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Men are working in a salt mine using hammers to break the rock and others are carrying it away in handcarts. Mixed method print by P. Herwegen after Hans Brunner.

A salt works: one man is feeding a furnace as others use shovels to transfer the dried salt from the pans into barrels. Mixed method print by P. Herwegen after Hans Bruner.

Women and men being fitted with the clothes for work in salt mines, other people are watching from the edge of the room. Mixed method print after P. Herwegen after Hans Brunner.

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Women and men being fitted with the clothes for work in salt mines, other people are watching from the edge of the room. Mixed method print after P. Herwegen after Hans Brunner.

A salt works: one man is feeding a furnace as others use shovels to transfer the dried salt from the pans into barrels. Mixed method print by P. Herwegen after Hans Bruner.

Men are working in a salt mine using hammers to break the rock and others are carrying it away in handcarts. Mixed method print by P. Herwegen after Hans Brunner.