Coal miners, China
Coal Miners'. A mine near Patung. The coal faces are vertical, so that workings are sunk obliquely into the rock... they sink no perpendicular shafts, nor do they require ventilation'. A miner worked from 7 am to 4 pm for an average wage of seven shillings a week
Picture No
11939107
Media ID
46076935
Size
3020px x 2498px
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Credit
© The John Meek Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
Usage Restrictions
Editorial Use Only
Source
From Illustrations of China and its People' by J Thomson, published by Sampson Low, 1874. Photograph: John Meek
Date
1874
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