Walter Heil papers
name: label: Creator
content: Heil, Walter, 1890-1973
label: Creator
content: M.H. de Young Memorial Museum
label: Creator
content: Public Works of Art Project
place: label: Place
content: United States -- Social conditions -- California -- San Francisco
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- California -- San Francisco
label: Occupation
content: Museum directors -- California -- San Francisco
label: Topic
content: New Deal, 1933-1939 -- California
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts -- California -- San Francisco
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Mrs. Leyland Stevens, daughter of Walter Heil, donated the papers in 1974. In 1983, 2 engagement calendars and 5 items of correspondence were found at the M.H. De Young Museum and turned over to the Archives. In 1964, Lewis Ferbrache loaned some material for microfilming on reel NDA 3; originals were returned to Lewis Ferbrache after microfilming.
creator: label: Creator
content: Heil, Walter, 1890-1973
label: Creator
content: M.H. de Young Memorial Museum
label: Creator
content: Public Works of Art Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Director of the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, Calif., 1933-196 and the Region 15--Northern California, Nevada, and Utah--director of the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5.6 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1929-1973
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.heilwalt
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel NDA 3 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reel NDA 3: Originals returned to Lewis Ferbrache after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: UNMICROFILMED: Correspondence; photographs; engagement calendars; printed and manuscript material; catalogues; business material.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Reel NDA 3: Two notebooks containing names and addresses of San Francisco and Bay area artists interested in being employed on the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP); payroll data; artists submitting work ideas; reports of artists; record of sketches and paintings submitted by Bay area artists, Dec. 1933-Jan. 1934; report of the Regional Committee of PWAP (Region 15)--Northern California discussing the work executed for the Project in Northern California, Nevada, Utah, and Hawaii; and miscellaneous correspondence.