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.

Peak Frean Biscuit Manufactory, London.

Gillott's Pen Manufactory, Birmingham. The process of slitting.

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