Oral history interview with Henry W. Hough
name: label: Interviewee
content: Hough, Henry W.
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Federal Writers' Project (Colo.)
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: United States. Works Progress Administration
topic: 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: Hough, Henry W.
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: State Director of Federal Writers' Project, Colorado.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recordings: (30 min.), 7 in.)
label: Extent
content: 9 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 June 11
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hough64
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
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 Henry W. Hough conducted by Richard Doud 1964 June 11, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Hough speaks of his journalism background; his involvement with the WPA Federal Writers' Project writing a guidebook for the state of Colorado; and the lasting benefits of the WPA's programs.