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10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America, 6, Gold Rush
produced by Michael Ehrenzweig, fl. 1974-2015, in 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America, 6 (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 2006), 44 mins
When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill, California, in 1848, some 300,000 people from the rest of the United States and abroad flooded the region to try to strike it rich. Using re-creations, archival photos, and interviews with noted historians, this program examines the quest for wealth as well as the far-rea...
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produced by Michael Ehrenzweig, fl. 1974-2015, in 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America, 6 (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 2006), 44 mins
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When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill, California, in 1848, some 300,000 people from the rest of the United States and abroad flooded the region to try to strike it rich. Using re-creations, archival photos, and interviews with noted historians, this program examines the quest for wealth as well as the far-reaching impact the Gold Rush had on the nation's economic, geographic, and psychic landscape.
Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Michael Ehrenzweig, fl. 1974-2015, Zachary Drake
Date Published / Released
2006
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Series
10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
Speaker / Narrator
Zachary Drake
Topic / Theme
Frontier and pioneer life, Gold mines and mining, California Gold Rush, 1849, American History, Expansion & Sectionalism (1829–1859), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Copyright 2008 A&E Television Networks
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Ford Educational Library, Mine Town
produced by Ford Motor Company, in Ford Educational Library (Detroit, MI: Ford Motor Company, 1920), 2 mins
This documentary, produced by the Ford Motor Company, features scenery of a mining town and mine workers eating a meal.
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produced by Ford Motor Company, in Ford Educational Library (Detroit, MI: Ford Motor Company, 1920), 2 mins
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This documentary, produced by the Ford Motor Company, features scenery of a mining town and mine workers eating a meal.
Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Ford Motor Company
Date Published / Released
1920
Publisher
Ford Motor Company
Series
Ford Educational Library
Topic / Theme
Mining industry, Mining towns, World War I & Jazz Age (1914–1928)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1919 by Ford Motor Company
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Ford Educational Library, Phosphate Mining, Part 2
produced by Ford Motor Company, in Ford Educational Library (Detroit, MI: Ford Motor Company, 1922), 2 mins
This documentary, produced by the Ford Motor Company, features phosphate mining.
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produced by Ford Motor Company, in Ford Educational Library (Detroit, MI: Ford Motor Company, 1922), 2 mins
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This documentary, produced by the Ford Motor Company, features phosphate mining.
Date Written / Recorded
1922
Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Ford Motor Company
Date Published / Released
1922
Publisher
Ford Motor Company
Series
Ford Educational Library
Topic / Theme
Mining communities, Mining industry, Trade and Commerce, Science and Technology, World War I & Jazz Age (1914–1928)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1922 by Ford Motor Company
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Ford Educational Library, Ford Coal Mine, Part 2
produced by Ford Motor Company, in Ford Educational Library (Detroit, MI: Ford Motor Company, 1923), 9 mins
This documentary, produced by the Ford Motor Company, features coal mining and a coal mining camp.
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produced by Ford Motor Company, in Ford Educational Library (Detroit, MI: Ford Motor Company, 1923), 9 mins
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This documentary, produced by the Ford Motor Company, features coal mining and a coal mining camp.
Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Ford Motor Company
Date Published / Released
1923
Publisher
Ford Motor Company
Series
Ford Educational Library
Topic / Theme
Coal, Coal mines and mining, Mining camps, World War I & Jazz Age (1914–1928)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1923 by Ford Motor Company
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Industry on Parade, Sylacauga Saga - Seminar for Executives - A Message from Industry to You
in Prelinger Collection, of United States. Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Collection; produced by National Association of Manufacturers, in Industry on Parade (District of Columbia: National Association of Manufacturers), 7 mins
This documentary features the manufacturing industry.
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in Prelinger Collection, of United States. Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Collection; produced by National Association of Manufacturers, in Industry on Parade (District of Columbia: National Association of Manufacturers), 7 mins
Description
This documentary features the manufacturing industry.
Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
National Association of Manufacturers
Publisher
National Association of Manufacturers
Series
Industry on Parade
Topic / Theme
Association and organization conferences, Cotton, Cotton mills, Demographics, Economic conditions, Factories, Industrial design, Manufactured material, Manufacturing industry, Mill towns, American History, Post-war Era (1945–1960), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright owner is unknown. Alexander Street Press is eager to hear from any rights owners who are not properly identified so that appropriate information may be provided in the future. Any information concerning rights to this work can be sent to the editor at the address below.
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Ken Burns's The West, 3, The Speck of the Future
written by Ken Burns, 1953-; directed by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017, in Ken Burns's The West, 3 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 1996), 1 hour 26 mins
By 1848, the United States claimed virtually all of the West. The Louisiana Purchase, the annexation of Texas and Oregon, and the war with Mexico had stretched the nation's boundaries all the way to the Pacific. But the West was American in name only. Few people east of the Mississippi were anxious to venture into...
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written by Ken Burns, 1953-; directed by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017, in Ken Burns's The West, 3 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 1996), 1 hour 26 mins
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By 1848, the United States claimed virtually all of the West. The Louisiana Purchase, the annexation of Texas and Oregon, and the war with Mexico had stretched the nation's boundaries all the way to the Pacific. But the West was American in name only. Few people east of the Mississippi were anxious to venture into its forbidding interior. It still seemed too distant, too mysterious, too dangerous. Then gold was discovered in California, and every...
By 1848, the United States claimed virtually all of the West. The Louisiana Purchase, the annexation of Texas and Oregon, and the war with Mexico had stretched the nation's boundaries all the way to the Pacific. But the West was American in name only. Few people east of the Mississippi were anxious to venture into its forbidding interior. It still seemed too distant, too mysterious, too dangerous. Then gold was discovered in California, and everything changed -- for the West, and for the country. Suddenly, gold-seekers rushed in from every corner of the globe: Chinese peasants, pursuing tales of a 'gold mountain' across the ocean, Mexican farmers and clerks from London, tailors from Eastern Europe and South American aristocrats fallen on hard times. The thin stream of American emigrants crossing the continent became a torrent -- thousands upon thousands of optimistic but inexperienced prospectors, willing to leave their homes and families, and set out on the long trail for California, hoping to strike it rich and return in glory. It had taken half a century for the United States to encompass the vast spaces of the West. Now, the lust for gold would animate the nation to begin to fill them up.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017, Peter Coyote, 1941-
Author / Creator
Ken Burns, 1953-, Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017
Date Published / Released
1996
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Series
Ken Burns's The West
Speaker / Narrator
Peter Coyote, 1941-
Person Discussed
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, 1808-1890, William Swain, 1822-
Topic / Theme
American Indians, Chinese people, Gold, Gold mines and mining, Migration, Miners, Mining communities, Mining industry, Mining towns, Pioneers, Sioux people, California Gold Rush, 1849, American History, Expansion & Sectionalism (1829–1859), Chinese, Dakota, Russians, Ukrainians, Rusyn, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
Copyright Message
© 1996 The West Film Project, Inc./Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc.
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Mine 21
directed by Stephen L. Garrett, fl. 2007; produced by Stephen L. Garrett, fl. 2007; interview by Alexa Fults and Kelsey Arbuckle (Privately Published, 2020), 27 mins
On December 8, 1981, Mine 21, one of several underground coal-mines operated by Grundy Mining Company in the unincorporated area between Palmer and Whitwell, Tennessee, exploded and killed thirteen miners. While not on the same scale as the disasters in Fraterville (May 19, 1902, in which 216 miners were killed) o...
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directed by Stephen L. Garrett, fl. 2007; produced by Stephen L. Garrett, fl. 2007; interview by Alexa Fults and Kelsey Arbuckle (Privately Published, 2020), 27 mins
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On December 8, 1981, Mine 21, one of several underground coal-mines operated by Grundy Mining Company in the unincorporated area between Palmer and Whitwell, Tennessee, exploded and killed thirteen miners. While not on the same scale as the disasters in Fraterville (May 19, 1902, in which 216 miners were killed) or Cross Mountain (December 9, 1911, in which 84 died), Mine 21 was the worst mining disaster in Tennessee since the introduction of mod...
On December 8, 1981, Mine 21, one of several underground coal-mines operated by Grundy Mining Company in the unincorporated area between Palmer and Whitwell, Tennessee, exploded and killed thirteen miners. While not on the same scale as the disasters in Fraterville (May 19, 1902, in which 216 miners were killed) or Cross Mountain (December 9, 1911, in which 84 died), Mine 21 was the worst mining disaster in Tennessee since the introduction of modern safety precautions. The Department of Labor would eventually rule that “a cigarette lighter taken into a coal mine in violation of Federal regulations touched off a methane explosion,” but “accused the Grundy County Mining Company, the mine’s operator, of failure to evacuate workers from a methane-laden shaft, to adequately ventilate the shaft and to enforce a Federal regulation prohibiting smoking materials in a mine” (New York Times, May 5, 1982). The matter went all the way to the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, chaired by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Massachusetts).
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Field of Study
American History, American Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Stephen L. Garrett, fl. 2007
Author / Creator
Stephen L. Garrett, fl. 2007, Alexa Fults, Kelsey Arbuckle
Date Published / Released
2019, 2020
Publisher
Privately Published
Person Discussed
J. T. Shadrick, Max Fraser, Barbara Myers, Jimmy Holtzclaw
Topic / Theme
Mining towns, Coal mines and mining, Family and Culture, Late 20th Century (1975–2000), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2019 The University of the South
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Wild West Tech, Deadwood Tech
directed by Laura Verklan, fl. 1991, in Wild West Tech (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 2004), 42 mins
Touted as one of the 'liveliest and peculiar places west of the Mississippi,' in Deadwood speculators, misfits, and cold-blooded killers came together to stake their claim. Located in South Dakota's Black Hills, in this raunchy, rip-roaring town, primitive technology met bold innovations, commerce and corruption c...
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directed by Laura Verklan, fl. 1991, in Wild West Tech (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 2004), 42 mins
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Touted as one of the 'liveliest and peculiar places west of the Mississippi,' in Deadwood speculators, misfits, and cold-blooded killers came together to stake their claim. Located in South Dakota's Black Hills, in this raunchy, rip-roaring town, primitive technology met bold innovations, commerce and corruption collided, and shootouts were as common as the filth that filled the streets. Host Keith Carradine examines the good, bad, and ugly techn...
Touted as one of the 'liveliest and peculiar places west of the Mississippi,' in Deadwood speculators, misfits, and cold-blooded killers came together to stake their claim. Located in South Dakota's Black Hills, in this raunchy, rip-roaring town, primitive technology met bold innovations, commerce and corruption collided, and shootouts were as common as the filth that filled the streets. Host Keith Carradine examines the good, bad, and ugly technologies of the last and richest gold rush town, including stagecoaches and stagecoach robberies; bull whacking and bull trains; gold counterfeiting; saw mills; smelter and cyanide mills; electric marquees; and mortuary science. And we feature forensic analysis of Wild Bill Hickok's death, and say howdy to a few of Deadwood's other famous characters like Calamity Jane.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
David Carradine, 1936-2009
Author / Creator
Laura Verklan, fl. 1991
Date Published / Released
2004
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Series
Wild West Tech
Speaker / Narrator
David Carradine, 1936-2009
Topic / Theme
Mining towns, American History, The Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1876–1913), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
Copyright Message
Copyright 2008 A&E Television Networks
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