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

Click to see Women and Children workers in the Colliery		Click to see a Hewer (naked) without boots
Click to see Women and Children workers in the Colliery		Click to see a Woman Hewer (naked) at the pit face
Click to see the Halifax Guardian view of women and children mine workers		Click to see a Woman Hewer (naked) at the pit face
Click to see a Hurrier at work		Click to see a Woman Hewer (naked) at the pit face
Click to see a child "trapper" and a Hurrier pushing a "hutchie"		Click to see a Woman Hewer (naked) at the pit face
Click to see a woman "Headsman" pulling coal with two children pushers		Click to see brow Lasses "Screening" (Munby, 1892)
Click to see children and women hauling coal		Click to see drop at Wallsend
Click to see a girl dragging a corf Halifax, 1842		Click to see Waggonway with keel at staith in the background
Click to see Woman carrying coal