Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Rhondda, photograph

Muspratt Dunman, Helen (Photographer)

Unemployed miner in the Rhondda picking coal on a slag heap. Print mounted on card.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

1999.16/7

Historical Associations

Association Type: Place name
Date: 1937
Place: Rhondda Valley

Creation/Production

In 1936 Helen Muspratt Dunman visited the Soviet Union and photographed the peasants and farmers as she travelled down the Volga. On her return she became a member of the Communist Party and continued her documentary photography in 1937 when she visited the Rhondda Valley in south Wales capturing the unemployed miners in their local communities.
Role: Photographer
Period: 1937

Acquisition

donation, 28/1/1999

Measurements

Length (mm): 366
Width (mm): 299

Techniques

Black and white (monochrome photograph)
Photograph

Material

Paper
Card

Classification

employment/unemployment
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