COLLECTION NAME:
Colorado Coal Project
Collection Name:
Colorado Coal Project
Title:
A photography studio in Trinidad
Creator:
Margolis, Eric, 1947-
Creator:
McMahan, Ronald L.
Subject:
Coal mines and mining
Subject:
Coal Strike (Colorado : 1913-1914)
Subject:
Trinidad (Colo.)--History
Subject:
Documentary photography--United States--History--20th century
Subject:
Coal Strike (Colorado : 1913-1914)
Subject:
Coal miners--Colorado--History--20th century
Subject:
Interviews
Description:
Glenn Aultman shows interviewers in the photography studio which his father started in Trinidad in 1901. Much of the original equipment is still operational. He, a photographer from 1925 on himself, discusses photographic processes (e.g., a panoramic circuit camera). When questioned, he reminisces about life in Trinidad, the bustling city, which was nearly deserted after the dust bowl years of the early thirties. At that time, a number of mines closed due to decreasing demand for coal. He remembers how miners had to purchase everything from the company store using scrip, which did not sit well with the miners nor the retailers of Trinidad. He recalls the Ludlow strike and how people in Trinidad lived in fear of violence from both the angry miners and the state militia. He believes the strike was ended without much won because the miners could not make it through another winter. His father's negatives are with the State Historical Society in Denver.
Description Type:
summary
Publisher:
University of Colorado Boulder Archives
Contributor:
Aultman, Glenn R., 1904-2000
Date:
1976
Type:
Text
Format:
application/pdf
Identifier:
narv_coloradoCoal_transAultman.pdf
Identifier ARK:
Language:
English
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Coverage (Spatial):
Colorado (United States, North America) (first order administrative divisions)
Coverage (Temporal):
1900/1970
Coverage (Spatial):
Ludlow (Las Animas, Colorado, United States, North America) (populated place)
Coverage (Spatial):
Trinidad (Las Animas, Colorado, United States, North America) (populated place)
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