Oral history interview with Louis Clark Jones
name: label: Interviewee
content: Jones, Louis C. (Louis Clark), 1908-1990
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Folk art
label: Topic
content: Museum directors -- New York (State) -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are 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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Jones, Louis C. (Louis Clark), 1908-1990
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Louis Clark Jones (1908-1990) was a museum director from Cooperstown, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Items (sound files Sound recording, digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 32 Pages (Transcript)
phystech: label: System Details
content: Originally recorded on 2 cassettes.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1984 Aug. 17
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.jones84
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
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 of Louis Clark Jones conducted 1984 Aug. 17, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Jones discusses the development of the graduate program and administration of the New York State Historical Association and the Farmers Museum at Cooperstown, a survey carried out with his wife on folk art in the United States and Canada, and approaches to the study of folk culture, including conflict among scholars.