- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 36 min., 30 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Librarian and art collector Vivian Hewitt was born on February 17, 1920 in New Castle, Pennsylvania. Hewitt earned her B.S. degree from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1944 and began working as a librarian. By 1949, she was a librarian and instructor at Atlanta University. In 1956, she joined the Rockefeller Foundation. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace hired Hewitt to be chief librarian in 1963, and she remained there until she retired in 1983. Hewitt and her husband, John, were avid art collectors, buying works wherever they traveled. After collecting Haitian works for fifteen years, they decided to focus on African American art and assembled a significant African American collection. The collection was bought by Bank of America and then gifted to the Afro-American Cultural Center in North Carolina. Hewitt remained active with her church and other organizations, and received numerous awards from various library associations including the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Vivian D. Hewitt
- Vivian D. Hewitt
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 997165453
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Vivian D. Hewitt.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
033630
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
Recorded New York, New York 2003 June 18.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Art Collector Chief Librarian.
- Added Author
Hewitt, Vivian D., interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.