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Photo, Print, Drawing United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) local, housed in former church

About this Item

Title

  • United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) local, housed in former church

Names

  • Pritt, Charlotte (Depicted)
  • Eiler, Lyntha Scott (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • January 31, 1996

Headings

  • -  Year-round work
  • -  Mining
  • -  Winter
  • -  January
  • -  Signs
  • -  Evacuations
  • -  UMWA local in former church
  • -  United Mineworkers of America (UMWA)
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  West Virginia -- Raleigh County -- Marfork
  • -  West Virginia -- Raleigh County -- Packsville

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  When Marfork Coal company, a subsidiary of Massey Coal Services, opened a non-union mine at Marfork, just above Packsville, the local union opened an outpost at the church. The signs on the church register the church's support for the UMWA and the UMWA's support for Charlotte Pritt, the Democratic candidate for governor in 1996, who lost to Governor Underwood, the Coal industry's candidate.

Medium

  • 35 mm Color Slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1999/008: CRF-LE-C065-06

Source Collection

  • Coal River Folklife Collection (AFC 1999/008)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image

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Credit line

Coal River Folklife Project collection (AFC 1999/008), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Cite This Item

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Chicago citation style:

Pritt, Charlotte, and Lyntha Scott Eiler. United Mine Workers of America UMWA local, housed in former church. Raleigh County West Virginia Packsville Marfork, 1996. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/cmns000178/.

APA citation style:

Pritt, C. & Eiler, L. S. (1996) United Mine Workers of America UMWA local, housed in former church. Raleigh County West Virginia Packsville Marfork, 1996. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/cmns000178/.

MLA citation style:

Pritt, Charlotte, and Lyntha Scott Eiler. United Mine Workers of America UMWA local, housed in former church. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/cmns000178/>.