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Slide set: Coal mining: or, underground life (lecture: York & Son, 30 slides, 1894)

Known references to this set (listed below slide images)
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Slide 5
Undercutting Coal
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Slide 7
Cutting the Bottom Layers of Coal
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Slide 9
Boring a Shot Hole in the Top Coal
Slide 10
Percussive Hand Boring
Slide 11
Drilling with a Machine
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Slide 13
Loading Slack
Slide 14
Fixing short Timber Props
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Slide 16
Effects of Pressure on Masonry and Timber
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Slide 18**
Haulage by Horses
Slide 19
Self-acting Incline Haulage
Slide 20
Endless Rope Haulage
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Slide 23
Testing the Roof
Slide 24
Separation Doors between Intake and Return Airways
Slide 25**
Testing for Gas
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Slide 27
Limestone Mining, showing Pillars
Slide 28
Limestone Mining, view down a Stall
Slide 29
Underground Stables
Slide 30
Meal-time Underground
** there are alternative versions or views of this slide
Catalogue entries (7)
1901
Catalogue of lantern slides: season 1901-2 (Dundee: Peter Feathers, 1901), 39
1905
Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 141
1906
1909
Descriptive catalogue of lantern slides: available for hire or purchase (London: Walter Tyler, 1909), 394

“From direct Copyright Negatives, produced by Herbert W. Hughes, F.G.S., Assoc. R.S.M. Author of 'A Text Book of Coal-mining.'

The majority of these photographs have been taken in the famous thirty-feet seam of South Staffordshire, and in addition to their interest to the general public, are of great educational value in conveying to mining students an accurate idea of things as they exist underground, far more so than can be obtained from diagrams.”

1912
Catalogue of lantern slides for sale or hire (Manchester: Josiah T. Chapman, 1912), 211

“From direct Copyright Negatives produced by H.W. Hughes, F.G.S., Associate B.S.M.

The majority of these photographs have been taken in the famous thirty-feet seam of South Staffordshire, and in addition to their interest to the general public, are of great educational value in conveying to mining students an accurate idea of things as they exist underground, far more so than can be obtained from diagrams.”

1913
Lantern and slide catalogue 1913-14 (London: Church Army, 1913), 261

“From direct Copyright Negatives produced by H.W. Hughes, F.G.S., Associate B.S.M.”

c.1913
Lijst van lantaarnplaatjes (Nijmegen and Amsterdam: Ivens & Co., c.1913), 179

“From direct copyright negatives”

Lucerna ID  3001023

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 13 March 2024

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