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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

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.

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
Image: © David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 57497

Creation/Production

HURN David
Date: 1966

Acquisition

Gift, 25/4/2017
Donated by David Hurn, 2017

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Techniques

gelatin silver print

Material

Photographic paper

Location

Gallery 15

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Ffotograff | Photograph Gweithiau ar bapur | Works on paper Celf Gain | Fine Art 22_CADP_Jan_23 CADP content Plentyn | Child Argyfwng | Emergency Ysgol | School Artistiaid y 21ain ganrif | Active in the 21st Century
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