Oral history interview with Sam and Charlotte Rothstein Ross, 1965 May 10

Collection Information

Size: Transcript: 34 pages.

Format: Originally recorded on 3 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 46 min.

Summary: An interview of Sam and Charlotte Rothstein Ross conducted 1965 May 10, by Betty Hoag, for the Archives of American Art New Deal and the Arts Project.
Tape 1 and part of tape 2 is an interview with Charlotte Bergman Rothstein Ross; tape 2 and part of tape 3 is an interview with Sam Ross; tape 3 is a joint interview.

Biographical/Historical Note

Sam Ross (1912- ) is a writer, Charlotte Bergman Rothstein Ross (1912- ) is a painter; they live in California.

Provenance

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.

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Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Sam and Charlotte Rothstein Ross, 1965 May 10. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.