1883 - 1887 North America paper collotype photoprint height 352 mm x width 281 mm Print frontispiece working class labourers digging industrial process shafts galleries mine sepia-toned photograph rocky excavation rough rock wall background group workers standing sitting rubble foreground wearing hats work clothes tool marks dirt faces hands wooden ladder leans right side tripod-mounted mechanical drill hoisting device stands near center surrounded chains hoses scattered hand tools resting ground rocks

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