Oral history interview with Harry Hewes and Jay Du Von
odd: label: General
content: An interview of Thomas C. Parker conducted by H. Phillips is also on this tape.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Hewes, Harry
label: Interviewer
content: Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-1979
label: Interviewee
content: Du Von, Jay
label: Names
content: Federal Music Project (U.S.)
label: Names
content: Federal Writers' Project
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
topic: label: Occupation
content: Administrators -- United States -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview 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: Hewes, Harry
label: Interviewer
content: Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-1979
label: Interviewee
content: Du Von, Jay
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Harry Hewes and Jay Du Von were administrators in Illinois and Washington, D.C. Du Von was involved with the Federal Writers' Project and Hewes was involved with the Federal Music Project.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recording, 7 in.)
label: Extent
content: 65 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 Oct
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hewes64
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
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 Harry Hewes and Jay du Von conducted 1964 Oct., by Harlan Phillips, for the Archives of American Art New Deal and the Arts Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Du Von speaks of being director of the Writers' Project in Iowa; Supervisor of Projects in Mid-West; Director of Project in Illinois; assistant to Lawrence Morris of Federal Project No. 1 in Washington; describes his position; of State guide books; and of the poor publicity in the early days of the WPA. Hewes speaks of being press man for Toscanni and Cleveland Orchestra; press chief for Mikolai Sokoloff in Washington for music project, 1936-1941; his background; personnel; music programs and orchestras; WPA programs; administration problems, strikes, politics, unions, general benefits; and of war efforts and the end of the WPA.