Oral history interview with William Abbenseth
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 54 minutes.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Abbenseth, William, 1898-1972
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: Group f.64
label: Names
content: Index of American Design
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Cunningham, Ben, 1904-1975
label: Names
content: Dannenbaum, Ray
label: Names
content: Danysh, Joseph A., 1906-1982
label: Names
content: Hirsch, Hy
label: Names
content: Ryan, Beatrice Judd
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.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Abbenseth, William, 1898-1972
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Mary Fuller
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: William Abbenseth (1898-1972) was a photographer in San Francisco, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 13 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 November 23
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.abbens64
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
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of William Abbenseth conducted 1964 November 23, by Mary Fuller McChesney, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Abbenseth discusses his training in photography; his WPA assignments including photomurals of San Francisco architecture, for the Index of American Design, and the California Housing Authority, the Artists at Work series, documentation of the New York World's Fair, and other projects; his relationship with Benjamin F. Cummingham, Ray Dannenbaum, Joseph A. Danysh, Hy Hirsch, and Beatrice Judd Ryan; and his involvement with the f/64 Group.