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8.00" x 6.00"
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2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
13.50" x 11.50"
Coal Miners With A Canary Framed Print
by Miriam And Ira D. Wallach Division Of Art, Prints And Photographs/new York Public Library
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Coal Miners With A Canary framed print by Miriam And Ira D. Wallach Division Of Art, Prints And Photographs/new York Public Library. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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Coal miners with a caged canary. Canaries were used in coal mining as an early warning system for toxic gases such as carbon monoxide, methane or... more
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Artist's Description
Coal miners with a caged canary. Canaries were used in coal mining as an early warning system for toxic gases such as carbon monoxide, methane or carbon dioxide. These gases would affect the bird before the miners, and signs of distress in the bird indicated to the miners that conditions were unsafe. The idea of placing a canary or other warm-blooded animal in a mine to detect carbon monoxide was first proposed by John Scott Haldane. The use of miners' canaries in British mines continued from 1911 until 1986 when they were replaced by electronic gas detectors. This photograph is from an archive of images dating from the 1860s to the 1920s, collected for 'The Pageant of America: A Pictorial History of the United States' (1925-1929).
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