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| Introduction |
| 1 | Photography and mining |
| 2 | Mining towns, infrastructure and impact |
| 3 | Miners |
| 4 | Introduction to oil and gas extraction |
| Gold Rush |
| 5 | Californian Gold Rush (1848-1855) |
| 6 | Alaskan Gold Rush (1896-1899) |
| Mining in Bolivia |
| 7 | Mining in Bolivia (1870s-1930s) |
| Photographers |
| 8 | Walter Woodbury: Australian goldfields (1850s) |
| 9 | Antoine Fauchery & Richard Daintree: Australia: Goldfields in Victoria (1858) |
| 10 | Lufkin: Lufkin's Photographic Views - Oil Regions of Pennsylvania |
| 11 | West & Waddell: Stereoscopic views of the Pennsylvania Oil Regions. (1860-1890) |
| 12 | Henry Moulton: Rays of Sunlight from South America (1865) |
| 13 | Timothy O'Sullivan: The mines of Nevada (ca. 1868) |
| 14 | Thomas Houseworth & Co: Nevada |
| 15 | South Africa: Diamond mining areas around Kimberley and Griqualand-West |
| 16 | Unidentified photographer: South African Gold Mining - Durban Roddepoort Deep Mine |
| 17 | W. Kochne & Co.: Oilfields, Azerbaijan (ca 1883) |
| 18 | Luis Boudat Ducollier: Album de las Salitreras de Tarapaca (1889) |
| 19 | Roberto M. Gerstmann: Mining in Bolivia |
| 20 | Carleton Eugene Watkins: Mining Claims, Butte County, Cal. |
| 21 | J.C. Burrow: Mongst Mines and Miners; or Underground scenes by flash-light (1893) |
| 22 | Gustave Marissiaux: La Houillère (1904-1905) |
| 23 | Lewis W. Hine: Coal mines |
| 24 | Unidentified photographer: Im Pütt (1953) |
| 25 | Robert Yarnall Ritchie: Commercial Modernist |
| 26 | Bill Brandt: North |
| 27 | Chris Killip: Seacoal (1983-1984) |
| 28 | Carl Uytterhaegen: Cité3 |
| 29 | Edward Burtynsky: Quarries |
