Kahn, Emily Mason
Size: Sound recordings: 1 sound cassette (45 min.) : analog
Transcript: 36 p.
Format: Transferred from original acetate tape reel. The recording ends before the conclusion of the interview. Sound quality is poor.
Summary: An interview of Emily Mason Kahn conducted 1965 Jan. 27, by Harlan Phillips, for the Archives of American Art.
Emily Mason Kahn was an administrator on the Federal Music Project from New York, N.Y.
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.
Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Emily Mason Kahn, 1965 Jan. 27. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
