Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: Bull, John
Event Date: 1950
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.008920

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: Down the Mine – like going on the Tube; handwritten: England / Mining; handwritten: m, [circled]; stamped: CREDIT: / from BLACK STAR, / CLIFFORDS INN. LONDON; handwritten: John Bull; stamped: 11 MAR 1950; stamped: Credit: [star shape] / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK; handwritten: In a high, well-lighted Comrie pit, a diesel engine / hauls trucks heavily laden with coal. “ This is / the new mining - - and it is a revolution.”

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: ENGLAND / INDUSTRY - MINING
Retouching: N