Oral history interview with Dows Dunham
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 1 hr., 33 min.
name: label: Creator
content: Dunham, Dows, 1890-
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Museum curators -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Creator
content: Dunham, Dows, 1890-
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Dows Dunham (1890-1984) was a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 26 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1971 October 19
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.dunham71
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 Dows Dunham conducted 1971 October 19, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Discusses his development of an interest in art as a young man and his interest in Egyptian art.