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Audio Recording Retired miner John "Hammerhead" Hogan, Butte, Montana, discusses his life and work in the mines, part 3

Interview with John "Hammerhead" Hogan who worked in the mines as a shift boss and has a notebook of all the nicknames in Butte.

About this Item

Title

  • Retired miner John "Hammerhead" Hogan, Butte, Montana, discusses his life and work in the mines, part 3

Names

  • Stanton, Gary Ward, 1946- (Collector)
  • Crummett, Michael, 1948- (Collector)
  • Hogan, John (Interviewee)

Created / Published

  • Butte, Montana, August 27, 1979

Headings

  • -  Irish American copper miners
  • -  Mining
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Field recordings
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Sound recordings
  • -  United States -- Montana -- Butte

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Field recordings
  • Interviews
  • Sound recordings

Notes

  • -  Index data: Part 3 of a 3-part recording session with John Hogan in Butte MT: Hogan tells a yarn about the old woman at the Liverpool docks, asked "what' s your son's name," John Donne, something about a misunderstanding, White House, policeman thought he meant toilet, then meets a man coming out of a toilet, and asks, "Are You Donne?", yes!, "Well for God's sake why don't you write your dear mother in Ireland"; reports to fieldworker that Father [James P. ?] Dowdall would know Irish history; about Chardy Dillion, rents a room; working on the slot machine, John Hogan used to be the repairman; about the Red Light district; how Shoelace Annie used to get 4 bits from the miners on payday; story about Straightback Dan; a man nicknamed Lemon could carry dinner for four on top of his head; had a job down at the Pony Chili Parlor when chili first came in; recording ends at about 13 minutes elapsed time.

Medium

  • 7-inch reel

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1981/005: AFS 20432
  • MBRS shelflist: RXA 0918
  • Field project identifier: MT9-GS-R47

Source Collection

  • Montana Folklife Survey collection (AFC 1981/005)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: Montana Folklife Survey collection (AFC 1981/005), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Stanton, Gary Ward, Michael Crummett, and John Hogan. Retired miner John "Hammerhead" Hogan, Butte, Montana, discusses his life and work in the mines, part 3. Butte, Montana, 1979. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981005_afs20432/.

APA citation style:

Stanton, G. W., Crummett, M. & Hogan, J. (1979) Retired miner John "Hammerhead" Hogan, Butte, Montana, discusses his life and work in the mines, part 3. Butte, Montana. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981005_afs20432/.

MLA citation style:

Stanton, Gary Ward, Michael Crummett, and John Hogan. Retired miner John "Hammerhead" Hogan, Butte, Montana, discusses his life and work in the mines, part 3. Butte, Montana, 1979. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1981005_afs20432/>.