Margery Hoffman Smith papers relating to Timberline Lodge, Oregon

Object Details

Creator: Smith, Margery Hoffman, 1888-1981
Names: New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.); Timberline Lodge (Mount Hood, Or.); United States. Works Progress Administration; Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969; Griffith, Emerson J.

Provenance: Lent by Sarah Munro, 1982, who served as the Vice President of Friends of Timberline.

Biographical / Historical: 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.

Existence and Location of Copies: 35mm microfilm reel 2550 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.

Existence and Location of Originals: Originals returned to lender, Sarah Munro, after microfilming.

Scope and Contents: 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.

Restrictions: The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.