Oral history interview with Margery Hoffman Smith
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 2 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Smith, Margery Hoffman, 1888-1981
label: Interviewer
content: Ferbraché, Lewis
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Timberline Lodge (Mount Hood, Or.)
label: Names
content: United States. Works Progress Administration
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Oregon
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Women artists
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: Smith, Margery Hoffman, 1888-1981
label: Interviewer
content: Ferbraché, Lewis
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Margery Hoffman Smith (1888-1981) was a painter, craftsman, and interior decorator from San Francisco, California.  Smith was art director for the Timberline Lodge project on Mount Hood, Oregon, which was built under the authority of the WPA in the 1940s. She became the assistant state director of the Federal Art Project in Oregon.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 45 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 April 10
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.smith64apr
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
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 Margery Hoffman Smith conducted 1964 April 10, by Lewis Ferbraché, for the Archives of American Art, at the artist's home, in San Francisco, California.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Discusses her involvement with the design of Timberline Lodge in Oregon for the Works Progress Administration.