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  • Tags: occupational folklife

morelli-albert_harvesting-ice.mp3
Albert Morelli of Champlain, NY describes harvesting ice from Lake Champlain in the winter. Audio and text excerpt from a February 18, 1994 interview with Albert Morelli conducted by Gregory Sharrow (TC1994-2011). A part of the Lake Champlain Project…

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Image of a man cutting ice with an ice saw. Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Image series depicting loggers Donald and Bernard Harrington of West Greenwich, RI at work on December 12, 1979. Includes photographs of the pair attaching logs to a skidder to move them from the woods to and be load them onto a truck. Photography by…

Audio clip and text of interview with Richard Rowe, a business agent for Iron Workers Union (IWU) Local #63, who discusses his background, his entrance into the iron working trade, his involvement in the IWU, labor history, and the current state of…

messier-john_skidding-logs.mp3
John Messier of Brookfield, VT discusses logging in the winter months with this father. Audio and text excerpt from a December 2, 1989 interview with Katharine DuClos conducted by Gregory Sharrow (TC1989-2074). A part of the Farm Series Project…

Image and caption from Richard Rowe interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker: Richard Rich Rowe, business agent for Iron Workers Union (IWU) Local #63 and unofficial iron worker historian, at IWU Local #63 Headquarters in Broadview, IL.

Image and caption from Richard Rowe interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker: An Iron Worker Union (IWU) Local #63 pin honoring work on the Chicago "bean" [Anish Kapoor's "Cloud Gate" sculpture] in Millennium Park in downtown Chicago. Many members…
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