Oral history interview with Jasper Deeter
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 34 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Deeter, Jasper, -1972
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Federal Theater Project (N.J.)
label: Names
content: Federal Theater Project (Pa.)
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Provincetown Players
label: Names
content: Gilpin, Charles S. (Charles Sidney), 1878-1930
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Actors -- Pennsylvania -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Directors (performing arts) -- Pennsylvania -- Interviews
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: Deeter, Jasper, -1972
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Jasper Deeter (died 1972) was a producer, actor, teacher, and Federal Theater Project director in Media, Pennsylvania. Named director of FTP in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 22 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.deeter64
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 Jasper Deeter conducted by Richard Doud in 1964 for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Discusses theater experience in Greenwich Village and Provincetown; Depression-era theater in Pennsylvania and New Jersey; and comments on contemporary theater.