Charles Hapgood papers
name: label: Creator
content: Hapgood, Charles
label: Names
content: Collier, John, 1884-1968
label: Names
content: D'Harnoncourt, Rene, 1901-1968
label: Names
content: Hudgens, Robert Watts, 1896-1973
label: Names
content: Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
label: Names
content: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Massachusetts
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- Massachusetts
label: Topic
content: American studio craft movement
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was transferred from the NCFA Library, Smithsonian Institution on June 6, 1979.
creator: label: Creator
content: Hapgood, Charles
setName: label: See more items in
content: Charles Hapgood papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of educator and arts administrator Charles Hapgood measure 0.4 linear feet and date from 1938 to 1950. The majority of the collection relates to Hapgood's role as the executive secretary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Crafts Commission working to establish a national crafts plan. The collection includes correspondence, reports, notes on meetings and conferences, and research material in files for William Boogar, John Collier (Commissioner of Indian Affairs), René d'Harnoncourt, R. W. Hudgens (Farm Security Administration), Mary LaFollette, Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt, Albert Wood, and others.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Charles Hapgood (1904-1982) was an educator and arts administrator in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Hapgood was born to writers Hutchins Hapgood and Neith Boyce. In 1929, he received a master's degree in history from Harvard University. From the mid-1940s to 1967, he taught history at several colleges including Keystone College, Springfield College, and New England College. In the years before World War II Hapgood served as executive secretary of the Crafts Commission under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, working to establish a national crafts plan that would operate similarly to the Federal Art Project. The efforts of the Craft Commission came to a standstill, however, with the outbreak of the war.

Hapgood died in 1982 in Greenfield, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1938-1950
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hapgchar
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Due to the small size of this collection the papers are arranged as one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed, and a finding aid prepared by Sarah Mundy in 2022.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of educator and arts administrator Charles Hapgood measure 0.4 linear feet and date from 1938 to 1950. The majority of the collection relates to Hapgood's role as the executive secretary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Crafts Commission working to establish a national crafts plan. The collection includes correspondence, reports, notes on meetings and conferences, and research material in files for William Boogar, John Collier (Commissioner of Indian Affairs), René d'Harnoncourt, R. W. Hudgens (Farm Security Administration), Mary LaFollette, Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt, Albert Wood, and others.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Also in the Archives of American Art is an interview with Miriam Hapgood DeWitt conducted 1987-1988, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.