Item Information
Title: Photograph of woodworking class making looms at Melrose Federal Art Center, Melrose, New Mexico
Date: 193-
Physical Details: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Description: One black and white photograph from the Works Progress Administration Art Program from the late 1930s. Photograph depicts a youth woodworking class making looms for weaving at the Melrose Federal Art Center in Melrose, New Mexico.
Identification (stamped and handwritten on verso: W.P.A.; 5; Federal Sponsored Community Art Center Name: Melrose Federal Art Center; Address: Melrose, N.M.; Subject: Woodworking Class Making Looms for Weaving; Please give credit line to Work Progress Administration
Description (typescript) on attached note verso: Textile design is an essential activity at the community art center. These boys in the woodworking shop at Melrose, New Mexico Art Center are making looms for use in their WPA Art class. (Photograph- WPA Art Program)
Creator: United States. Work Projects Administration. Art Program
Forms part of: Holger Cahill papers, 1910-1993, bulk 1910-1960
Rights Statement: Current copyright status is undetermined
Citation Information: United States. Work Projects Administration. Art Program. Photograph of woodworking class making looms at Melrose Federal Art Center, Melrose, New Mexico, 193-. Holger Cahill papers, 1910-1993. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Digital ID: 19999