Detail View: Colorado Coal Project: Life in a Tobasco Mine town

Collection Name: 
Colorado Coal Project
Title: 
Life in a Tobasco Mine town
Creator: 
Margolis, Eric, 1947-
Creator URI: 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00101170
Creator: 
McMahan, Ronald L.
Creator URI: 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no94033808
Subject: 
Coal mines and mining
Subject URI: 
http://id.worldcat.org/fast/865355
Subject: 
Coal miners--Health and hygiene--United States
Subject: 
Quality of life--United States--History
Subject: 
Frederick (Colo.)
Subject URI: 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79027734
Subject: 
Coal miners--Personal narratives
Subject: 
Interviews
Subject URI: 
http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423832
Description: 
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.
Description Type: 
summary
Description: 
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.
Description Type: 
Segment Sequence
Publisher: 
University of Colorado Boulder Archives
Contributor: 
DeSantis, Rose
Contributor: 
DeSantis, Genaro
Date: 
1978-01-05
Type: 
Moving image
Format: 
video/mov
Identifier: 
111-DeSantis.mov
Identifier ARK: 
https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/5g148215k3dn
Language: 
English
Relation: 
Title: Making sausage and views of Frederick and surroundings
Relation Type: 
isPartOf
Relation href: 
https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/p9445h31z8wp
Relation: 
Title: Coal mining in the Tobasco Mine
Relation Type: 
isPartOf
Relation href: 
https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/39763q29q2cm
Coverage (Spatial): 
Frederick (Weld, Colorado, United States, North America) (populated place)
Coverage (Temporal): 
1920/1978
Coverage (Spatial): 
Tabasco (Las Animas, Colorado, United States, North America) (unknown)
Coverage (Spatial): 
Trinidad (Las Animas, Colorado, United States, North America) (populated place)