Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Dinorwig slate quarry, photograph

unknown (Photographer)

Photograph on a postcard showing three quarrymen demonstrating the skill of slate splitting and dressing against a background of about 27 quarrymen. Said to have been taken somewhere at Dinorwig Quarry during the 1920s.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

2002.53/21

Historical Associations

Association Type: Slate quarries
Date: 1920s
Place: Dinorwic slate quarries

Creation/Production

Role: Photographer
Period: 1920s

Acquisition

donation, 2/4/2002

Measurements

Length (mm): 89
Width (mm): 137

Techniques

Sepia (monochrome photograph)
Photograph

Material

Card
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