Oral history interview with Wallace Kirkman Harrison, 1978

Name: Harrison, Wallace K. (Wallace Kirkman), 1895-1981 (Interviewee); Daum, Raymond L (Interviewer)
Title: Oral history interview with Wallace Kirkman Harrison, 1978
Other Titles: Reminiscences of Wallace Kirkman Harrison, 1978
Abstract: Childhood, Worcester, Mass.; education; work with McKim, Mead & White, New York, N.Y.; experiences with Navy, World War I; architectural studies in France; Penn Power & Light design project; design for 1939 World's Fair; evaluation of atelier system of architectural education; teaching experiences at Columbia University; architectural design work on Radio City Music Hall, Rockefeller Center complex , Metropolitan Opera, United Nations facilities
Collection Name: Individual interviews oral history collection
Subjects: Architects; Architecture; Architecture--Study and teaching; Architecture--United States; Harrison, Wallace K. (Wallace Kirkman), 1895-1981
Format: oral histories; sound recordings
Genre: Interviews
Date: 1978

Physical Description: sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit)
Note (Biographical): Architect; interviewee d. 1981
Note (Funding): Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note: Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010; Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit; Interviewed by Raymond L. Daum
Language: English
Library Location: Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Catalog Record: 7025217
Also In: Oral History Archives at Columbia; Time-Based Media; Time-Based Media
Persistent URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/h6x4-3s65
Related URLs: Available digital content for this interview.