Oral history interview with Jacob Baker
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 41 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Baker, Jacob
label: Interviewer
content: Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-1979
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: Baker, Mildred, 1905-
label: Names
content: Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- New Jersey -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
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: Baker, Jacob
label: Interviewer
content: Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-1979
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Jacob Baker (1895-1967) was an art administrator in Newark, New Jersey.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 85 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1963 September 25
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bakerj63
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 available on line at http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/bakerj63.htm
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Jacob Baker conducted by Harlan Phillips on 1963 September 25 for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Baker speaks of his training as an industrial engineer and his early employment history, including involvement with various New Deal bureaus; becoming assistant administrator of the WPA, and his activities; the various WPA projects and their functions. He recalls Holger Cahill and Mildred Baker.