EditorialPortugal: An image of Santa Bárbara (Saint Barbara) and her tower from Recolhimento das Órfãs de Nossa Senhora da Esperança (Our Lady of Hope's Gathering of Orphaned Girls), now in the Museu da Misericórdia do Porto, Porto
EditorialA shrine to St. Barbara, patron saint of miners, outside the power plant for the Tamega complex near Ribeira de Pena, Portugal, Aug. 2022 (Matilde Viegas/The New York Times)
EditorialA shrine to St. Barbara, patron saint of miners, outside the power plant for the Tamega complex near Ribeira de Pena, Portugal, Aug. 2022 (Matilde Viegas/The New York Times)
EditorialUnited States. 19th century. Consolidated Virginia mine. Miners go down to the mine. The elevators were covered with metal roofs to protect miners from falling rocks. The candles were the only ilumination. They were consumed daily about five thousand c...
EditorialGary Campbell, a heavy-equipment operator at a coal mine in West Virginia, sits for a portrait in Grant Town, W.Va. on Dec. 2, 2021. (Kristian Thacker/The New York Times)
EditorialGary Campbell, a heavy-equipment operator at a coal mine in West Virginia, sits for a portrait in Grant Town, W.Va. on Dec. 2, 2021. (Kristian Thacker/The New York Times)
EditorialUnited States. 19th century. Consolidated Virginia mine. Miners go down to the mine. The elevators were covered with metal roofs to protect miners from falling rocks. The candles were the only ilumination. They were consumed daily about five thousand c...
Editorial'The City and Waterloo railway : a visit to the works.' Miners and labourers working in a tunnel, preparing the way for the Underground railway. . The Graphic. 16 November 1895. Source: The Graphic 16/11/1895, p. 608.