Oral history interview with Virgil Ellsworth Poling
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 41 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Poling, Virgil Ellsworth, 1908-2001
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: School of American Craftsmen (Dartmouth College)
label: Names
content: United States. Agency for International Development
topic: label: Topic
content: Artisans -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Poling, Virgil Ellsworth, 1908-2001
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Virgil Ellsworth Poling (1908-2001) was a craftsman and art administrator from Little Deer Isle, Maine.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (sound files, digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 30 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1980 February 8
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.poling80
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 Virgil Poling conducted 1980 February 8, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art. Poling speaks of the School of American Craftsmen in its early years at Dartmouth College; the creation of a crafts curriculum at Dartmouth during the 1940s and 1950s; and working as a field administrator of crafts and marketing programs for the Agency for International Development in Nigeria, Korea, and Indochina, during the 1960s and 1970s.