Oral history interview with J. Fred Woell

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Oral history interview with J. Fred Woell

2001 June 6-2002 January 19

An interview of J. Fred Woell conducted 2001 June 6-2002 January 19, by Donna Gold, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, in the artist's home and studio, Deer Isle, Maine.

Sound recording: 6 sound cassettes (ca. 5 hr.) : analog.Transcript: 75 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8271813

Archives of American Art

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