Reminiscences of Jere Osgood : oral history, 1986.

Biographical Note

Woodworker.

Scope and Contents

Childhood, early influences on his work, education at University of Illinois, School for American Craftsmen, Rochester Institute of Technology, and in Denmark; teaching at Crafts Students League, Philadelphia College of Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology and in the Woodworking and Furniture Design Department at the Boston University Program in Artisanry; influences of other wood artists; discussion of various techniques and the current direction of his designs.

Subjects

• Boston University.
• Furniture making.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Osgood, Jere, 1936---Interviews.
• Polsky, Richard M., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Woodwork.
• Woodworkers--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1987.