Oral history interview with Leonard Thiessen
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 18 min.
label: General
content: An unrelated interview of Sylvester Jerry conducted by H. Phillips is also on this tape.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Thiessen, Leonard, 1902-1989
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
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Iowa -- Des Moines -- 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: Thiessen, Leonard, 1902-1989
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bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Leonard Thiessen (1902-1989) was an art administrator from Des Moines, Iowa.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 36 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 June 10
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.thiess65
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Leonard Thiessen conducted 1965 June 10, by Harlan Phillips, for the Archives of American Art.