Wieliczka Salt Mine

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View of of the underground work in the Wieliczka Salt Mine, Galicia.

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Cross-section view of three levels of the Wieliczka Salt Mine showing a chapel, stables and horses, multiple chambers and passageways with men extracting salt or moving it around in barrels. This illustration was designed after an original artwork by Michał Stachowicz.[1]

The caption reads in the original French: Vue des travaux souterrains dans les mines de sel de Wieliska [sic], en Gallicie.

  1. ^ La Pologne historique, littéraire, monumentale et pittoresque, vol. 3. Collective work compiled by Leonard Chodźko. Paris, 1839-1842, facing p. 135.

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