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African American couple with three of their daughters

Exterior of family in front of foliage. Parents are sitting and holding three young daughters on ...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
As Long as It Takes (AMI)
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This video from 1993 features testimony and footage from union coal miners on strike at the Beth-...

Appalachian Media Institute collection
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A woman talking about women coal miners, disadvantages for black miners and women miners.

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Barbara Angles of Westernport, Maryland, interviewed on March 5, 1981. Angles discusses community...

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An interview with a woman talking about coal mining, the advantages/disadvantages of mining, why ...

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A group of women talking about working in the mines, sex discrimination in the mines, hiring prac...

Duplication master (preservation) - Coal Miner Frank Jackson (full film)

Portrait of a coal miner which includes footage in and around Laurel Branch Mine in Virginia.  Fr...

Master and Preservation elements (CMFJ)
Film still of miners in hats (exterior) - UMWA 1970:  A House Divided

Film still of coal miners wearing mining hats with lamps.  Created for documentation and promotio...

United Mine Workers of America 1970: A House Divided materials, c.1971
Footage inside and outside coal mine, interview with driver

Miners working in a underground mine, men discuss why they decided to be miners, working in the m...

Underground Miner materials
Footage inside coal mine with machine noise, discussion of fossils

Miners working in an underground mine. A miner discusses fossils as an indication of "bad top."

Underground Miner materials
Footage inside coal mine, continuous miner

Miners working underground, machines whirring in background, continuous miner. Man talks to produ...

Underground Miner materials
Footage inside coal mine, discussion of city people, dangers of mining

Miners working inside a mine, production staff asks questions about roof bolts, mine safety, city...

Underground Miner materials
Footage inside coal mine, discussion of jokes, animals

Coal miners working underground, discuss jokes, working underground, animals in mines, dangers of...

Underground Miner materials
Footage inside coal mine, discussion of strange things, interdependence

Miners discussing coal mining culture, life as a coal miner, hazards of working underground, the ...

Underground Miner materials
Footage inside coal mine, sounding the top, noise

Miners working in a underground mine, men discuss working in the mines.

Underground Miner materials
Footage inside coal mine, with machine noise and mostly dark

Miners working in an underground mine. 

Underground Miner materials
Footage inside mine, discussion of what makes an underground miner

Group of miners working in an underground mine, discussing what it's like to work in the mine

Underground Miner materials
Footage of coal miners entering a mine

January 15, 1987 - Miners entering and working in an underground mine, filmed by Anne Lewis and A...

Underground Miner materials
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A man discussing his career as coal miner, harassment and safety in mines, his observations the d...

The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man materials, c.1975
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Oral history interview with Collins and Effie Hollyfield of Dunham, KY.

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Interview with Collins and Effie Hollyfield (transcript)

Transcript of 1991 oral history interview with Collins and Effie Hollyfield. Conducted by Appalsh...

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Women at Brookside, Harlan County, KY discussing life in the coal camps, bath houses, their famil...

Coal Camp materials; Field audio recordings - Coal Camp
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England Asher discussing life in the coal camp, gardening; another man discusses being a coal min...

Coal Camp materials; Field audio recordings - Coal Camp
Interview with Hazel Dickens about black lung, her own songs

Mimi Pickering interviews Hazel Dickens, who discusses the first time she sang Black Lung live at...

Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song materials, c.2001
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Coal miner John Hinson of Brookside, KY discussing the inadequate medical care provided by compan...

Coal Camp materials; Field audio recordings - Coal Camp
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Coal miner John Hinson discussing working in the mines, various instances of the danger of mine w...

Coal Camp materials
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A man discussing the struggles of coal miners, death of coal miners, miners' culture, John L. Lew...

Coal Camp materials
Interview with Kermit Phillips about children in the coal mines

A man discussing children these days, mining, Brookside, advantages of physical work. 

Underground Miner materials
Interview with Kermit Phillips about coal mine safety, unequal society

Union miner Kermit Phillips discusses how he started working in the mines, how he became a union ...

Underground Miner materials
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Lois Scott discusses union organizing and her personal family experiences with union-related viol...

Coal Camp materials
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Nimrod Workman, a woman, and an interviewer discuss loading coal, Nimrod's decision to work in th...

Nimrod Workman: To Fit My Own Category materials, c.1975
Interview with Nomonde Ngubo about coal mining in US vs. South Africa

Raw footage from the filming of Mine War on Blackberry Creek (1986). Anne Lewis interviews Nomond...

Mine War on Blackberry Creek materials, c.1986
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W.P. Tams Jr. (former coal operator) discussing his career as the owner of a mine, the cultural m...

Coal Camp materials
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A group of people discussing an explosion in Scotia Mine in the Ovenfork Community of Letcher Cou...

Post Flood Digitization
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Nimrod Workman sings and preaches about labor unions and miners' issues. Nimrod's daughter sings ...

Nimrod Workman: To Fit My Own Category materials, c.1975
Production still of group of coal miners debording transport, exterior - UMWA 1970:  A House Divided

Production still coal miners debording transport, exterior. Created for documentation and promoti...

United Mine Workers of America 1970: A House Divided materials, c.1971
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