OVER 24000 LANTERN SLIDE PHOTOGRAPHS IN ONE ARCHIVE. people, places and moments that history nearly lost.
COLLECTION: WORKING LIVES AND SOCIAL HISTORY
The people who built the Victorian and Edwardian world rarely appeared in official portraits.
Here they are anyway — at the forge, on the farm, in the mill, on the docks. Heavy industry, rural crafts, domestic service, children at work and at play. These are ordinary lives in extraordinary detail.
East Midlands coal miner and his family.
Female coal miners in England, 1880s.