| Title: |
Reminiscences of Holger Cahill
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP87-A3
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Individual Interview List Oral History Project
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| Description: |
Early life in North Dakota, wanderings and odd jobs; arrival in New York City, newspaper work, Greenwich Village; New York art world in the 1920s; folk art; Americana; collecting; Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; politics in art; the Depression; relief for artists; Federal Arts Project; New York World's Fair; art, especially abstract expressionism, since 1943. Oral history includes brief interviews with Dorothy Canning Miller (Mrs. Miller) and Clair Laning.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 622 leaves
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open. Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1975. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information. Microfiche copy available for purchase. (Columbia University oral history collection, part II, published by Meckler Publishing, Westport, CT).
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1957 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Cahill, Holger, 1893-1960
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1893
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| Speaker occupation: |
Art director; Writer
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| Age at speaking: |
64
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| Document date: |
1957
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| Interviewer: |
Pring, Joan
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| Locations discussed: |
North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Art, Modern--20th century; Authors; Depressions--1929--United States; Federal aid to the arts; Journalism; North America; Oral history; United States; United States--Politics and government--1933-1945
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Cahill, Holger, 1893-1960; Laning, Clair; Miller, Dorothy Canning, 1904-; New Deal, 1933-1939
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0018099-13542
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