Kaarina Lucas Underground Iron Mining Oral History Interview Transcript

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Title
Kaarina Lucas Underground Iron Mining Oral History Interview Transcript
Persons
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Interviewee (ive): Lucas, Kaarina
Interviewer (ivr): Andes, Mary Tippett
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Contributor (ctb): Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives
Description / Synopsis
Description / Synopsis
<a href="https://uplink.nmu.edu/islandora/object/nmu%3A43419">Listen to part 1 of the interview here.</a> <br> <a href="https://uplink.nmu.edu/islandora/object/nmu%3A43420">Listen to part 2 of the interview here.</a>
Language
Language
English
Subject Topic
Subject Topic
Oral histories (document genres).
Transcripts.
Iron mines and mining.
Subject Corporate Name
Subject Corporate Name
United States. Navy
Geographic Subject
Geographic Subject
Ishpeming (Mich.).
Upper Peninsula (Mich.).
Marquette County (Mich.)
Marquette Iron Range (Mich.)
Temporal Subject
Temporal Subject
Great Depression (1929).
Origin Information
Origin Information
Date Created
1994-07
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Extent
1 item
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Physical Form
pdf
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Title
MSS-180, Oral histories of underground iron miners
Note
Note Type
biographical/historical
Note
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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Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives
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“Kaarina Lucas Underground Iron Mining Oral History Interview Transcript”. Interview by Mary Tippett Andes. Pdf. Transcripts and Summaries. Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives. https://nmu-prod.i8.dgicloud.com/node/38578.
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