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Senghenydd pit disaster, 1913, film negative
Cornwell, John (Mr) (John Cornwell was a freelance photographer who took many photographs of collieries, mostly in south Wales and the English Midlands, both underground and on the surface, during the 1970s and early 1980s. He perfected a method of underground photography using the standard colliery lighting and was able to photograph coal faces, roadways, shafts and equipment with amazing clarity. In addition to photographing working mines he also recorded abandoned mine workings, above and below ground.
John Cornwell was also well respected in the broader field of industrial archaeology. He published a number of books on Welsh and English collieries.
The copyright of his south Wales images are now owned by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales.)
Black and white film negative of a photograph showing two men (rescuers), each with early electric safety handlamps, seen holding a cage containing the "canary that was carried down the mine to test the air" after the Universal Colliery explosion at Senghenydd on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913.
Mr Charles Adams (ref. P2010.5) is on the left, and the man on the right is his brother Albert Adams.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
2014.45/191
Historical Associations
Association Type: colliery
Date: 14/10/1913
Creation/Production
Cornwell, John (Mr)
unknown
Acquisition
Donation, 13/6/2014
Measurements
Length
(mm): 125
Width
(mm): 100
Techniques
film negative (black & white)
film negative
negative
Material
film (photographic)
Location
In store
Classification
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