Interviews with Italian Americans in Utah
Collection
Identifier: MS 0516
Scope and Contents
The Utah Endowment for the Humanities funded the Oral History Institute (OHI) of Salt Lake City to conduct interviews with members of different ethnic minorities and racial groups. This particular series of interviews with Italians took place in 1987. Events recalled by the interviewees span the time period from the 1880s to 1987. Common themes within the interviews are family life, work, religion, discrimination, and relations with the community, and in particular the Mormon establishment in Utah. Of interest are interviews that relate experiences during the 1922 Carbon County Coal Miner's strike and also reminiscences of the 1922 Carbon County Castlegate Mine Explosion.
Dates
- 1987
Creator
- University of Utah. Oral History Institute (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
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Organizational Note
The Oral History Institute, located in Salt Lake City, Utah, began a project in 1982 to document the interaction between the dominant culture and various minority cultures in Utah. Interviews were conducted with members of individual ethnic and cultural groups including members of the dominant white culture. The project was conducted under a grant from the Utah Endowment for the Humanities.
Extent
0.75 Linear Feet
Abstract
The Utah Endowment for the Humanities funded the Oral History Institute (OHI) of Salt Lake City to conduct interviews with members of different ethnic minorities and racial groups. This particular series of interviews with Italians took place in 1987. Events recalled by the interviewees span the time period from the 1880s to 1987. Common themes within the interviews are family life, work, religion, discrimination, and relations with the community, and in particular the Mormon establishment in Utah. Of interest are interviews that relate experiences during the 1922 Carbon County Coal Miner's strike and also reminiscences of the 1922 Carbon County Castlegate Mine Explosion.
Separated Materials
Audio cassette tapes and photographs were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.
Processing Information
Processed by Janet Smoak and Karen Carver in 1990 and 2005.
- Catholics -- Utah -- Interviews
- Children of immigrants -- Utah -- Interviews
- Coal mines and mining -- Utah -- Accidents
- Immigrants -- Utah -- Interviews
- Italian Americans -- Utah -- Cultural assimilation
- Italian Americans -- Utah -- Interviews
- Oral histories
- Oral histories
- Social Classes
- Strikes and lockouts -- Coal mining -- Utah
- Utah -- Emigration and immigration
- Utah -- Ethnic relations
Creator
- University of Utah. Oral History Institute (Organization)
- Title
- Inventory of the interviews with Italian Americans in Utah, 1987
- Author
- Finding aid preapred by Janet Smoak and Karen Carver
- Date
- © 2005 (last modified: 2018)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid encoded in English in Latin script.
Repository Details
Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Repository
Contact:
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu