Oral history interview with Lina Steele 1996 November 20.

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Oral history interview with Lina Steele 1996 November 20.

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Lina Steele became a museum aide at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., in 1961. Thereafter she worked briefly in the sales shop and the education department before joining the department responsible for the Index of American Design, where she served until her retirement in 1984. Steele described the work of the Index office, in particular the exhibitions that were available for loan to other museums. She recalled organizing and mounting exhibitions of Index renderings and working with researchers who used the Index. She described two special projects that relied heavily on Index resources--a two-volume publication on American design and a microfiche catalog to the Index collection.

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Steele, Lina,

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Ritchie, Annette

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Art museum; Washington, D.C. From the description of National Gallery of Art exhibition catalog, 1910. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122553233 ...

Index of American Design

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The Index of American Design was a part of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, which gathered information on significant artifacts in 35 states in the late 1930s and early 1940s. In Texas the effort was headquartered in San Antonio. Original watercolors of the artifacts were housed at the National Gallery of Art. From the description of Index of American Design Texas artifacts records collection 1937-1956. (University of Texas Libraries). W...