18th century illustration representing minning conditions: darkness, awkward digging, cramped spaces, etc. Published in "A Diderot Pictorial Encyc

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18th century illustration representing the minning conditions: darkness, awkward digging, cramped spaces, etc. Published in "A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry. Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from "L'encyclopedie, ou Dictionnarie Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers" of Denis Diderot". (Charles Coulston Gillispie, Dover Publications, New York, 1959).

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Size: 5428px × 4440px
Location: France
Photo credit: © Les Archives Digitales / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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