- Collection:
- Working Lives Oral History Project
- Title:
- Interview with King Chandler, Jr.
- Contributor to Resource:
- Chandler, King, Jr.
McCallum, Brenda
McCallum, Steve - Date of Original:
- 1983-05-23
- Subject:
- Chandler, King, Jr.--Interviews
Mining camps--Alabama--Muscoda
Iron ores--Alabama
United States. Works Progress Administration
Depressions--1929--Alabama
United States--Civilization--1970- - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
- Medium:
- interviews
transcripts - Type:
- Sound
Text - Format:
- audio/mpeg
image/jpeg - Description:
- In this interview, Chandler recalls growing up in the Muscoda mining camps; he discusses camp schools and baseball teams, and meeting his wife in the camp. For income, Chandler worked in the iron ore mines, went into the army and worked for the WPA (Works Progress Administration). He also rented an acre of land from the company, for farming. Chandler also discusses living during the Depression; he recalls that the Red Cross set up stores that issued flour, meal, peas, rice, vegetables and canned pork.
The digitization of this collection was funded by a gift from EBSCO Industries. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.libraries.ua.edu/cdm/ref/collection/u0008_0000003/id/81
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Images are in the public domain or protected under U.S. copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code), and both types may be used for research and private study. For publication, commercial use, or reproduction, in print or digital format, of all images and/or the accompanying data, users are required to secure prior written permission from the copyright holder and from archives@ua.edu. When permission is granted, please credit the images as Courtesy of The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections.
- Original Collection:
- Working Lives Oral History Project
- Contributing Institution:
- William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library
- Rights:
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