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Walter J. Cheney interview conducted by Margaret A. Glaser and Charlie Seemann, 2011-09-07
Interview with Walter "Bimbo" Cheney, former cowboy, now surface miner with Newmont Mining Corporation in Elko, Nevada, one of the world's largest gold mining companies. He discussed his previous occupation as cowboy, reasons for leaving that occupation to become a miner, similarities and differences in the occupations, and a description of his present job as miner.
Contributor:
Cheney, Walter J. - Seemann, Charlie - Glaser, Meg A. - Occupational Folklife Project
War or Conflict: War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; Persian Gulf War, 1991
Branch of Service: Navy
Service Unit/Ship: Task Force 76, 7th Fleet; Headquarters, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation; USS Kiska (AE 35); USS Yosemite (AD 19); USS Yellowstone (AD 41); USS Shasta (AE 33); USS Bridge (AOE 10)
War or Conflict: Afghan War, 2001-2021; Iraq War, 2003-2011
Branch of Service: Army
Location of Service: Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Fort Gordon, Georgia; Fort Lewis, Washington; Stuttgart, Germany; Kuwait; Bolivia
The drop
Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
LAPD detective Harry Bosch simultaneously investigates a killer who has been operating undetected for thirty years and a political conspiracy that has its origins in his police department.
Andrea Goethals, Harvard University Library
Andrea Goethals, digital preservation and repository services manager at the Harvard University library, talks with the Library of Congress’s Mike Ashenfelder about her career transition from architecture to information technology and about her repository work at the Florida Digital Archive and in Harvard University’s library system. Goethals also talks about her work on the Global Digital Format Registry and with the preservation working group…
The Future of Music
Host Steve Mencher talks with Tod Machover, composer and Director, Professor of Music and Media, and Director of the Opera of the Future Group at MIT.
Service Unit/Ship: USS Barbour County (LST 1195); USS Moinester (FF 1052); USS Coral Sea (CV 41); USS Preble (DDG 46); REDCOM 10; Portsmouth Naval Hospital; Surface Warfare Officers School (SWOS); Navy Reserve
Location of Service: Newport, Rhode Island; San Diego, California; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Norfolk, Virginia; Norfolk, Virginia; Portsmouth, Virginia; New Orleans, Louisiana; Atlantic Ocean; Pacific Ocean; Saint Petersburg, Florida; Tampa, Florida
personal narrativeJerrie R. Muir Collection
Audio RecordingWalter J. Cheney interview conducted by Margaret A. Glaser and Charlie Seemann, 2011-09-07 Interview with Walter "Bimbo" Cheney, former cowboy, now surface miner with Newmont Mining Corporation in Elko, Nevada, one of the world's largest gold mining companies. He discussed his previous occupation as cowboy, reasons for leaving that occupation to become a miner, similarities and differences in the occupations, and a description of his present job as miner.
Audio RecordingWilliam C. Tanneberg interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-11. Concerns Tanneberg's experiences as an ironworker and, subsequently, a blacksmith, with some brief information about his labor in the engine room of a Great Lakes freighter.
Audio RecordingThe drop Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available LAPD detective Harry Bosch simultaneously investigates a killer who has been operating undetected for thirty years and a political conspiracy that has its origins in his police department.
Audio RecordingAndrea Goethals, Harvard University Library Andrea Goethals, digital preservation and repository services manager at the Harvard University library, talks with the Library of Congress’s Mike Ashenfelder about her career transition from architecture to information technology and about her repository work at the Florida Digital Archive and in Harvard University’s library system. Goethals also talks about her work on the Global Digital Format Registry and with the preservation working group…
Audio RecordingThe Future of Music Host Steve Mencher talks with Tod Machover, composer and Director, Professor of Music and Media, and Director of the Opera of the Future Group at MIT.