Oral history interview with C. B. (Calvin Benhan) Baldwin
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 5 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Baldwin, Calvin Benham, 1902-1975
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
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
label: Names
content: Stryker, Roy Emerson, 1893-1975
label: Names
content: Tugwell, Rexford G. (Rexford Guy), 1891-1979
topic: label: Topic
content: Documentary photography -- United States
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: Baldwin, Calvin Benham, 1902-1975
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: C. B. (Calvin Benhan) Baldwin (1902-1975) was an administrator with the Farm Security Administration. The Farm Security Administration, under its Historic Section photographed the harsh living conditions of poverty-stricken rural and urban America during the late 1930s through the 1940s.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 31 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 February 25
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.baldwi65
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript: 35mm microfilm reel 3418 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of C.B. Baldwin conducted 1965 February 25, by Richard K. Doud, for the Archives of American Art. Baldwin speaks of his family's influence on his development; working in Washington, D.C. with Rexford Tugwell for the Department of Agriculture; the New Deal projects which led to the formation of the Farm Security Administration; the photography project of the Farm Security Administration; finding photographers for the project; the usefulness of the work produced by the FSA. He recalls Roy Stryker.