Kaarina Lucas Underground Iron Mining Oral History Interview Transcript
| Title: | Kaarina Lucas Underground Iron Mining Oral History Interview Transcript. | |
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| Name(s): |
Lucas, Kaarina, Interviewee Andes, Mary Tippett, Interviewer Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives, contributor |
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| Date Created: | 1994-07 | |
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| Extent: | 1 item | |
| Language: | English | |
| Abstract/Description: |
Listen to part 1 of the interview here.
Listen to part 2 of the interview here. |
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| Note(s): |
This oral history interview transcript is one of several on underground iron mining conducted by researcher Mary Tippett Andes for her book "The Last Generation Underground." Kaarina Korpi Lucas (1922-2013) was born near Ishpeming, MI to Matt Korpi and Hilda Wiipola. She was the wife of miner William Lucas. Lucas describes life in rural Ishpeming as the daughter of a miner at Barnum Mine, growing up on a farm during the Depression, joining the Navy WAVES [Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service] program in college, marrying William Lucas and being the wife of a miner, and general life in the mid-twentieth century. (External source of biographical information: Kaarina Lucas Obituary, https://www.miningjournal.net/obituaries/2013/08/kaarina-lucas/) |
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| Subject(s): |
Oral histories (document genres). Transcripts. Iron mines and mining. Ishpeming (Mich.). Great Depression (1929). United States, Navy, subject Upper Peninsula (Mich.). Marquette County (Mich.) Marquette Iron Range (Mich.) |
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| Held by: | Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives | |
| Restrictions on Access: | In copyright (http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/) | |
| Is Part Of: | MSS-180, Oral histories of underground iron miners. | |
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