Oral history interview with Alice Rooney
name: label: Interviewee
content: Rooney, Alice, 1926-2019
label: Interviewer
content: Herman, Lloyd E.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Women arts administrators
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 administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Rooney, Alice, 1926-2019
label: Interviewer
content: Herman, Lloyd E.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Alice Rooney (1926-2019) was an arts administrator in Seattle, Wash. Lloyd E. Herman (1936- ) is director emeritus of the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9 Items (Sound recording, master: 9 sound files (2 hr., 42 min.), digital, wav)
label: Extent
content: 61 Pages (Transcript)
phystech: label: System Details
content: Recorded on Edirol R-09HR
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2011 Aug. 5-12
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.rooney11
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 with Alice Rooney conducted 2011 Aug. 5 and 12, by Lloyd E. Herman, for the Archives of American Art, at Rooney's home, in Seattle, Wash.