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A. Gilbert Wright Oral History Interviews
Interview 4: July 7, 1983
Recording of Interview: Total Recording Time: 1.5 hours
Covers his youth, education, and first museum position at the Illinois State Museum, c. 1909-1940, including: his youth, living in the Carthage Jail Museum; early interests in museums, natural history, and taxidermy; volunteer work at the Carthage Coll...
Recording of Interview: Total Recording Time: 1.5 hours
Interview 3: June 28, 1983
Discusses Wright's career at the Smithsonian, publications and teaching at George Washington University, c. 1963-1978, including: reminiscences of Office of Exhibits Programs, especially accommodations in the Quonset hut and relations with taxidermists...
Transcript, pp. 144-197, of audiotape recording, 1.5 hours.
Transcript, pp. 40-89, of audiotape recording, 1.5 hours.
Recording of Interview: Total Recording Time: 1.5 hours
Discusses his career at the Illinois State Museum and Peabody Museum of Natural History, c. 1933-1948, focusing on: reminiscences of the staff of the ISM; his work on exhibits and the Guide to Exhibits in the 1930s; reminiscences of Coggeshall, includi...
Transcript, pp. 1-39, of audiotape recording, 1.0 hour.
Recording of Interview: Total Recording Time: 1.0 hour
Recording of Interview: Total Recording Time: 1.5 hours
Transcript, pp. 90-143, of audiotape recording, 1.5 hours.
Covers Wright's career at the Smithsonian, c. 1963-1975, focusing on: his arrival at the Smithsonian in 1963; work on the Exhibits Modernization Program in NMNH in the 1960s; working relations between the curatorial, exhibit design, and exhibit product...
Interview 5: November 15, 1983
Discusses his career as curator of exhibits at the Florida State Museum and chief of the Museum Planning Branch, Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, Missouri, c. 1953-1963, including: his appointment as Curator of Exhibits at the FSM in...
Transcript, pp. 198-252, of audiotape recording, 1.5 hours.
