Photographs, undated, 1930-1936.

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Photographs, undated, 1930-1936.

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Assorted sized black and white photographs, mainly documenting buildings, scenery, personnel, special events, and development, particularly road, dam, and trail construction in the state parks and related recreational and scenic areas. Many of the development projects probably also involved the federal Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps programs. There are sizeable groups of photographs for Camden, Cascade, Cottonwood, Ft. Ridgely, Gooseberry Falls, Itasca, Jay Cooke, Mille Lacs Kathio, Scenic, Sibley, and Whitewater state parks, and Leech Lake Scenic Wayside. There are also assorted small groups and single photographs from other parks and areas, from numbered, but unlocated, work projects, and of divisional personnel.

1112 photographs in 1 card file box.

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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SNAC Resource ID: 7315885

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Minnesota. Dept. of Conservation.

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United States. National Park Service

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U.S. National Park Service has managed the Morristown National Historical Park since 1933. From the description of Morristown National Historical Park resource management records, 1933-1994 (bulk 1938-1970). (Morristown National History Park). WorldCat record id: 71014733 The National Park Service is the U.S. federal agency that manages all National Parks, many National Monuments and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. It was created...

Minnesota Works Progress Administration

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The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was established in July, 1935, as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a New Deal agency responsible for operating a wide variety of "socially useful" work-relief programs. The WPA was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939 and was transferred, along with several other relief agencies, to the newly created Federal Works Agency. After the United States entered World War II, the FWP was renamed the Writers' Unit of the WPA's War...

Wirth, Theodore, 1863-1949

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National Conference on State Parks

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Van Sant, Samuel Rinnah, 1844-1936

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Lathrop, Harold William, 1901-1961

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Wirth, Conrad Louis, 1899-1993

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Government executive. From the description of Reminiscences of Conrad Louis Wirth : oral history, 1966. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527269 ...

Minnesota. Division of Parks and Recreation

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Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)

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The Civilian Conservation Corps, a federal agency, was created as part of the New Deal in 1935. From the description of Civilian Conservation Corps photograph collection [graphic]. 1936. (Santa Fe Public Library). WorldCat record id: 38548415 On March 31, 1933, congress passed the Emergency Conservation Work Act, creating the Civilian Conservation Corps. On April 5, the president appointed Robert Fechner of Tennessee as Director of Emergency Conservation Work. Fechner, a vic...