If you are into Cornish mines and mining pictures, the first one here, from AK Hamilton Jenkin's book on the Camborne and Illogan district, will be familiar as will be the caption.
While scanning some slide the other day I came across a copy of the same photo and noticed something scrawled into the border of the plate. Being written on the Collodion emulsion side, probably whilst still wet, it showed the writing reversed when printed. A quick flip in Photoshop revealed the following caption
'Workers W Frances Mine'
Has this been reproduced anywhere else as South Frances?
Morrison seems to have got it right.
Jenkin's picture
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My copy
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Extract of the border caption
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