Miners and mining in the Copperbelt province
Prints have the letters "c" and numbers on their backs. Groups include: workers on and off duty; boy workers; warriors in traditional dress. Activities include: repairing a bicycle; Saturday morning food queue; changing shifts at Mindolo; listening to a lecture; loading ingots of copper; quarrying n...
| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/Africa/Photographs/Box 8 |
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| Date(s) of creation: |
c.1930 - c.1950 |
| Level: |
File |
| Format: | Archive |
| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/Africa/Photographs/Box 8 |
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| Summary: |
Prints have the letters "c" and numbers on their backs. Groups include: workers on and off duty; boy workers; warriors in traditional dress. Activities include: repairing a bicycle; Saturday morning food queue; changing shifts at Mindolo; listening to a lecture; loading ingots of copper; quarrying near No.1 shaft; pouring reverb foundations; charging holding furnace; building a kiln; excavating for a conveyer; ship-building. Other places or buildings include: the electric plant; the main shaft, Mufulira; a "witchcraft shop", Mindolo; Symons Plant, smelter, converter aisle, blast furnace, single quarters, brickyard, ?pug mill, and clay pits, "native food issuing store at compound", recruit camp, coal pulverising plant, concentrator floatation bay, Tailings Dam, and power house, Roan Antelope Copper Mines Limited. Also includes: a mural; cooking utensils; diamond drill core; dorr bowl classifiers. Prints received from individuals including: [Richard] Moore. |
| Extent: |
44 black and white prints and 1 hand-written note |
| Access status: |
Open |
| Copyright: | Copyright probably held by Council for World Mission or 20th Century Fox Films |
| File number: |
86 |
| Copies: | Duplicates of electric plant, miners, and boy workers. Many of the photographs also feature in file 88, prints for a slide show entitled Searchlight on the Copperbelt. |
| Format: | Archive |