Oral history interview with Herbert J. Brown
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 47 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Brown, Herbert J.
label: Interviewer
content: Swift, Geoffrey
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Federal art project (Mass.)
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Massachusetts -- Natick -- 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: Brown, Herbert J.
label: Interviewer
content: Swift, Geoffrey
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Herbert J. Brown was an art administrator from Natick, Massachusetts. Assistant State Director for Federal Art Project, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 22 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 November 29
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.brown65
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Herbert J. Brown conducted 1965 November 29, by Geoffrey Swift, for the Archives of American Art. Brown speaks of his background in music, duties in the Federal Art Project of Massachusetts, artists and their works associated with the Project, the Index of American Design, and government support of artists.