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Selma H. Burke was an African American teacher and sculptress who designed the portrait for the Roosevelt dime and who founded the Selma Burke Art Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The collection consists of 5 audiocassette tapes of interviews conducted by Clifton H. Johnson with Burke in her home in Pennsylvania from May 7-9, 1991. A separate interview conducted on February 20, 1991 is present on a VHS videotape.

Scope and Contents The papers of Elizabeth Catlett, sculptor, graphic artist, teacher, and political activist, consist of correspondence, audiotape cassettes, biographical data, news clippings, notes, photographs, exhibition catalogs, posters, writings, and a reel-to-reel film. The papers have been arranged into three general groups: correspondence, non-correspondence and oversized items, and is arranged alphabetically according to topic and chronologically within each file unit. Non-correspondence includes...

Content Description The papers of painter, sculptor, and photographer William Edward Taylor includes correspondence, honors and awards, programs, and a videocassette of a 1983 interview with Taylor on WFYI (PBS) in Indianapolis. Correspondents include: Alvin R. Bergeron, Donald Elder, Susan L. Cahn (of the Jewish Community Center of Indianapolis), and Donald F. Rees (Lay President of the Lutheran Church Council). Additional materials include research for the exhibition and publication entitled "A...