The Cost of Coal': A miner's wife and a female companion mourning the loss of her husband while the two children play happily, oblivious of the tragedy. Illustration by Charles Oliver Murray (1842-1924) from 'The Quiver' (London, 1876).

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The Cost of Coal': A miner's wife and a female companion mourning the loss of her husband while the two children play happily, oblivious of the tragedy. Illustration by Charles Oliver Murray (1842-1924) from 'The Quiver' (London, 1876).

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