This dataset provides access to data from personnel records of miner employment from 1900–1919. Records from the Utah Copper Company are handwritten and contain the following employee information: name, date employed, address, dependents, age, weight, height, eyes, hair, gender, and nationality. Data has been transcribed and released as a .tsv (Tab Separated Values) file. Technical metadata has been redacted.

Last modified

• 11/05/2024

Creator

• Neatrour, Anna
• Wittmann, Rachel Jane

Subject

• mining camps
• miners
• Bingham Copper Mine (Utah)
• copper miners

Language

• English

Identifier

• https://doi.org/10.7278/S50d-7zxh-42hf

Keyword

• mining
• copper miners
• Bingham Copper Mine
• labor records

Date created

• 1900-01-01 to 1919-12-31 (original data)
• 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31 (transcribed)

Location

• Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Related url

•  https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/article/view/11101/9837
•  https://collections.lib.utah.edu/search?facet_setname_s=uum_kmr

Resource type

• Dataset

Source

• Library of Congress

License

• CCO – As the data author, you are choosing to place your data into the public domain.