Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain
Women in Collieries

scan0051 Pit brow girls Wigan colliery (1898)

Click to see Margaret Hunter
Pit woman: 1862

scan0003 Margaret Hunter, pitwoman, 1862

Click to see Wigan colliery girl
Pictorial World: 1874

scan0026 Wigan colliery girl (Pictorial World) 1874

Click to see Wigan colliery women
at the shoots: 1874

scan0036 Wigan collieries women at the shoots 1874

Click to see Mesnes colliery girl
Pictorial World: 1874

scan0034 Mesnes colliery girl (Pictorial World) 1874

Click to see women and girls
filling trucks (Wigan): 1874

scan0037 women and girls filling trucks Wigan 1874

Click to see women brick workers: 1905

scan0043 women brick workers 1905

Click to see Lancashire Pit-brow women
May 28, 1887

scan0044 Lancashire Pit-Brow Women 5-28-1887

Click to see Blue Fly Collery
Pit bank wenches (Wednesbury): c. 1890

scan0049 Blue Fly Pit Pit-bank wenches Wednesbury (c. 1890)

Click to see Jaan Brahn (Jane Brown)
Pit brow girl

scan0053 Jaan Brahn (Jane Brown) Pit brow girl

Click to see Jane Horton (19 years old)
Kirkless Hall Pits (Wigan): August 1863

scan0054 Jane Horton, aged 19 Kirkless Hall Pits Wigan (August 1863)

Click to see Pit brow girls: 1868

scan0055 Pit brow girls (1868)

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Platt Ridge, Wigan: 1893

scan0056 Pit brow girls Platt Ridge (Wigan) 1893

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Shevington: 1864

scan0061 Pit brow girl Shevington (1864)

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Rose Bridge Pits, Wigan: 1865

scan0058 Pit brow girls Rose Bridge Pits (Wigan) 1865

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Wigan: 1867

scan0062 Pit brow girl Wigan (1867)

Click to see a female collier
Rose Bridge Pits: 1869

scan0063 female collier Rose Bridge Pits 1869

Click to see Pit girl with oil lamp
Wigan: 1869

scan0064 Pit girl with oil lamp Wigan (1869)

Click to see Pit brow girl
Wigan: 1867

scan0065 Pit brow girl Wigan 1867

Click to see Pit brow woman
Wigan: 1869

scan0066 Miner and Pit Brow Woman Wigan 1869

Click to see Pit brow girls: 1868

scan0067 Pit brow girls (1868)

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Wigan: 1874

scan0068 Pit brow girls Wigan 1874

Click to see Pit brow girls
1865-1873

scan0069 Pit brow girls 1865-1873

Click to see Tip girls
South Wales: 1865

scan0071 South Wales tip girls (1865)

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South Wales: 1865

scan0073 South Wales tip girls (1865)

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South Wales: 1865

scan0075 South Wales tip girls (1865)

Click to see Ellen Grounds (filler)
17 years old: 1866

scan0059 Ellen Grounds Filler aged 17 (1866)

Click to see young woman
and girl colliers: 1863-1868

DSC0X1598 labor wears a lovely face

Click to see Wigan pit brow girls
1867-1878

DSC0X1601 Wigan pit brow girls 1867-78

Click to see Wigan pit brow girls

DSC0X1600 Wigan pit brow girls

Click to see a Woman Collier

scan0027 Woman Collier

Click to see Welsh
pit brow girls

scan0074 Welsh pit brow girls 3

Click to see a Welsh pit girl
at Tredegar (circa 1865)

DSC0X1604 Tredegar c 1865

Click to see four-horse
Winding-gin

Four-horse Winding Gin (coal)

Click to see Pithead
with Waggonway (North-east)

Pithead in Northeast with Waggonway

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Pithead (coal)

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