General Subjects
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960
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content: Holger Cahill papers
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content: Holger Cahill papers / Series 3: Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1934-1943, 1953
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.cahiholg, Subseries 3.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This subseries contains general records of the FAP including correspondence and memoranda, information on administrators, advisory committee records, employment statistics, manuals and reports.

Records relating to administrators include biographical sketches and/or photographs of the following FAP administrators: Donald Bear, Thaddeus Clapp, D. S. Defenbacher, Audrey McMahon, Eric Mose, Concetta Scaravaglione, Alexander Stavenitz, and George Thorp. The records include photos of McMahon, Mose, Scaravaglione, Stavenitz, and Thorp.

Advisory committe records include lists of committee members for the Federal Music Project, the Federal Theatre Project, and the Federal Art Project; correspondence related to the selection of members for the Fine and Applied Arts Committee of the FAP; and information (such as names, addresses and occupations) concerning members of FAP advisory committees organized by state.

General files include reports on various aspects of the FAP and general program operations and accomplishments, program descriptions and summaries, procedural documents and administrative forms. These are followed by lists of FAP projects, a notebook documenting FAP activities in the southern states and a report on the FAP's activities to 1939.

Also found here are records relating to support and criticism of the FAP, the war effort and "negro art" including memoranda, reports, a typescript of a speech by Thomas C. Parker, press releases and printed material.