A Difference of Opinion

A Difference of Opinion. The Graphic 28 September 1878: 309. Source: Internet Archive web version of a copy in the University of Illinois Library. Click on image to enlarge it

“The collier is here disputing with the underlooker of the mine regarding the amount of work which he has done in the past fortnight, the officer having visited his working to take the measurement. On the left of the sketch is a ‘brattice cloth’ by means of which the ventilation of the working is effected, the air travelling inwards along one side of it, and returning along the other, where the rails are seen” (319).

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Bibliography

Work at a Coal Mine, II.” The Graphic (28 September 1878): 309. Internet Archive online version of a copy in the Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana. Web. 25 July 2021.


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