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  • 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.
  • Coal mining and diagrams of instruments used. Etching by Bénard.
  • Section of Coal Tar Colour Works at Greenford. 19th C
  • Sectio of Coal Tar Colour Works at Greenford. 19th C
  • Water course with coal seam
  • "We'll take this into the nursery" : Wright's Coal Tar Soap : 4d per tablet.
  • Sections of a coal mine. Etching by Garner.
  • A receptacle for burning coal to heat cautery instruments. Engraving.
  • A receptacle for burning coal to heat cautery instruments. Engraving.
  • Improved machinery for use working coal mines. Etching by J. Pass.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the Consolidation, Fairmont and Somerset Coal Companies exhibition stand: models of the mines. Photograph, 1904.
  • Coal Tar Colour Works at Greenford in 1858 & 1873. Plant belonging to W. H. Perkin and his brother, T. D. Perkin.
  • [Section of coal miner's lung showing severe pneumoconiosis] / J. Gough, J. Wentworth.
  • [Section of coal miner's lung showing severe pneumoconiosis] / J. Gough, J. Wentworth.
  • A coal tit on the flowering branch of an Hibiscus plant. Watercolour.
  • A coal mine: miners at work above and below ground. Coloured lithograph.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: a smiling nurse carrying a coal scuttle. Photograph, c.1890.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: a smiling nurse carrying a coal scuttle. Photograph, c.1890.
  • Apparatus for coal mining and two illustrations of coalmines. Engraving by A. Krausse for G. Heck.
  • Women coal bearers. Where the mine was not large enough for horses to work, men pushed the coal on a low carriage: where the ascent is too steep for this method, women bearers were employed carrying buckets on their backs.
  • Machinery designed by Smeaton for extracting coal from the pits. Etching by W. Lowry after J. Farey.
  • Perkin jubilee of the coal-tar industry / The Committee of Fifteen, Chas. F. Chandler, chairman [and others].
  • Perkin jubilee of the coal-tar industry / The Committee of Fifteen, Chas. F. Chandler, chairman [and others].
  • Perkin jubilee of the coal-tar industry / The Committee of Fifteen, Chas. F. Chandler, chairman [and others].
  • A coal porter, an alchemist and a rich man who hopes vainly to profit from alchemy. Etching, 18th century.
  • A coal porter, an alchemist and a rich man who hopes vainly to profit from alchemy. Etching, 18th century.
  • A home nurse carrying a 'hot-coal' bed warmer. Coloured wood engraving by J.A. Lavieille after H.B. Monnier.
  • A coal mine in the human brain; representing medical assistance by Tomasz Judym to industrial workers. Colour lithograph by Wongel, 1976.
  • Wattstown, Wales: a rescue brigade of the coal mine, with breathing equipment and a training dummy. Photograph by A. Davies, 1914.
  • Wattstown, Wales: a rescue brigade of the coal mine, with breathing equipment and a training dummy. Photograph by A. Davies, 1914.