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Oral histories

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Allen Family Genealogy

 Collection — Sc_box MS 5, Folder: 10
Identifier: MS-853
Abstract

History, circa 1961, tracing the lineage of George Issac Allen, a millwright at the Champion Copper Mill in Freda, Michigan, buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Houghton, Michigan. Includes published sources, copies of plat maps, genealogical information, and oral history interviews.

Dates: undated

Painesdale Oral History Project

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-326
Abstract

Oral history project, 1984-1987, conducted by Lillian Tretin as part of her dissertation through the University of Michigan, "Traprock workers: the culture of work and risk at an underground copper mine, 1900-1945." Includes cassettes as well as transcriptions of the interviews of local residents of Painesdale, Michigan, a company town for the Champion Mining Company, a subsidiary of the Copper Range Company.

Dates: 1984-1987