COLLECTION NAME:
Colorado Coal Project
Collection Name:
Colorado Coal Project
Title:
Interview with Josephine Bazanele
Creator:
Margolis, Eric, 1947-
Creator:
McMahan, Ronald L.
Subject:
Coal mines and mining
Subject:
Coal miners--Health and hygiene--United States
Subject:
Quality of life--United States--History
Subject:
Husband and wife--United States--History
Subject:
Domestic relations--United States--History--20th century
Subject:
Interviews
Description:
A family talks about the life of a miner's wife, which consisted of long hours, hard work, and raising children. In general, the men worked in the mine for nine hours and relaxed in the evening, while the women did the all house work (cooking meals, baking bread, fetching water, cleaning) until the late evening. Washing, mending, and sewing new clothes was done by hand. The company house had to be renovated and repaired by the miners. The men hunted rabbits, squirrels, and birds and made sausage from the meat. The women raised vegetables in the garden. More details are provided about what they ate and the things they crafted themselves. A pay statement from 1945 shows what was withheld by the mining company. At 83, Mrs. Bazanele still makes embroidered woolen blankets for her grandchildren and sees it as her wifely duties to care for her husband (age 86).
Description Type:
summary
Publisher:
University of Colorado Boulder Archives
Contributor:
Bazanele, Josephine, 1895-1982
Date:
1975
Type:
Text
Format:
application/pdf
Identifier:
narv_coloradoCoal_transBazanele3.pdf
Identifier ARK:
Language:
English
Relation:
Title: Bazanele interview (Part 2 of 2)
Relation Type:
isPartOf
Relation:
Title: Bazanele interview (Part 1 of 2)
Relation Type:
isPartOf
Relation href:
Coverage (Spatial):
Bear Canyon (Las Animas, Colorado, United States, North America) (valley)
Coverage (Temporal):
1904/1975
Coverage (Spatial):
Colorado (United States, North America) (first order administrative divisions)
Coverage (Spatial):
Tyrol (Austria, Europe) (first order administrative divisions)
Coverage (Spatial):
Bear Canyon Mine (Las Animas, Colorado, United States, North America) (mine)
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