Farms and farming.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:
Woodrow Mosley, Coal Miner, Interview Transcript
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3055
Overview
Transcript of an interview with a retired coal miner of Lincoln County, WV. Mosley lived and worked in the coal fields of Logan County, WV and Pike County, KY most of his life. He started to work in 1929 when mining was still done by pick and shovel and retired in the early sixties when mining had become mechanized. He describes the changes in mining technology he experienced and the effect of unionization in the coal mining region of southern West Virginia.
Dates:
1988
Z.T. McBee Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0025
Overview
Letters sent to Z.T. McBee and members of his immediate family at Clinton Furnace in Monongalia County, mainly from Jackson Steele of Kansas, concerning crops, business conditions, and prices.
Dates:
1856-1896