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Mining engineer, consultant, and entrepreneur in Nevada and Utah, 1934-1992 : oral history transcript / 1993.
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Mining engineer, consultant, and entrepreneur in Nevada and Utah, 1934-1992 : oral history transcript / 1993
Western mining in the twentieth century oral history series

Creator/Contributor:

Arentz, Samuel Shaw, 1913-, creator, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Wheeler, Dooley Peyton.

Creator/Contributor:

Swent, Eleanor, interviewer.

Creator/Contributor:

Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.

Abstract:

Arentz discusses his childhood in Nevada and Washington, D.C.; working in mines in Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, and Utah; employment of Black miners furloughed from the army during world War II; changes in mining methods, organization, and equipment.

Date:

1993 (issued)

Subject:

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Mining engineers -- West (U.S.) -- Interviews
Mines and mineral resources -- West (U.S.)
World War, 1939-1945 -- African Americans
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Noirs américains
African Americans
Mines and mineral resources
Mining engineers
West United States

Note:

Samuel Shaw Arentz ; with an introduction by Dooley P. Wheeler ; interviews conducted by Eleanor Swent in 1991 and 1992. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Interviewed for the Western mining in the twentieth century series.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interview also available. Classified as: Phonotape 2737 C:1-7.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library. Duplicate transcript.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

Interviews.
Oral histories.

Physical Description:

print
1 v. (xiv, 104 leaves): port. ; 29 cm.
3 cassette tapes.

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Related Item:

Mining engineer, consultant, and entrepreneur in Nevada and Utah, 1934-1992 : oral history transcript 1993 : Arentz, Samuel Shaw, 1913- : (OCoLC)1085936346