Hello, I'm René. I enjoy photographs of people, nature, and travel, with a touch of nostalgia.
The photographs, taken in mines across the county by pioneering photographer J.C. Burrow, show the harsh conditions in which miners struggled for decades underground.
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Offering a new Fine Art quality archival pigment reprint of Lewis Hine's photo of Breaker Boys in the Hughestown Pennsylvania Coal Mine, 1911. This is a high quality print, unframed, approximately 8x10" on 8 1/2x11" archival paper, suitable for matting, framing and display. Lewis Wickes Hine (1874 – 1940) was an American sociologist and photographer. He used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States. From the Fine Art Los Angeles Collection, a unique group of fine art photos from the pioneers of photography. Your print will not have a watermark and will be shipped safely in a rigid photo mailer for its protection. FREE SHIPPING in the U.S. Enjoy!
Coal is going out of business in Scotland. One duke and an inventive architect teamed up to replace it with revitalizing the community.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is owed an estimated $3.7 billion (£2.2 billion) in unpaid customs duties and fines by companies operating in its
Taken near to the Riber Hall Manor in Derbyshire...UK.
Abandoned Mine in Ural Mountains in Russia - posted by Greg in the Underground category.
Lewis Hine: "Wanted Small Boys - Apply 1st Floor"
Crown Engine House, Botallack, Cornwall, England by Peter Hulance
More than 1,500 black and white images show the lives of impoverished families and the lowly beginnings of towns like Rock, Fowey, Newquay and St Ives before they became tourist hotspots.
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First trip to Botallack, was in a bit of a rush since I wasn't sure exactly where they where and ended up parking in the village a little distance away. Not only that I wanted to get down to Cape Cornwall for the sunset so after grabbing a few shots I virtually ran back to the car!
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The stairs of the Helsinki Cathedral were filled with the Guinness world record attempt for the largest crocheted patchwork quilt of the world, making a quite large blanket.
May 19th, 1902. All 216 miners working underground at the Fraterville Coal Mine in Tennessee, are killed by an explosion. For a while, 26 miners survive in a side passage. But they suffocate before rescue workers can reach them. Some of those 26 spend their final hours writing letters to loved ones. Jacob Vowell … Continue reading "A Dying Miner’s Letter To His Beloved Wife (1902)"
After Nadar comprises nine autobiographical self-portraits of Maggs dressed as Pierrot, the Italian commedia dell’arte character celebrated in French pantomime of the 1800s.
#4. When Claire isn’t afraid to take charge in a room full of men.
1. This used to be the richest silver mine in the world Silver Islet refers to both a small rocky island and a small community located at the tip of the Sibley Peninsula in northwestern Ontario, Canada. A rich vein of pure silver was discovered on this small island in 1868 by the Montreal Mining
At artist Ann Hamilton's website, we found an extraordinary meditation on words, and the question: 'how can words be acts of making?'
The images show the perilous conditions miners operated in.
Belgian painter Alfonse Van Besten (1865-1926) embraced technology, utilising innovative color processes to transfer black and white photographs into vivid, at times lurid autochromes. The tableaux of his autochromes (a technology patented by the Lumière brothers in 1903 and the first colour photographic process developed on an industrial scale) are often bucolic and romantic. Demure ladies and … Continue reading "Alfonse Van Besten’s Dreamy Autochromes (1910-1915)"
