Oral history interview with Margery Hoffman Smith
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 45 min.
label: General
content: Sound quality is extremely poor.
name: label: Creator
content: Smith, Margery Hoffman, 1888-1981
label: Interviewer
content: Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-1979
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Timberline Lodge (Mount Hood, Or.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Design
label: Topic
content: Designers -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women designers
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: Creator
content: Smith, Margery Hoffman, 1888-1981
label: Interviewer
content: Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-1979
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Margery Hoffman Smith (1888-1981) was a painter, craftsman, and interior decorator from San Francisco, California.  Smith was art director for the Timberline Lodge project on Mount Hood, Oregon, which was built under the authority of the WPA in the 1940s. She became the assistant state director of the Federal Art Project in Oregon.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 40 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1961
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.smith61
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The original transcript was edited. In 2021 the Archives retranscribed the original audio and attempted to create a verbatim transcript. This interview was audited and edited by Allison Tracy-Taylor in 2025.
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 Margery Hoffman Smith conducted in 1961 by Harlan B. Phillips for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Smith speaks of her work with the Federal Art Project in Oregon, working on the design for Timberline Lodge, a ski lodge built under the authority of the WPA in the 1940s.