107 objects

Two rolls of 35mm film documenting Black Lung Association.

Interview with Connell Pauley discussing school, learning to read at 55 years old at Hindman Sett...

Lee Sexton teaching young banjo student.

Lee Sexton teaching young banjo student.

Lee Sexton teaching young banjo student.

Lee Sexton teaching young banjo student.

Production staff interviewing women in a coal camp at Brookside, KY about life in the camps, the ...

Former coal operator W.P. Tams Jr. discussing the Virginian Railway, changes in the transportatio...

Former coal operator W.P. Tams, Jr. discussing local history, land grants, the arrival of the rai...

W.P. Tams Jr., a former coal operator, talking about the different groups of people in coal camps...

W.P. Tams, a former coal operator, discussing unions, John L. Lewis, the death of the coal camp, ...

W.P. Tams Jr. (former coal operator) discussing his career as the owner of a mine, the cultural m...

A woman and her boy talking about trading, being raised in Evarts, life in the camps. A woman dis...

Mrs. Blakley discusses about how word of a mine accident spread in the coal camp, a mine fire tha...

A woman discussing union organizing, the changing power structures in the UMWA, Tony Boyle, and d...

Lois Scott talking about family politics, wages, coalmining, UMWA strikes, state police

Lois Scott talking about a strike in Benham, Kentucky. She discusses showing up alongside other w...

Lois Scott discussing the mine wars and resistance to labor unions in Harlan County, trains clack...

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

Man discusses crossing the picket lines/scabbing, labor unions, possible corruption or mismanagem...

Kermit Phillips discusses mule/pony mines in Harlan County, hospital cards, the inefficacy of cur...

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

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

John Tiller discussing working in coal mines. A group of men discuss dangers of coal mining and h...

Field audio tape of Hobart Grills and John Tiller discussing the different clashes between union ...

John Tiller and Hobart Grills discuss the battle of Evarts, the labor politics surrounding the ba...

John Tiller, Hobart Grills and an interviewer discuss the Brookside strike and legal action, scab...

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

Brookside, KY coal miner John Hinson discusses labor union politics and conflicts.

Coal miner John Hinson, Brookside, KY, talking about John L. Lewis, building a big hospital, loca...

Coal miner John Hinson discusses working in the mines, being a supervisor, tells stories about di...

Coal miner John Hinson discussing working in the mines, various instances of the danger of mine w...

Coal miner John Hinson (Brookside, KY) discussing fighting, corruption, labor union safety commit...

John Hinson [Henson?] discusses working, living in a coal camp, law enforcement, George Titler, p...

John Hinson, at Brookside, Kentucky, discussing labor unions, contracts, and finding work in the ...