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Aberfan Coal Slip Disaster. Two surviving children stand at the top of the hill overlooking the miners digging to find children still buried in the slag
Artist: HURN David
Full title: Aberfan Coal Slip Disaster. Two surviving children stand at the top of the hill overlooking the miners digging to find children still buried in the slag. Over one hundred children in the apparent safety of their school were buried under the waste of a sliding coal tip.
Image: © David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum Wales
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 57497
Creation/Production
HURN David
Role: Photographer
Date: 1966
Acquisition
Gift, 25/4/2017
Donated by David Hurn, 2017
Techniques
gelatin silver print
Material
Photographic paper
Location
Gallery 08/Gallery 09
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