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  • Schemnitz, Hungary (Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia): a silver mine and miners descending. Engraving by T. Wallis, 1805, after W. Craig.
  • Kimberley, South Africa: miners and washing gear at the Bultfontein diamond mine. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • A mine: cross-section of a machine for extracting water from the pit and three optical diagrams. Etching by T. Jefferys.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy: machinery manufactured by the Bethlehem Steel Company. Photograph, 1904.
  • The controlled explosion of an underwater mine to clear rocks in the East River between Harlem and the Bronx, New York. Wood engraving.
  • Transvaal, South Africa: a gold mining valley occupied by Union Company and Pioneer United Company, with Barberton in the distance. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Oil painting after Marten de Vos.
  • A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Oil painting after Marten de Vos.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, Chicago: a view of the Administration, Mining and Electrical Buildings, seen from the Wooded Island. Chromolithograph with gouache after a painting by J.R. Key, 1894.
  • Sir Hugh Myddelton, in an oval surround underneath which are surveying and mining tools, with a plan of the course of the New River. Line engraving by A. Walker, 1751, after C. Johnson, 1632.
  • A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos, 16th century.
  • A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos, 16th century.
  • A representative of the House of Lords offers whatever they want to a brewer, a mine owner, and a clergyman, but refuses a worker the right to ride along the Thames embankment. Drawing by David Wilson, 1905.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: Vulcan, the Roman god of the forge: a 56 foot high statue in the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy. Photograph, 1904, of a cast iron statue by Giuseppe Moretti, ca. 1904.
  • A gay couple, one wearing sailor attire and makeup, hold up condoms with the message: 'Your condom or mine. I have safe sex or no sex"; an advertisement for safe sex by Stichting soa-bestrijding, Utrecht. Colour lithograph.
  • A needefull, new, and necessarie treatise of Chyrurgerie, briefly comprehending the generall and particuler curation of Ulcers, drawen foorth of sundrie worthy wryters, but especially of Antonius Calmetus Vergesatus and Joannes Tagaltius ... Hereunto is annexed certaine Experimentes of mine owne invention ... truely tried ... / [John Banister].
  • A brief account of some travels in Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli, as also some observations on the gold, silver, copper, quick-silver mines, baths, and mineral waters in those parts. With the figures of some habits and remarkable places / By Edward Brown, M.D.
  • A treatise on ventilators. Wherein an account is given of the happy effects of many trials that have been made of them ... in refreshing the noxious air of ships, hospitals and mines, to the better preservation of the health and lives of mutitudes ... Part second / [Stephen Hales].
  • A treatise on ventilators. Wherein an account is given of the happy effects of many trials that have been made of them ... in refreshing the noxious air of ships, hospitals and mines, to the better preservation of the health and lives of mutitudes ... Part second / [Stephen Hales].
  • A woman in sexy lingerie holding a condom up asks her partner who wears an open frilled shirt and pin-striped trousers: 'Your condom or mine. I'll have safe sex or no sex"; an advertisement for safe sex by Stichting soa-bestrijding, Utrecht. Colour lithograph.
  • A complete system of geography. Being a description of all thecountries, islands, cities, chief towns, harbours, lakes, and rivers, mountains, mines, &c. of the known world. Shewing the situation, extent, and boundaries of the several empires, kingdoms, republics, principalities, provinces, &c. their climate, soil, and produce ... and the distance and bearing of all the principal towns from one another. Including the most material revolutions and changes that have happen'd in every state ... / The whole llustrated with seventy maps by Emanuel Bowen.
  • Coal and coke works at Le Creusot, Saône-et-Loire: a railway siding with coal drops, railway trucks carrying coal, and colliery buildings. Wood engraving by H. Linton after J. Férat.
  • Collier and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Various stages of iron mining. Etching.
  • Above, allegorical figures of Reason and Revelation, standing in niches; below, men and devils digging in a saltmine. Engraving, 1670/1685, after W. Hollar, 1659.
  • Gold mining: a man using a hose to wash away soil. Wood engraving.
  • African workers washing for diamonds in Brazil. Etching after T. Webster after J. Mawe, 1815.
  • Sêrro do Frio, Minas Gerais, Brazil: slaves washing soil for diamonds, supervised by men with whips. Coloured aquatint by D. Klemi-Bonatti, 1821, after J. Mawe.