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Aberfan Coal Slip Disaster. Two surviving children stand at the top of the hill overlooking the miners digging to find children still buried in the slag

HURN, David

© David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

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Full title: Aberfan Coal Slip Disaster. Two surviving children stand at the top of the hill overlooking the miners digging to find children still buried in the slag. Over one hundred children in the apparent safety of their school were buried under the waste of a sliding coal tip.

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Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 57497

Creation/Production

HURN, David

Date: 1966

Acquisition

Gift, 25/4/2017

Donated by David Hurn, 2017

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Techniques

gelatin silver print

Material

Photographic paper

Location

Gallery 15

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