Mining Memories
La Lone provides an ethnographic overview of mining culture and practices. Photographs and maps.
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 .
Mining Memories and Musings: Autobiography of a Mining Engineer
This story takes place in a real mining community during 1947 in the UK. The wife of the mines chief electrical engineer, Ivy, falls in love with one of the younger miners, however, when the mine experiences a disaster, Ivy is on the group ...
Features essays that combine research, critical analyses and theoretical approaches regarding the meaning and value of amateur and archival films. This book identifies home movies as methods of visually preserving history.
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.
Index to Appalachian Coal Mining Memories: Life in the Coal Fields of Virginia's New River Valley
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.
Situated on the south shore of Lake Superior, the Gogebic Iron Range of Michigan and Wisconsin exudes a strong sense of place.