Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain:
Images of Coal and Iron Collieries
The Colliery Environment

DSC01499 The Strike Punch 11-5-1859

Punch, November 5, 1859

Click to see Women and Children
workers in the Colliery

Ann Ambler & William Dyson

Click to see a Hewer (naked)
without boots

Naked hewer without boots

Click to see Women and Children
workers in the Colliery

Royal Commission on Employment of Children 1st report Clatch-iron windlass

Click to see a Woman Hewer (naked)
at the pit face

Royal Commission on Employment of Children 1st report fig 4

Click to see the Halifax Guardian
view of women and children mine workers

halifax guardian fig 7 5-21-1842

Click to see a Woman Hewer (naked)
at the pit face

Royal Commission on Employment of Children 1st report fig 5

Click to see a Hurrier at work

childrens emp commission fig 2

Click to see a Woman Hewer (naked)
at the pit face

Royal Commission on Employment of Children 1st report fig 6

Click to see a child "trapper"
and a Hurrier pushing a "hutchie"

childrens emp commission fig 5

Click to see a Woman Hewer (naked)
at the pit face

westminster review 1842 fig 7

Click to see a woman "Headsman"
pulling coal with two children pushers

Hurrier_Cobden_1853

Click to see brow Lasses
"Screening" (Munby, 1892)

Brow Lasses, Munby 6-22-1892

Click to see children and women
hauling coal

Children & Women Hauling Coal p2

Click to see drop at Wallsend

Drop at Wallsend (coal)

Click to see a girl dragging a corf
Halifax, 1842

scan0041 Girl dragging corf Halifax 1842

Click to see Waggonway with
keel at staith in the background

DSC01613 Waggonway keel at staith

Click to see Woman carrying coal

DSC01614 woman carrying coal

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