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...

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Archive & Special Collections CWM/LMS/04/10/06/086 Open

Order number: CWM/LMS/Africa/Photographs/Box 8
Date(s) of creation: c.1930 - c.1950
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.04.10.06.086
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/Africa/Photographs/Box 8
callnumber CWM/LMS/04/10/06/086
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/04/10/06/086
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/04/10/06/086
prefix_number 086
title Miners and mining in the Copperbelt province
scb_date_creation c.1930 - c.1950
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 44 black and white prints and 1 hand-written note
format Archive
description 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.
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright probably held by Council for World Mission or 20th Century Fox Films
scb_file_number 86
scb_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.
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0004.0010.0006.00086

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