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Collection Name:
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Colorado Coal Project
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Title:
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Coal mining in Weld County (Part 1 of 3)
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Creator:
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Margolis, Eric, 1947-
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Creator URI:
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00101170
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Creator:
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McMahan, Ronald L.
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Creator URI:
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no94033808
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Subject:
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Coal mines and mining
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Subject URI:
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http://id.worldcat.org/fast/865355
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Subject:
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Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969
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Subject URI:
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http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1758648
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Subject:
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Coal miners--Personal narratives
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Subject:
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Retirees
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Subject URI:
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http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1096254
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Subject:
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Interviews
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Subject URI:
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http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423832
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Subject:
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Coal miners--Labor unions--Colorado
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Subject:
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United Mine Workers of America--History--20th century
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Subject:
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Columbine Mine (Weld County, Colo.)
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Subject URI:
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2005004870
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Subject:
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Strip mining--Environmental aspects--United States
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Subject URI:
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010114872
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Subject:
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Yellow dog contract
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Subject URI:
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http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1182650
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Subject:
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Imperial Coal Company
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Description:
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Retired coal miners, Claude and Lawrence Amicarella recount their coal mining days. They talk about working and living conditions and give examples of the prejudice held toward miners during the forties and fifties. They share their views on corrupt United Mine Workers officials, the incompetence of mine superintendents, bad management decisions, e.g. bringing in machinery that was too big for a mine. They believe that a free enterprise system should include the right to form labor unions and that all natural resources should be nationalized. They recall buying a company house, paying the weighman to be accurate, and surviving on low wages by working overtime. By comparison, they say, Western miners were highly mobile, while a sense of being stuck prevailed in the Eastern mining towns. It perplexes them why miners are considered "undesirables" when their lives were hard and their services indispensable.
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Description Type:
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summary
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Description:
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Video begins on pg. 3 of pdf transcript); 10:00 -- Early mining careers of these retired coal miners (pg. 8 of pdf transcript); 10:50 -- Video frozen, but audio continues; 20:00 -- Mechanization of the mines in 1920s, Columbine Mine massacre (pg. 13 of pdf transcript); 24:30 -- Video resumes; 30:00 -- Dangers of mining, environmental impact of negligence, poor mining laws, their involvement in the union (pg. 19 of pdf transcript) 40:00 -- Changes in the U.M.W.A since the 1940s and John L. Lewis (pg. 24 of pdf transcript); 50:00 -- Lack of respect for miners, their role in World War II (pg. 28 of pdf transcript); 60:00 -- Ethnic relations in mining camps, their union activities vs. those of modern miners (pg. 33 of pdf transcript).
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Description Type:
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SegmentSequence
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Publisher:
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University of Colorado Boulder Archives
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Contributor:
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Amicarella, Claude, 1911-1986
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Contributor:
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Amicarella, Lawrence, 1902-1988
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Date:
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1978-02-21
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Type:
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Moving image
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Format:
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video/mov
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Identifier:
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132-Amicarella.mov
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Identifier ARK:
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https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/6c7p8385v4z2
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Language:
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English
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Relation:
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Title: Coal mining in Weld County (Part 1 of 2)
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Relation Type:
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isFormatOf
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Relation href:
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https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/b06x7g98n7wj
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Relation:
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Title: Coal mining in Weld County (Part 2 of 2)
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Relation Type:
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isFormatOf
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Relation href:
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https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/wv3c3d92k911
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Relation:
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Title: Coal mining in Weld County (Part 3 of 3)
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Relation Type:
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isPartOf
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Relation href:
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https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/t51g3224j19w
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Relation:
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Title: Coal mining in Weld County (Part 2 of 3)
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Relation Type:
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isPartOf
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Relation href:
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https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/2s116738r5q0
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Coverage (Spatial):
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Colorado (United States, North America) (first order administrative divisions)
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Coverage (Temporal):
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1920/1978
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Coverage (Spatial):
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Columbine Mine (Weld, Colorado, United States, North America) (mine)
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Coverage (Spatial):
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Eagle Mine (Weld, Colorado, United States, North America) (mine)
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Coverage (Spatial):
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Lincoln Mine (Weld, Colorado, United States, North America) (mine)
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Coverage (Spatial):
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Trinidad (Las Animas, Colorado, United States, North America) (populated place)
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Coverage (Spatial):
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Weld County (Colorado, United States, North America) (civil)
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