William "Bill" Lucas, Jr. Underground Iron Mining Oral History Interview Transcript/Summary
| Title: | William "Bill" Lucas, Jr. Underground Iron Mining Oral History Interview Transcript/Summary. | |
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| Name(s): |
Lucas, William Jr., Interviewee Andes, Mary Tippett, Interviewer Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives, contributor |
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| Date Created: | 1994 | |
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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. Listen to part 3 of the interview here. Listen to part 4 of the interview here. Listen to part 5 of the interview here. |
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| Note(s): |
This document is part transcript, part summary. It is one of several interviews on underground iron mining conducted by researcher Mary Tippett Andes for her book "The Last Generation Underground." William Lucas, Jr. was part of the last generation of underground miners on the Marquette Iron Range. He was interviewed in Ishpeming, Michigan. He was born in 1911 in North Lake, Michigan. His parents emigrated from Finland via Sweden, Norway, and Canada to Ishpeming, Michigan. His father worked for the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Mining Company as lead man in shaft work at Holmes, Lloyd Mine #1, Barnes-Hecker Mine, and Greenwood Mine. Mr. Lucas describes his career as an underground miner from 1934-1973. He also discusses underground mining terminology, iron ore mining, the labor strike of 1946, Cliff’s Shaft, Mather B Mine, and speaking Finnish at home while he was growing up. |
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| Subject(s): |
Oral histories (document genres). Transcripts. Marquette Iron Range (Mich.). Ishpeming (Mich.). Emigration and immigration. North Lake (Mich.) Finland. Finnish Americans. Iron Miners' Strike, Marquette County, Mich., 1946. Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company,, subject Iron mines and mining. Iron miners Upper Peninsula (Mich.). Marquette County (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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