Oral history interview with George Goodspeed
name: label: Interviewee
content: Goodspeed, George, 1903-1997
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Goodspeed's Book Shop (Boston, Mass.)
topic: label: Occupation
content: Book dealers -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Prints -- Marketing -- Massachusetts -- Boston
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art 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: Interviewee
content: Goodspeed, George, 1903-1997
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: George Goodspeed (1903- 1997) is a book dealer from Boston, Mass.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Items (sound files Sound recording, digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 45 Pages (Transcript)
phystech: label: System Details
content: Originally recorded on 2 cassettes.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1987 Apr. 24-June 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.goodsp87
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 with George Goodspeed conducted 1987 Apr. 24-1987 June 3, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Goodspeed speaks of his business from the 1920s through to the present as a rare book, manuscript and print dealer; the antiquarian and topical (as opposed to aesthetic) emphasis of Goodspeed's print department; important clients; trends in taste; the market for prints.