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TALIESIN FELLOWSHIP
Apprentice Lists, 1932-1959
John Geiger devised a series of query procedures to report the names of individuals considered to be Apprentices who were resident in the Taliesin Fellowship on an annual basis. If an Apprentice was married, the presence of the spouse is usually implied as a community participant. To refine the results, these searches often excluded Wright family members, progeny of Apprentices, transient contributors such as musicians, artists, or craftspeople, and other individuals probably not considered to be Apprentices, but whose presence was also recorded in the database. The searches shown here replicate this conservative approach to list the Taliesin Fellowship population in a given year; the names returned for these lists were perhaps meant by Geiger to be seen as the elective membership, those who had joined purposefully. Note that not all, indeed relatively few, Apprentices were chosen to contribute to architectural work in the Wright studio, and may have served principally
instead in other roles supportive of general Fellowship life.
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