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[Men in a coal(?) mine: 2 men using the safety lamp] – Vintage Wall Art

[Men in a coal(?) mine: 2 men using the safety lamp], c1906. — historic photograph
[Men in a coal(?) mine: 2 men using the safety lamp], c1906.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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Two men are shown handling a safety lamp, a flame-shielded light that let underground workers see in gas-laden tunnels without setting off an explosion. The title places the scene in a coal mine, but that detail comes from an old caption card and has not been verified. Davy lamps, devised by Humphry Davy in 1815, contained the flame behind a wire gauze, and by the early 1900s they were standard equipment in many mines. The print is dated around 1906, and its caption card credits C.W.J. Harris with the copyright.

Created / publishedc1906.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto copyrighted by C.W.J. Harris. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Lamps; Mines--Coal.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,062 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-143477

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