Interview with Roy E. Stryker
odd: label: General
content: Handwritten note on reel containers: Roy Stryker talks for International Harvester Company.
label: General
content: Date of circa January 1960 was derived from information received by a researcher who located information in the interview, transcribed here: "... in this latest Infinity he [Peter Pollack] quotes you as saying 'a picture should not be a precious thing." This reference corresponds to an article by Peter Pollock with the Stryker quote in the December 1959 issue of Infinity. The next issue of Infinity came out January 1960.
name: label: Creator
content: Stryker, Roy Emerson, 1893-1975
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Provenance unknown.
creator: label: Creator
content: Stryker, Roy Emerson, 1893-1975
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Director of the Farm Security Administration Historical Section; Washington, D.C. Under Stryker the Photographic project of the FSA documented the drought, poverty and despair of rural and urban America during the Depression.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Sound tapes (7 in.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1960 Jan
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.stryroyl
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tapes
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Stryker talks with an unidentified interviewer about his work for the Farm Security Administration and its photographic activities during the Great Depression.