Dr. Juanita Patience Moss Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History
Dr. Juanita Patience Moss Oral History Interview: Date: November 3, 2016. Created by: National Museum of African American History and Culture, American, founded 2003. Recorded by: Patrick Telepictures, Inc., American.
The object in the museum catalogue
The oral history consists of 2016.129.17.1a and 2016.129.17.2a: two versions (unedited, and edited) of a single digital video recording.
Dr. Juanita Patience Moss was interviewed as part of the NMAAHC Donor Oral History Collection. Dr. Moss donated some of her father, C. Edgar Price's equipment and art work to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
In this oral history interview Dr. Juanita Patience Moss discusses her father C. Edgar Patience’s life and work at length-including the Anthracite coal industry and how he became an artist in this medium. She also discusses the African American community of West Pittston, Pennsylvania.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: November 3, 2016
- Created by: National Museum of African American History and Culture, American, founded 2003
- Recorded by: Patrick Telepictures, Inc., American
- Interview of: Dr. Juanita Patience Moss, American, born 1932
- Interviewed by: Joanne Hyppolite
- Subject of: C. Edgar Patience, American, 1906 - 1972
- Type: video recordings
- Type: oral histories
- Type: digital media - born digital
- Medium: digital
- Dimensions: Duration (2016.129.17.1a): 38.07 min.
- Dimensions: Duration (2016.129.17.2a): 37.72 min.
- Dimensions: 63.82 GB
- Place collected: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted: West Pittston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Art
- Topic: Communities
- Topic: Families
- Topic: Labor
- Topic: Museums
- Object number: 2016.129.17.1a-.2a
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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