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Roger-Viollet | 194056 | Miners. Leaving the well, inspectors' watch. Compagnie des Houillères de Montrambert et de la Béraudière. Saint-Etienne (France), 1931. Photograph by François Kollar (1904-1979). Paris, Bibliothèque Forney. | © François Kollar / Bibliothèque Forney / Roger-Viollet
34579-5 DG
Miners. Leaving the well, inspectors' watch. Compagnie des Houillères de Montrambert et de la [...]
Roger-Viollet | 508711 | The electric engine replaces the steam engine, in 1945. | © LAPI / Roger-Viollet
1908-7 DG
The electric engine replaces the steam engine, in 1945.
 
Roger-Viollet | 599680 | Miners. Installation of dynamite. Mining company: Compagnie des Houillères de Montrambert et de la Béraudière. Saint-Etienne (France), 1931-1934. Photograph by François Kollar (1904-1979). Paris, Bibliothèque Forney. | © François Kollar / Bibliothèque Forney / Roger-Viollet
41505-11 DG
Miners. Installation of dynamite. Mining company: Compagnie des Houillères de Montrambert et de la [...]
Roger-Viollet | 634078 | Miners. Hammer drill extraction. Mining company : Société houillère de Sarre et Moselle. Merlebach and Carling (France), 1931-1934. Photograph by François Kollar (1904-1979). Paris, Bibliothèque Forney. | © François Kollar / Bibliothèque Forney / Roger-Viollet
47775-4 DG
Miners. Hammer drill extraction. Mining company : Société houillère de Sarre et Moselle. Merlebach [...]
Roger-Viollet | 925173 | Paris, banks of the Seine. Coalmen.1908. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
5542-5 DG
Paris, banks of the Seine. Coalmen.1908.
 
Roger-Viollet | 609354 | Employee from a mining company (Compagnie des Houillères de Montrambert et de la Béraudière). Saint-Etienne (France), 1931-1934. Photograph by François Kollar (1904-1979). Paris, Bibliothèque Forney. | © François Kollar / Bibliothèque Forney / Roger-Viollet
41169-12 DG
Employee from a mining company (Compagnie des Houillères de Montrambert et de la Béraudière). [...]
Roger-Viollet | 920842 | Miners in the Pas-de-Calais (France). Woman showering her husband after work, circa 1920. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
10093-13 DG
Miners in the Pas-de-Calais (France). Woman showering her husband after work, circa 1920.
Roger-Viollet | 344936 | North-African miner in the Pas-de-Calais (France). | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
19464-10 DG
North-African miner in the Pas-de-Calais (France).
Roger-Viollet | 960946 | Young miner. France, around 1900. | © Neurdein / Roger-Viollet
2465-15 DG
Young miner. France, around 1900.
Roger-Viollet | 803823 | Miners. Arm pushed wagon. Mining company: Société houillère de Sarre et Moselle. Merlebach and Carling (France), 1931-1934. Photograph by François Kollar (1904-1979). Paris, Bibliothèque Forney. | © François Kollar / Bibliothèque Forney / Roger-Viollet
47775-6 DG
Miners. Arm pushed wagon. Mining company: Société houillère de Sarre et Moselle. Merlebach and [...]
Roger-Viollet | 923063 | Miners waiting to go down in the mine shaft. Mines de la Loire company. Saint-Etienne (France), about 1910. | © CAP / Roger-Viollet
1982-1 DG
Miners waiting to go down in the mine shaft. Mines de la Loire company. Saint-Etienne (France), [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 753388 | Miners on strike in Lens (Pas-de-Calais). Avril-May 1906. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
3891-2 DG
Miners on strike in Lens (Pas-de-Calais). Avril-May 1906.
 
Roger-Viollet | 1037053 | A miner getting washed. France, around 1900. | © Albert Harlingue / Roger-Viollet
574-12 DG
A miner getting washed. France, around 1900.
 
Roger-Viollet | 609746 | Miners in a café in the North of France. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
2885-11 DG
Miners in a café in the North of France.
 
Roger-Viollet | 710652 | Miners. Cleaning the lamps. Mining company: Compagnie des Houillères de Montrambert et de la Béraudière. Saint-Etienne (France), 1931-1934. Photograph by François Kollar (1904-1979). Paris, Bibliothèque Forney. | © François Kollar / Bibliothèque Forney / Roger-Viollet
41171-9 DG
Miners. Cleaning the lamps. Mining company: Compagnie des Houillères de Montrambert et de la [...]
Roger-Viollet | 563465 | Miners. Miners posing before going up. Lens (France). Company: Société des mines de Lens. 1931-1934. Photograph by François Kollar (1904-1979). Paris, Bibliothèque Forney. | © François Kollar / Bibliothèque Forney / Roger-Viollet
41160-10 DG
Miners. Miners posing before going up. Lens (France). Company: Société des mines de Lens. [...]
Roger-Viollet | 830634 | Miners. Locker rooms, at the washbasins. Mining company: Compagnie des Houillères de Montrambert et de la Béraudière. Saint-Etienne (France), 1931-1934. Photograph by François Kollar (1904-1979). Paris, Bibliothèque Forney. | © François Kollar / Bibliothèque Forney / Roger-Viollet
41171-7 DG
Miners. Locker rooms, at the washbasins. Mining company: Compagnie des Houillères de Montrambert et [...]
Roger-Viollet | 537613 | Miners. A family of miners. Company: Société des mines de Lens. 1931-1934. Lens (France). Photograph by François Kollar (1904-1979). Paris, Bibliothèque Forney. | © François Kollar / Bibliothèque Forney / Roger-Viollet
41161-7 DG
Miners. A family of miners. Company: Société des mines de Lens. 1931-1934. Lens (France). [...]
Roger-Viollet | 296463 | Miners in the mine of Merlebach. Freyming-Merlebach (France), 1958. Photograph by Jean Marquis (1926-2019). | © Jean Marquis / Roger-Viollet
77369-26 DG
Miners in the mine of Merlebach. Freyming-Merlebach (France), 1958. Photograph by Jean Marquis [...]
Roger-Viollet | 546951 | Horse working in an English mine, circa 1920. | © Maurice-Louis Branger / Roger-Viollet
15610-1 DG
Horse working in an English mine, circa 1920.
Roger-Viollet | 350440 | Miners. The miner and his children. Waziers (France). Aniche mines company, 1931. Photograph by François Kollar (1904-1979). Paris, Bibliothèque Forney. | © François Kollar / Bibliothèque Forney / Roger-Viollet
34556-1 DG
Miners. The miner and his children. Waziers (France). Aniche mines company, 1931. Photograph by [...]
Roger-Viollet | 847134 | Lamp shop. Bruay en Artois mine (France), circa 1910. | © Collection Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
88750-3 DG
Lamp shop. Bruay en Artois mine (France), circa 1910.
Roger-Viollet | 223012 | Miners in working clothes. Bruay-en-Artois (France), circa 1900. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
4051-2 DG
Miners in working clothes. Bruay-en-Artois (France), circa 1900.
Roger-Viollet | 324488 | Miners. Sorters. Mining company: Compagnie des Houillères de Montrambert et de la Béraudière. Saint-Etienne (France), 1931-1934. Photograph by François Kollar (1904-1979). Paris, Bibliothèque Forney. | © François Kollar / Bibliothèque Forney / Roger-Viollet
41171-1 DG
Miners. Sorters. Mining company: Compagnie des Houillères de Montrambert et de la Béraudière. [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1283726 | Railwaymen strike : the resupplying service at the Gare des Batignolles train station. Paris (17th arrondissement), on March 1st, 1920. Photograph from the collections of the newspaper  Excelsior . | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
190489-10 DG
Railwaymen strike : the resupplying service at the Gare des Batignolles train station. Paris (17th [...]
Roger-Viollet | 923875 | Coal mines worker in Lens, France. 1906. | © Collection Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
88750-1 DG
Coal mines worker in Lens, France. 1906.
 
Roger-Viollet | 628872 | Miners. Miner giving his lamp back. Mining company: Compagnie des Houillères de Montrambert et de la Béraudière. Saint-Etienne (France), 1931-1934. Photograph by François Kollar (1904-1979). Paris, Bibliothèque Forney. | © François Kollar / Bibliothèque Forney / Roger-Viollet
41451-4 DG
Miners. Miner giving his lamp back. Mining company: Compagnie des Houillères de Montrambert et de [...]
Roger-Viollet | 425009 | Miners in the mine of Merlebach. Freyming-Merlebach (France), 1958. Photograph by Jean Marquis (1926-2019). | © Jean Marquis / Roger-Viollet
77369-27 DG
Miners in the mine of Merlebach. Freyming-Merlebach (France), 1958. Photograph by Jean Marquis [...]
Roger-Viollet | 478925 | Miners. A miner taking his lamp. Mining company: Compagnie des Houillères de Montrambert et de la Béraudière. Saint-Etienne (France), 1931-1934. Photograph by François Kollar (1904-1979). Paris, Bibliothèque Forney. | © François Kollar / Bibliothèque Forney / Roger-Viollet
41419-13 DG
Miners. A miner taking his lamp. Mining company: Compagnie des Houillères de Montrambert et de la [...]
Roger-Viollet | 404523 | Miners. Descent of brushers in the mineshaft. Company: Société houillère de Sarre et Moselle. 1931-1934. Merlebach et Carling (France). Photograph by François Kollar (1904-1979). Paris, Bibliothèque Forney. | © François Kollar / Bibliothèque Forney / Roger-Viollet
41161-2 DG
Miners. Descent of brushers in the mineshaft. Company: Société houillère de Sarre et Moselle. [...]
Roger-Viollet | 389471 | Construction of locomotives. Checking the watertightness of the steam piping. England, 1946. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
25798-14 DG
Construction of locomotives. Checking the watertightness of the steam piping. England, 1946.
 
Roger-Viollet | 595600 | Miners. Construction of a new exploratory drift. Mining company: Compagnie des Houillères de Montrambert et de la Béraudière. Saint-Etienne (France), 1931-1934. Photograph by François Kollar (1904-1979). Paris, Bibliothèque Forney. | © François Kollar / Bibliothèque Forney / Roger-Viollet
47775-15 DG
Miners. Construction of a new exploratory drift. Mining company: Compagnie des Houillères de [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1057624 | Miner driving an extractor. | © Laure Albin Guillot / Roger-Viollet
2507-15 DG
Miner driving an extractor.
Roger-Viollet | 484234 | Lowering cage for miners in the Rünholtz well in coal mines in Graissessac (France). 1925. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
3779-12 DG
Lowering cage for miners in the Rünholtz well in coal mines in Graissessac (France). 1925.
Roger-Viollet | 574065 | Coal extraction in the Liévin mines (Pas-de-Calais, France). | © Albert Harlingue / Roger-Viollet
2347-13 DG
Coal extraction in the Liévin mines (Pas-de-Calais, France).
Roger-Viollet | 806585 | Coke oven at the mine of Merlebach (France), 1958. Photograph by Jean Marquis (1926-2019). | © Jean Marquis / Roger-Viollet
77369-28 DG
Coke oven at the mine of Merlebach (France), 1958. Photograph by Jean Marquis (1926-2019).
Roger-Viollet | 890320 | Algerian migrant workers in charge of unloading coal dust. Drancy (France), 1970. Photograph by Léon Claude Vénézia (1941-2013). | © Léon Claude Vénézia / Roger-Viollet
77974-2 DG
Algerian migrant workers in charge of unloading coal dust. Drancy (France), 1970. Photograph by [...]
Roger-Viollet | 765449 | Children working in mines in Bruay-en-Artois (Pas-de-Calais, France), early 20th century. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
192-2 DG
Children working in mines in Bruay-en-Artois (Pas-de-Calais, France), early 20th century.
Roger-Viollet | 272846 | Miners. Miner grooming the horses at the bottom of the mine. Company: Société minière de Lens. 1931-1934. Lens (France). Photograph by François Kollar (1904-1979). Paris, Bibliothèque Forney. | © François Kollar / Bibliothèque Forney / Roger-Viollet
41161-18 DG
Miners. Miner grooming the horses at the bottom of the mine. Company: Société minière de Lens. [...]
Roger-Viollet | 450179 | Algerian migrant worker in charge of unloading coal dust. Drancy (France), April 1970. Photograph by Léon Claude Vénézia (1941-2013). | © Léon Claude Vénézia / Roger-Viollet
78624-13 DG
Algerian migrant worker in charge of unloading coal dust. Drancy (France), April 1970. Photograph [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 718602 | Along the river Deûle. Locomotive. Lille (France), 1953. Photograph by Jean Marquis (1926-2019). | © Jean Marquis / Roger-Viollet
77370-21 DG
Along the river Deûle. Locomotive. Lille (France), 1953. Photograph by Jean Marquis (1926-2019).
Roger-Viollet | 512981 | Man delivering coal with a handcart, rue du Faubourg du Temple. Paris (10th arrondissement), 1972. Photograph by Léon Claude Vénézia (1941-2013). | © Léon Claude Vénézia / Roger-Viollet
78634-10 DG
Man delivering coal with a handcart, rue du Faubourg du Temple. Paris (10th arrondissement), 1972. [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1031890 | Bargees, ferrymen. Tug hold and boiler room. Paris, 1931-1934. Photograph by François Kollar (1904-1979). Paris, Bibliothèque Forney. | © François Kollar / Bibliothèque Forney / Roger-Viollet
41326-14 DG
Bargees, ferrymen. Tug hold and boiler room. Paris, 1931-1934. Photograph by François Kollar [...]
Roger-Viollet | 792054 | Women sorting out and filling the trucks in a coal mine. Lens (Pas-de-Calais, France). | © LAPI / Roger-Viollet
5586-1 DG
Women sorting out and filling the trucks in a coal mine. Lens (Pas-de-Calais, France).
Roger-Viollet | 878967 | World War One. Coal for sale at the L'Egalitaire cooperative, rue Sambre-et-Meuse. Paris, on February 9, 1917. Photograph published in the newspaper  Excelsior , on February 10, 1917. | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
72692-26 DG
World War One. Coal for sale at the L'Egalitaire cooperative, rue Sambre-et-Meuse. Paris, on [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 1002369 | Loading coal trains at the Maurits coking plant. Netherlands. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
14358-6 DG
Loading coal trains at the Maurits coking plant. Netherlands.
 
Roger-Viollet | 490879 | Women pushing carts up from the mine. Bruay-en-Artois (France), circa 1910. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
5590-15 DG
Women pushing carts up from the mine. Bruay-en-Artois (France), circa 1910.
Roger-Viollet | 574191 | Couville-sur-Eure (France). Coal merchant. | © CAP / Roger-Viollet
14777-3 DG
Couville-sur-Eure (France). Coal merchant.
 
Roger-Viollet | 363333 | Mining accident of November 25, 1912. Transport of the corpses of miners. Saint-Martin-de-Valgalgues (France), 1912. | © Maurice-Louis Branger / Roger-Viollet
72804-11 DG
Mining accident of November 25, 1912. Transport of the corpses of miners. [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 616288 | River port. Saint-Denis, circa 1900. | © CAP / Roger-Viollet
56069-22 DG
River port. Saint-Denis, circa 1900.