Coal tongs posters & prints

Playtime Henriette Ronner-Knip

Sardine Tongs George Shadford Lee and Henry Wigfull

Huge Scoop Full of Coal Anonymous

Works at Blaenavon Richard Colt Hoare

Boy pushing a truck loaded with coal from the coal face to the bottom of the pit shaft, c1848 Unknown

Collieries, c1805 Unknown

The measure and transport of coal Antoine Verard

Pitmen Hewing the Coal in a Mine, 1871 Anonymous

Allowing a Car to Pass in the Shaft Anonymous

Boy 'putter' drawing a truck containing coal along a 24 inch high seam, Halifax, Yorkshire, 1848 Unknown

The Burning Well Near the Featherstone Station in the Vicinity of Pontefract Anonymous

Fire and Childhood: Boy with Fire Tongs and Torch, 1623-25 Jan the Elder Lievens

A boy and girl being wound up a mine shaft, illustration printed in the 'Westminster Review', July 1842 English School

Woman and children coal 'putters', Mid and East Lothian, Scotland, 1848 J Christie

Coal mining: sending baskets (corves) of coal to the surface of a mine, 1852 Unknown

Woman 'putter' dragging a sledge of coal along a narrow seam, South Wales, c1848 Unknown

The coal miner carrying his tools and safety his lamp, 1890 Unknown

Pithead at Hebburn Colliery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne area, 1860 Unknown

Sleeping putto Anonymous

Coalman, 1826 Unknown

Silver mine of La Croix-aux-Mines, Lorraine, fol.21v and 22r, coalmen, c.1530 Heinrich Gross or Groff

Early 19th century coal miner working a narrow seam, c1868. Anonymous

Sketch of the Harrington Mill Pitt Colliery, County Durham, early 19th century Middlemist

Breaker boys who sort coal by hand at Ewen Breaker of Pennsylvania Coal Co, South Pittston, Pennsylvania, 1911 Lewis Wickes Hine

Coal miner working a narrow seam, c1864. Anonymous

Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight, 1835 Joseph Mallord William Turner

Female Drawer in a Coal-Pit at Little Bolton, 1842 English School

Plate 19: Vulcan standing in a niche swinging a hammer, with an anvil, hammer, and tongs a…, 1526 Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio

Coal mining accident, Tynewydd Colliery, South Wales, April 1877 (c1885) William Heysham Overend

Coal mining accident, Seaham Colliery, County Durham, 1880 (c1895) Anonymous

The Bottom of the Shaft, 1862 Unknown

Rail mounted coal cutting machine, 1864 Unknown

Interior of a coal mine, 1862 Unknown

Crane for loading the rollies Thomas H. Hair

Miners' safety lamp John Farey

Plate 100 from 'Jerusalem', 1804-20 William Blake