This repository 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.
The digital collection for the Kennecott Miner Records is available here
Initial transcription for these records was supported by a faculty grant from Digital Matters, University of Utah
| id | name | record number | data employed | nationality | age | height | weight | hair | eyes | marital status | reason terminated | thumbnail url | record url | record download url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | last name, first name | number | date (various) | text | number (years) | number (inches) | number (lbs) | text | text | text | text | url | url | url |
The finding aid for this data set can be found here
In some cases, the Kennecott Miner Records may contain insensitive and offensive language. The data in the cards has been transcribed as it was written during the time period the cards were created.