EditorialMills and mines. Part of the great Homestake works, Lead City, Dak., John C. H. Grabill was an american photographer. In 1886 he opened his first photographic studio.
EditorialFOWEY CONSOLS COPPER MINE, a group of mines in the St Blazey district of Cornwall. UK, britain, british, europe, united kingdom, great britain, european.
EditorialHistory of France. Decazeville strike. Military patrols crossing the Duke of Decazes square occupied by the strikers in the coal mines and steel mills. Engraving in 1886 by Comba. Colored engraving.
EditorialWar of Spanish Succession (1702-1715). Entry of the troops of Philip V in Barcelona in 1714, opening gaps in the wall of the city with guns and mines, to render the place. Drawing by P. Rigaud and engraving by M. Engelbrecht, 1722. Historical Museum of...
EditorialExhibition of native gold nuggets, proceeding from the mines discovered on the banks of the river Kaap (province of Natal). Durban. South Africa. Colored engraving of "The Spanish and American Illustration" (1886).
EditorialExhibition of native gold nuggets, proceeding from the mines discovered on the banks of the river Kaap (province of Natal). Durban. South Africa. Engraving of "The Spanish and American Illustration" (1886).
EditorialA mine in Bytom, Poland. Many German workers left Bytom (the former Beuthen) after the war and in 1956 there was a shortage of miners. Bytom,1956.
EditorialWashroom at the former Hohenzollern-mine in Bytom. Most of the miners were Silesians who spoke better German than Polish,but had Polish citizenship.Coal was one of Communist Poland's major exports;miners' wages were higher than average. Bytom,1956.
EditorialJosef Gottschalk and his wife at lunch. A miner in the former Hohenzollern mine, he was drafted into the German army and returned to Poland and his old job in 1949, after years in a Russian POW-camp. His eldest son, aged 20, works in the same mine. B...
EditorialThe " Iron Curtain" dividing Europe into East and West, also divided Austria and Hungary. Between May 10th and early September, in a brief thaw before the Hungarian Revolution of the autumn of 1956, Hungarian soldiers cleared the area of mine...
EditorialThe " Iron Curtain" dividing Europe into East and West, also divided Austria and Hungary. In a brief thaw before the Hungarian Revolution of the autumn of 1956, Hungarian soldiers cleared the area of mines and took down the barbed wire fence ...
EditorialThe " Iron Curtain" dividing Europe into East and West, also divided Austria and Hungary. In a brief thaw before the Hungarian Revolution of the autumn of 1956, Hungarian soldiers cleared the area of mines and took down the barbed wire fence ...
EditorialThe "Iron Curtain" dividing Europe into East and West also divided Austria and Hungary. Between 10 May and early September 1956, in a brief thaw before the revolution, Hungarian soldiers cleared the area of mines and took down the barbed-wire fences on...
EditorialThe moon over the Arabah valley which leads from the southern end of the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqabah. A very important north-south route in biblical times, the Arabah contained valuable copper mines, among them the so-called " Solomon's mines&q...
EditorialArava, Israel, a near-desert valley stretches from the southern end of the Dead Sea to the northern end of the Gulf of Akkaba. Gateway to the Red Rocks of Timnah, ancient copper mines called " Solomon's Mines" .
EditorialSteles at the temple of Hathor with Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions. The Israelites rested here during the Exodus. The temple is on the site of the tourquoise mines exploited during the 13th BCE, 18th Dynasty, Sinai, Egypt.
EditorialHarris Papyrus, representation of the reign of Pharaoh Ramses III, his donations to temples, his wars, his expeditions to the mines and Egypt's prosperity; his death and the advent of Ramses IV. From Thebes, 1184-1153 BCE.
EditorialSteles, mostly from a 12th Dynasty (20th-18th BCE) temple of Hathor with proto-sinaitic inscriptions. The remains of the temple are on the site of turquoise mines exploited during the 18th Dynasty.
EditorialPapyrus fragment. Map of the gold mines in the Sinai. 20th Dynasty (12th-11th BCE), New Kingdom, Egypt. 282 x 41 cm Drovetti Collection Inv. 1879.
EditorialAncient silver mines in Lavrion. Remains of silver washing plant with channels and receptacles. The precious metals sank and were retained in the cups.