Oral history interview with Charlotte Aiken and Helen Wool
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hrs., 27 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Aiken, Charlotte, C.
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Interviewee
content: Wool, Helen D.
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: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Topic
content: Women arts administrators
label: Topic
content: Documentary photography
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: 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: Aiken, Charlotte, C.
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Interviewee
content: Wool, Helen D.
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Charlotte Aiken was an accountant and Helen Wool was Roy Stryker's secretary in the Farm Security Administration; both are from Washington, D.C. Stryker was director of the FSA photographic survey of rural and urban America during the depression.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 56 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 April 17
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.aiken64
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Charlotte Aiken and Helen Wool conducted 1964 April 17, by Richard Doud, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Both women discuss working for the Farm Security Administration under Roy Stryker.