Oral history interview with Amy Bess Miller
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 11 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Miller, Amy Bess Williams, 1912-2003
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Hancock Shaker Village
label: Names
content: Shakers
topic: label: Topic
content: Arts administrators -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Miller, Amy Bess Williams, 1912-2003
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Amy Bess Miller was the administrator at the Hancock Shaker Village in Hancock, Mass.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (sound files (1 hr., 11 min.), digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 22 Pages (Transcript)
phystech: label: System Details
content: Originally recorded on 1 cassette.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1985 July 10
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.miller85
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Amy Bess Miller conducted 1985 July 10, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Miller speaks of her awareness of the Shakers in her childhood, through visits to their communities; her further acquaintance with them, and her interest in collecting Shaker objects upon moving to Pittsfield, Mass. in the 1930s; her involvement in a group which purchased the Shakers' property in Hancock, Mass. in the late 1950s; restoration and educational programs developed at Hancock since then; current plans to establish a library and research center at Hancock.