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Image Not Available for Prisoners work in the salt mines 100 metres underground.
Prisoners work in the salt mines 100 metres underground.
Image Not Available for Prisoners work in the salt mines 100 metres underground.

Prisoners work in the salt mines 100 metres underground.

Creator Presse-Photo
Date1930s
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 17.4 x 19.5 cm (6 7/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous Gift, 2002
Category
  • Photographs
Object number2002/8339
LocationNot currently on display

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Image Not Available for Looking like a fantastic scene from a film, prisoners work in the salt mines on day parole.
Looking like a fantastic scene from a film, prisoners work in the salt mines on day parole.
Presse-Photo
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for Prisoners work in the salt mines under the watchful eyes of local officials
Prisoners work in the salt mines under the watchful eyes of local officials
Presse-Photo
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for Prisoners must carry the salt bars themselves as the underground passages are too narrow for transport cars.
Prisoners must carry the salt bars themselves as the underground passages are too narrow for transport cars.
Presse-Photo
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for In a wild mountainous region there lies an entrance to a salt mine which is only occupied by prisoners.
In a wild mountainous region there lies an entrance to a salt mine which is only occupied by prisoners.
Presse-Photo
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for An engineer checks the roof of the Zero Chamber carved out of salt rock 365 metres underground, a container for the Gnome nuclear test explosion at New Mexico, 10 December 1961
An engineer checks the roof of the Zero Chamber carved out of salt rock 365 metres underground, a container for the Gnome nuclear test explosion at New Mexico, 10 December 1961
United States Information Services
Photograph
Image Not Available for The sulphur mines at Caltanisetta on the island of Sicily do not look externally like mines, but rather like brick distilleries.
The sulphur mines at Caltanisetta on the island of Sicily do not look externally like mines, but rather like brick distilleries.
Presse-Photo
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for View over a crater lake which lies like a dark eye in the scenery of in Germany taken from an air balloon 3,000 metres high.
View over a crater lake which lies like a dark eye in the scenery of in Germany taken from an air balloon 3,000 metres high.
Presse-Photo
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for Travelling along the highway, one can see the runway from the airport only a few hundred metres away.
Travelling along the highway, one can see the runway from the airport only a few hundred metres away.
Presse-Photo
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for Lessons on machine repair are learned in the repair workshop of the pit, 600 metres underground.
Lessons on machine repair are learned in the repair workshop of the pit, 600 metres underground.
Junghans
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for A railway station 400 metres underground. Electric railroad engines carry the potash trains to the assembly points.
A railway station 400 metres underground. Electric railroad engines carry the potash trains to the assembly points.
Junghans
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for The upper most point of the tower of the monastery rises more than 100 metres above the church into the sky.
The upper most point of the tower of the monastery rises more than 100 metres above the church into the sky.
P. Roth
December 17 1940
Photograph
Image Not Available for Changes of shift at the salt mines.
Changes of shift at the salt mines.
Junghans
1930s
Photograph
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