Professional Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Poling, Virgil Ellsworth, 1908-2001
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content: Virgil Ellsworth Poling papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-2, OV 3-4)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1939-1973
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.polivirg, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The series consists of Poling's professional files documenting his activities outside of his work at USAID. Poling served as Director of Student Workshops at Dartmouth College from 1941 to 1963. The files include photographs, faculty records, material on training of veterans workshops, architectural plans of the student workshop, and other material related to workshop programs. Other files contain professional correspondence, records for the American Industrial Arts Association, photographs of furnishings and unidentified people in a workshop, and printed materials including clippings regarding Poling's work, School for American Craftsmen material, and a few miscellaneous items related to crafts. The correspondence files also include USAID material.