La Lone provides an ethnographic overview of mining culture and practices. Photographs and maps.
Armistead told his story to S.L. Gardner, a former teacher and librarian who has written about coal camps for the Times West Virginian. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The series contains items on such film personalities — not just stars — as Harry Carey Sr. , James Cruze , Douglas Fairbanks ... according to the same source , also holds two prints , but he doesn't know which episodes they are .
This is a look into the everyday life of the miner, how he strives to work under difficult conditions, surviving in and outside the mine.
Men, Mines and Memories: Iron Mining in Iron County, Michigan
In this book, former coal miners recall their time spent labouring in the local mines: Josh Greenwood recalls at age fourteen pushing tubs of coal for the colliers in his bare feet along the dark and wet underground galleries at the old ...
Finally, readers who fancy stories about salt-of-the-earth folk who fight for what they believe in...and win...will love the way this book fleshes out the robust day-to-day life of real people who knew how to work hard and play hard.
Memories Come to Us in the Rain and the Wind: Oral Histories and Photographs of Navajo Uranium Miners & Their...
The book shows that beyond representing the struggles of individual subjects, narratives of childhood are part of a process of constructing and reconstructing cultural identity.
Challenging the traditional scholarly hierarchy of text over images, this book stands out by using art photography as a means to address these issues and to mediate the contemporary archaeology of Pyramiden.