Oral history interview with Jack and Irene Delano
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav file. Duration is 2 hr., 22 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Delano, Jack
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Interviewee
content: Delano, Irene, 1919-
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: United States. Farm Security Administration.Historical Section.Photographs
label: Names
content: Stryker, Roy Emerson, 1893-1975
topic: label: Topic
content: Documentary photography
label: Topic
content: Photographers -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts project, which includes over 400 interviews of artists, administrators, historians, and others involved with the federal government's art programs and the activities of the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s and early 1940s.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Delano, Jack
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Interviewee
content: Delano, Irene, 1919-
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Jack Delano (1914-1997) was a photographer from Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 63 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 June 12
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.delano65
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 available on-line.
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Jack and Irene Delano in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, conducted 1965 June 12, by Richard Doud, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Delano speaks of his arts background and his background in photography; an early project photographing Pennsylvania coal miners; how he became associated with the Farm Security Administration; Roy Stryker's guidance; the growth of the project; how the FSA affected him personally; problems he had on assignments; significant experiences in the field; Stryker as an administrator; some areas he covered and his memories of them; the value of the project; his post-FSA career. Delano's wife, Irene, is also present and speaks of her own contribution to the project.