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MOWEAQUA COAL MINE Campbell recalls Moweaqua, Illinois: family, childhood games and chores, a job in an Gary, Indiana steel mill, and the effects of the 1932 Christmas Eve mine disaster.

1 tape, 60 mins., 14 pp. Interview by Debbie Springer Horne, 1994 Donated by the Moweaqua Coal Mine Museum RESTRICTED: May be read, quoted or cited but not reproduced.

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MOWEAQUA COAL MINE Coombe recalls Moweaqua, Illinois: family, childhood games and chores, work for the Moweaqua News newspaper, and the effects of the Moweaqua mine disaster on Christmas Eve, 1932.

1 tape, 60 mins., 14 pp. Interview by Debbie Springer Horne, 1994 Donated by the Moweaqua Coal Mine Museum RESTRICTED: May be read, quoted or cited but not reproduced.

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MOWEAQUA COAL MINE Corby recalls growing up in Bethany, Illinois: family, chores, and holidays; marriage and move to Moweaqua; death of her husband in the 1932 Christmas Eve mine disaster; and her life after the disaster.

1 tape, 60 mins., 17 pp. Interview by Debbie Springer Horne, 1994 Donated by the Moweaqua Coal Mine Museum RESTRICTED: May be read, quoted or cited but cannot be reproduced.

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MOWEAQUA COAL MINE Hibbard recalls Moweaqua, Illinois, his family, childhood games and chores, family members' employment in the Moweaqua coal mine, and the 1932 Christmas Eve disaster.

1 tape, 60 mins., 16 pp. Interview by Debbie Springer Horne, 1994 Donated by the Moweaqua Coal Mine Museum RESTRICTED - May be read, quoted or cited but cannot be reproduced.

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MOWEAQUA COAL MINE Leitch recalls Moweaqua, Illinois, family and farm life, childhood chores and games, death of her first husband at the 1932 Moweaqua Christmas Eve mine disaster, and her life after the disaster.

1 tape, 60 mins., 15 pp. Interview by Debbie Springer Horne, 1994 Donated by the Moweaqua Coal Mine Museum RESTRICTED: May be read, quoted or cited but cannot be reproduced.

Scope and Contents MOWEAQUA COAL MINE Novota, immigrant from Austria-Hungary, recalls family, immigration, and living in Chicago. He discusses Moweaqua, Illinois, home life, neighborhoods, chores and games, early television and electrical work, WWII army service, his father during WWI in Europe, coal mining unions, his work in the Moweaqua mine and the 1932 Christmas Eve mine disaster.2 tapes, 180 mins., 34 pp. Interview by Debbie Springer Horne, 1994 Donated by the Moweaqua Coal Mine...

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MOWEAQUA COAL MINE Smorado recalls Moweaqua, Illinois: family, childhood chores and games, father's work in the Moweaqua mine, the 1932 Christmas Eve mine disaster, and the following clean-up.

1 tape, 60 mins., 18 pp. Interview by Debbie Springer Horne, 1994 Donated by the Moweaqua Coal Mine Museum RESTRICTED: May be read, quoted or cited but cannot be reproduced.

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MOWEAQUA COAL MINE Tirpak recalls Moweaqua, Illinois: family, childhood games and chores, government relief during the Depression, father and brother's work in the Moweaqua mine, and the effects of the 1932 Christmas Eve mine disaster.

1 tape, 60 mins., 22 pp Interview by Debbie Springer Horne, 1994 Donated by the Moweaqua Coal Mine Museum RESTRICTED: May be read, quoted or cited but cannot be reproduced.