Personal Business
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Fischer, Bernard, 1900-1986
label: Collection Creator
content: Fischer, Phyllis Potter
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content: Bernard and Phyllis Fischer papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.6 Linear Feet (Box 2)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1928-1961
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.fiscbern, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The personal business series documents the Fischers careers through financial material along with Phyllis Fischer's Works Progress Administration records, professional organization memberships and Bernard Fischer's teaching records. Financial records include weekly planners, account ledgers, price lists and sale records; the WPA files include numerous reports co-written by Mrs. Fischer on the project's fieldwork in crafts educational initiative and employee records detailing her job position and responsibility. The teaching records document Mr. Fischer's time as a ceramic's teacher at a New York City junior high school and as guest instructor at the Brooklyn Museum Art School through performance evaluations, schedules, correspondence and lesson plans.