M0018002: Women coal bearers, 1829

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Reproduction of an engraving originally published in 1829, of women in a mine carrying buckets of coal on their backs. Reproduced in Joint Committee on Aids to Teaching.: <i>Illustrations of the industrial revolution</i>, London : British Institute of Adult Education, c.1930.

M0018002: Women coal bearers, 1829

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