Audio tape transcriptions of Genevieve Gillette.

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Audio tape transcriptions of Genevieve Gillette.

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Record group 94-106 contains transcriptions of audio tapes made by E. Genevieve Gillette (1973-1983) documenting her experiences as a landscape horticulturalist and environmental activist. Of special note is her role in the development of Michigan's state parks, especially with relation to her work with Peter Hoffmaster. The record group also contains a copy of a 1955 dissertation by Robert W. McIntosh entitled Wildland planning procedures with emphasis on recreational land use in the Tahquamenon-Pictured Rocks region. The final portion of the record group are Porcupine Mountains State Park materials (1925-1974), containing correspondence, reports, maps, and newspaper clippings relating to the creating and maintaining of the Park.

2 mss. boxes.

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State Archive of Michigan

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Gillette, E. Genevieve (Emma Genevieve), 1898-1986.

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E. Genevieve Gillette was born in 1898 to David Comodore Gillette and Kittie Beal Gillette. She was instrumental in many conservation works, especially the establishment of Michigan's state park system. She graduated from Lansing High School in 1916, and received a B.S. in agriculture from Michigan Agriculture College in 1920. She helped organize the Michigan Horticultural Society in 1930, became the first president of the Detroit Rose Society, started a Michigan branch of the Friends of the Nat...

McIntosh, Robert Woodrow, 1917-....

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Hoffmaster, P. F.

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Michigan. Parks Division

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