Hello.
I am looking for somebody who used to work for
Chatterly Whitfield Mining Museum. If you know
anyone, please let me know his/her contact details.
I have been studying photographs of the British
coal mining in the History of Photography,
particulary historic postcards from early 20th
century. I found a very interesting enlarged and
framed postcard of Hamstead Disaster in the National
Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield.
A curator told me that it was transferred from
Chatterly Whitfield Mining Museum after it had been
closed. I would like to know the context or
background of the framed postcard: where it was
put on, how it worked as a commemorative photograph,
and who made it and kept it if possible.
Any information would be deeply appreciated.
Yukiko
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>At 17:17 23/11/02 +0000, you wrote:
>>Hi Everyone,
>>
>>Does anyone have anecdotal evidence for the closure and the
>>dispersal of the collections from Industrial Museums? Also the
>>sending of museum artefacts to the scrap man. I am particularly
>>interested in the UK context, but would be interested to learn about
>>the problem elsewhere.
>
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>I was working in Staffordshire when Chatterly Whitfield closed, and
>remember that many of the artefacts were sold at auction.
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