COLLECTION NAME:
Colorado Coal Project
Record
Collection Name:
Colorado Coal Project
Title:
Coal mining in the Tobasco Mine
Creator:
Margolis, Eric, 1947-
Creator:
McMahan, Ronald L.
Subject:
Coal mines and mining
Subject:
Frederick (Colo.)
Subject:
Coal miners--Personal narratives
Subject:
Coal mine accidents--Colorado--History
Subject:
Interviews
Description:
00:00 -- Setup and chatting; 10:00 -- Pictures and info about sons and daughters; 20:00 -- Setting up, raising shades, etc.; 30:00 -- Looking at coal mining photographs; 40:00 -- How they survived while Genaro was recovering from an injury; 50:00 -- How much coal he dug and loaded, how it got taken out; 55:30 -- End.
Description Type:
Segment Sequence
Description:
This coal miner came to Colorado in 1920 from a small town in Italy, and he worked in the Tobasco mine. His father, too, had worked the coal mines around Trinidad. The interviewers show his panoramic photographs of mining towns and he points out the company store, YMCA, boarding house, mule barn, etc. He talks about his accidents and recounts fatal accidents he witnessed. While recovering from a cracked pelvis for two years, the family survived on credit and the children working. He says he much preferred hand loading coal since there was a variety of digging, loading, checking ceiling structure, and waiting for the coal car to return. With machines, it is a monotonous job all day long. He also describes working with mules and recalls how much he loaded and what he was paid.
Description Type:
summary
Publisher:
University of Colorado Boulder Archives
Contributor:
DeSantis, Rose
Contributor:
DeSantis, Genaro
Date:
1978-01-05
Type:
Moving image
Format:
video/mov
Identifier:
110-DeSantis.mov
Language:
English
Relation:
Title: Life in a Tobasco Mine town
Relation Type:
isPartOf
Relation:
Title: Making sausage and views of Frederick and surroundings
Relation Type:
isPartOf
Coverage (Spatial):
Frederick (Weld, Colorado, United States, North America) (populated place)
Coverage (Temporal):
1902/1950
Coverage (Spatial):
Tabasco (Las Animas, Colorado, United States, North America) (unknown)
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