Margery Hoffman Smith papers relating to Timberline Lodge, Oregon
name: label: Creator
content: Smith, Margery Hoffman, 1888-1981
label: Names
content: New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Timberline Lodge (Mount Hood, Or.)
label: Names
content: United States. Works Progress Administration
label: Names
content: Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969
label: Names
content: Griffith, Emerson J.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Interior decorators -- Oregon
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Oregon
label: Topic
content: New Deal art
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Handicraft
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent by Sarah Munro, 1982, who served as the Vice President of Friends of Timberline.
creator: label: Creator
content: Smith, Margery Hoffman, 1888-1981
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Margery Hoffman Smith (1888-1981) was a painter, craftsman, and interior decorator from San Francisco, California.  Smith was art director for the Timberline Lodge project on Mount Hood, Oregon, which was built under the authority of the WPA in the 1940s. She became the assistant state director of the Federal Art Project in Oregon.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Reel (ca. 280 items (on 1 microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1939-1948
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.smitmarg
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 2550 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to lender, Sarah Munro, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence; writings, speeches and notes; clippings and other printed material; a list of requisitions for interior decoration; sketches; correspondence of Emerson J. Griffith, State Administrator for Oregon's Works Progress Administration; lyrics of George Natanson's song "Hail to Timberline"; and photographs of Griffith and Floyd Dell at Timberline Lodge. Also included is correspondence regarding the WPA crafts exhibit at the New York World's Fair.