Oral histories of underground iron miners 1960-1994

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Oral histories of underground iron miners 1960-1994

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/231849971

This collection contains a 24 audiocassettes and selected transcripts of interviews with eight former underground iron miners, as conducted by Mary Tippett Andes between 1960 and 1994. The miners interviewed are Glenn Bjork, Lucas Kaarina, Louis La Jeunesse, William Lucas, Ralph Maki, Duane Tibbet Smail, Lowell K. Smail, and Dewey B. Tippett. Each miner recounts his experiences as an underground iron miner working for the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company on the Marquette Iron Range in Marquette County, Michigan. Also included in the collection are release forms and other documentation of the project.

1.5 Cubic feet 24 sound cassettes + transcripts.

Olson Library, Northern Michigan University, Lydia M. Olson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7094588

Olson Library, Northern Michigan University, Lydia M. Olson Library

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Smail, Duane Tibbet

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Maki, Ralph

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Bjork, Glenn

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Kaarina, Lucas

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Tippett, Dewey B.

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Smail, Lowell K.

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Lucas, William R.

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William Lucas was a fellow of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects and won second prize in the competition. He was the author of the The war memorial of Victoria and capital: a suggestion (Melbourne: 1919). In 1927, he won a competition for the design of the Australian National War Memorial to be erected at Villers-Bretonneux, France. His son, Lieutenant Norman Carey Lucas was killed in France in 1916. From the description of The National War Memorial for Victoria : a review o...

La Jeunesse, Louis

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Andes, Mary Tippett

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Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company

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The Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company was formed in 1891 with the merger of the Cleveland Iron Mining Co. and the Iron Cliffs Co. The Michigan office of the new company was established in Ishpeming. By the turn of the century, the company comprised a combination of constituent, allied and associated companies. Some were mining concerns, but others were established or aquired to provide transportation, to deal in land and lumber, or to manufacture products from iron or lumber. The Land and Lumbering ...