Oral history interview with Marshall Moxom
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 39 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Moxom, Marshall, 1916-
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Mary Fuller
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Photographers -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews
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.
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 administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Moxom, Marshall, 1916-
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Mary Fuller
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Marshall Moxom (1916-2007) was a photographer from San Francisco, Calif.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 15 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 June 17
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.moxom65
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The original transcript was edited. In 2025 the Archives retranscribed the original audio and attempted to create a verbatim transcript. This interview was audited and edited by Ellen Brooks in 2025.
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 Marshall Moxom conducted 1965 June 17, by Mary Fuller McChesney, for the Archives of American Art. Moxom discusses his work in San Francisco and his involvement in the National Youth Administration photography project.