Collection Name:
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Colorado Coal Project
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Title:
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Life in a Tobasco Mine town
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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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Coal miners--Health and hygiene--United States
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Subject:
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Quality of life--United States--History
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Subject:
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Frederick (Colo.)
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Subject URI:
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79027734
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Subject:
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Coal miners--Personal narratives
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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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Description:
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A couple describes coal mining life from 1920 on, beginning with Genaro emigrating from Italy to find work in Colorado. The two met at the wedding of their cousins and say life was hard but one gets used to it. He would go to work at 3 AM and load 30 tons of coal per day. She washed clothes in a tub, hauling the water from outdoors, and raised eight children. He came home covered in coal dust and they had no bathtub. The company provided housing, at first doubling them up with another family, and they bought everything from the company store. In the evening he went out to have wine and play cards. They also talk about their present lives, their income, their house, and their adult children. They mention the on-going coal miner strike and how growth might change the town of Frederick, where they now live.
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Description Type:
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summary
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Description:
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00:00 -- Worked as a miner all his life; 10:00 -- Picnics on weekends and holidays; 20:00 -- Social security raises just keep up with rising prices; 30:00 -- They enjoy visiting Trinidad; 40:00 -- Rose was born in Trinidad; 50:00 -- Looking at his mining tools (lamp and pick); 60:00 -- Chatting about the coal mining book; 01:03:00 -- End.
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Description Type:
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Segment Sequence
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Publisher:
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University of Colorado Boulder Archives
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Contributor:
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DeSantis, Rose
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Contributor:
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DeSantis, Genaro
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Date:
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1978-01-05
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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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111-DeSantis.mov
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Identifier ARK:
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https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/5g148215k3dn
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Language:
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English
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Relation:
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Title: Making sausage and views of Frederick and surroundings
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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/p9445h31z8wp
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Relation:
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Title: Coal mining in the Tobasco Mine
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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:/47540/39763q29q2cm
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Coverage (Spatial):
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Frederick (Weld, Colorado, United States, North America) (populated place)
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Coverage (Temporal):
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1920/1978
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Coverage (Spatial):
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Tabasco (Las Animas, Colorado, United States, North America) (unknown)
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Coverage (Spatial):
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Trinidad (Las Animas, Colorado, United States, North America) (populated place)
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