Overview
Collection Information
Size: 1 Reel, ca. 280 items (on 1 microfilm reel)
Summary: Correspondence; writings, speeches and notes; clippings and other printed material; a list of requisitions for interior decoration; sketches; correspondence of Emerson J. Griffith, State Administrator for Oregon's Works Progress Administration; lyrics of George Natanson's song "Hail to Timberline"; and photographs of Griffith and Floyd Dell at Timberline Lodge. Also included is correspondence regarding the WPA crafts exhibit at the New York World's Fair.
Biographical/Historical Note
Margery Hoffman Smith (1888-1981) was a painter, craftsman, and interior decorator from San Francisco, California. Smith was art director for the Timberline Lodge project on Mount Hood, Oregon, which was built under the authority of the WPA in the 1940s. She became the assistant state director of the Federal Art Project in Oregon.
Provenance
Lent by Sarah Munro, 1982, who served as the Vice President of Friends of Timberline.
Language Note
English .
Location of Originals
- Originals returned to lender, Sarah Munro, after microfilming.
