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Topic: Photo ID and date please? I'm so excited about this one!! (Read 423 times)
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PrueM
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Hi Jill 
What a lovely picture! It looks like an Ambrotype (on glass) or a tintype (on metal) - probably the former actually, looking at it more closely. YOu could confirm that with your rellies.
The date could easily be 1860s
It looks like the poor boy was working in the mines - look at his hands, although his face has scrubbed up well, there's no getting the coal dust out of the skin on his hands 
Oh, and the tinting on his cheeks would have been added by the photographer or his assistant, i.e. at the time the photo was produced.
Lucky you!
Prue
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Dave Hall
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I read the link to the "hurriers", I cannot believe how those poor kids lived just over 150 years ago.
Nowadays they would be upset if they had to clean their bedrooms.
How times have changed.
Great picture though.
Dave
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HALL,PITTS, RAISTRICK,BRADLEY,FEATHER,HENDY,RAMSAY,BENTHAM,CARRINGTON,DODGSON,FLUEN,ILEY,CLAPHAM,BOLLARD,WOODYER,WEBB,TURTON,RUDDOCK
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willow154
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Hi,
Yes, his hands say it all, don't they.
I have copy made from an ambrotype, and the eyes lok really staring, but I was told that they had been painted in. I suppose lots of the early photographers were artists and photographers, too.
Kind regards,
Paulene
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Rossdal3
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You're right Dave, they were so much more resilient then, but nothing excuses the use of child labour in that way. Especially when you read that it was only after 1842 that it was made illegal to use children under 10 in this way. The really hard thing for my family to come to terms with was that William Wells, Henrys Dad, was the collier that he was a Hurrier for. I guess it was that or starve - if that's any excuse! No wonder he escaped to the USA for a better life. They called their youngest son, born in South Dakota, Freedom Coultas Wells, which says it all!!!
Jill
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Dave Hall
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Yes Jill, some of my rellies worked in the weaving industry from as little as 9 years old accoring to the census it beggers belief!!
Dave
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HALL,PITTS, RAISTRICK,BRADLEY,FEATHER,HENDY,RAMSAY,BENTHAM,CARRINGTON,DODGSON,FLUEN,ILEY,CLAPHAM,BOLLARD,WOODYER,WEBB,TURTON,RUDDOCK
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moroc
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Rossdal, you should sue Bob Dylan on behalf of your family for stealing Henry's image.
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SteveJW
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"In the census we learned that his occupation was Hurrier in the coal mines. None of us knew what that word meant so I Googled it. The horror of the job left us feeling ill. Here is a URL worth a look for anyone who hasn't heard of what "Hurriers" did in the 1800s."
If you want to know what life was like down the pit visit the National Mining Museum http://www.ncm.org.uk/ and do the underground tour.
Children not old enough / strong enough to haul the carts were employed to open air tight doors, the only light they had was when someone (hurrier) went by with a candle.
There's an exhibit of a miner hewing coal, his wife hauling the coal and young son opening the airtight door
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