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Springhill Mining Disasters - 1891, 1956 and 1958

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Photograph of a row of three buildings equipped with large smokestacks, number 1 slope, Springhill mine, Nova Scotia, 1897

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Surface buildings, no. 1 slope, Springhill mine, Nova Scotia, 1897

Photograph of buildings, some equipped with large smokestacks, number 2 slope, Springhill mine, Nova Scotia, 1897

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Surface buildings, no. 2 slope, Springhill mine, Nova Scotia, 1897

Photograph of buildings, some equipped with large smokestacks, number 3 slope, Springhill mine, Nova Scotia, 1897

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Surface buildings, no. 3 slope, Springhill mine, Nova Scotia, 1897

Photograph of miners Bill Miller and Don Ferguson, their faces black with coal dust, after surviving the mine disaster, 1958

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Bill Miller (left) and Don Ferguson, survivors of the mine disaster, after coming out of the mine at Springhill, Nova Scotia, 1958

Photograph providing a view of Springhill, Nova Scotia, from the south, 1923

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Springhill, Nova Scotia, from the south, 1923

Photograph of a statue of a miner, 1894. The miner is standing with one hand resting on a pick and the other hand at his belt, from which is clipped a lantern

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"The Miner", a monument to those who lost their lives in the 1891 explosion

 
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