William "Bill" Lucas, Jr. Underground Iron Mining Oral History Interview Transcript/Summary

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William "Bill" Lucas, Jr. Underground Iron Mining Oral History Interview Transcript/Summary
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Interviewee (ive): Lucas, William Jr.
Interviewer (ivr): Andes, Mary Tippett
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Contributor (ctb): Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives
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<a href="https://uplink.nmu.edu/islandora/object/nmu%3A43421">Listen to part 1 of the interview here.</a> <br> <a href="https://uplink.nmu.edu/islandora/object/nmu%3A43422">Listen to part 2 of the interview here.</a> <br> <a href="https://uplink.nmu.edu/islandora/object/nmu%3A43423">Listen to part 3 of the interview here.</a> <br> <a href="https://uplink.nmu.edu/islandora/object/nmu%3A43424">Listen to part 4 of the interview here.</a> <br> <a href="https://uplink.nmu.edu/islandora/object/nmu%3A43425">Listen to part 5 of the interview here.</a>
Language
Language
English
Subject Topic
Subject Topic
Oral histories (document genres).
Transcripts.
Emigration and immigration.
Finnish Americans.
Iron Miners' Strike, Marquette County, Mich., 1946.
Iron mines and mining.
Iron miners
Subject Corporate Name
Subject Corporate Name
Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company
Geographic Subject
Geographic Subject
Marquette Iron Range (Mich.).
Ishpeming (Mich.).
North Lake (Mich.)
Finland.
Upper Peninsula (Mich.).
Marquette County (Mich.)
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Date Created
1994
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1 item
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pdf
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Title
MSS-180, Oral histories of underground iron miners
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biographical/historical
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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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Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives
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“William ‘Bill’ Lucas, Jr. Underground Iron Mining Oral History Interview Transcript/Summary”. Interview by Mary Tippett Andes. Pdf. Transcripts and Summaries. Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives. https://nmu-prod.i8.dgicloud.com/node/33062.
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