GOING TO WORK. The diamond miners are here running on the trolley through the air. This mode of descent is now only employed in what they call the open-working mines. Black and white photograph from the book ' South Africa; its history, heroes and wars ' by William Douglas Mackenzie, and Alfred Stead, Publisher Chicago, Philadelphia : Monarch Book Company in 1890

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Location: South Africa
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