>In addition I would think that many/some of the 19/20th cent. 'high
>quality' photographs of mines and miners would have been reproduced as
>postcards for the 'masses' Especially scenes at and of pit disasters?
>And the well-known photo's of pit brow lasses also come to mind here,
>almost certainly reproduced as postcards surely?
>
>Pete Challis
Yes, you are right.
I think the quality of photographic postcards
is very good. Photographs from newspapers/magazines,
cartes de visite (of pit brow lasses),lantern slides
and surveys were all introduced to mining postcards
production.
Yukiko
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