Oral history interview with Ramona Solberg

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Oral history interview with Ramona Solberg

2001 March 23

An interview of Ramona Solberg conducted 2001 March 23, by Vicki Halper, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, in Solberg's apartment, Seattle, Washington.

Sound recording: 3 sound cassettes (3 hr.) : analog.Transcript: 35 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8261001

Archives of American Art

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