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- Title
Monongah Revisited: Sources, Body Parts, and Ethnography.
- Authors
Tropea, Joseph L.
- Abstract
The article discusses the explosions at the Monongah, West Virginia, Fairmont Coal Company mines on December 6, 1907. It discusses the historical documentation and possible misinformation concerning the incident in the records of the coal company and the organization known as the Monongah Mines Relief Committee (MMRC), the importance of ethnography in accounting for historical errors in the narrative concerning body and body-part removal from the mines, and the story of explosion survivor Peter Urban.
- Subjects
WEST Virginia; UNITED States; MONONGAH Mines Disaster, Monongah, W. Va., 1907; ETHNOLOGY; MINES &; mineral resources; URBAN, Peter; HISTORICAL research; COAL industry; WEST Virginia state history to 1950; ACCIDENTS
- Publication
West Virginia History, 2013, Vol 7, Issue 2, p63
- ISSN
0043-325X
- Publication type
Article