From 1850 until around 1915, miner’s headgear generally consisted of cloth or canvas hats with leather brims and metal lamp brackets on the forehead that allowed them to hang a source of light on the ...

Six tourists wearing hard hats and heavy overalls sit ... tourists — it cost 13 Bolivianos (just under $2). The Bolivian mining city of Potosí is the only place in the world where members ...

Nonetheless, the 400-seat, wood and canvas house was filled with smelly miners in drenched overcoats and felt hats. The miners paid $5 (about $120 in 2005 dollars) each to watch the first English ...

Prior to the 1920s, miners wore a soft cap made of cloth or canvas with a leather brim and lamp bracket to hold their light. But in 1919, Edward D. Bullard of San Francisco, California developed the ...