Oral history interview with Olga Burroughs
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 30 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Burroughs, Olga
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Mary Fuller
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (Calif.)
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Sacramento Art Center
label: Names
content: Bufano, Beniamino, 1898-1970
label: Names
content: Kingman, Dong, 1911-2000
label: Names
content: Oldfield, Otis, 1890-1969
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- California
label: Topic
content: Women arts administrators
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
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: Burroughs, Olga
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Mary Fuller
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Olga Burroughs was an art administrator in Sacramento, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 10 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 October 25
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.burrou64
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: 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.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Olga Burroughs conducted 1964 October 25, by Mary McChesney.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Burroughs speaks of the founding of the Sacramento Art Center; the government's support for the Center; and artists who were affiliated with it, including Dong Kingman, Otis Oldfield and Beniamino Bufano.