Roger Patton Welles papers relating to Crater Lake National Park, 1916-1932.

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Roger Patton Welles papers relating to Crater Lake National Park, 1916-1932.

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Correspondence, photographs, personal papers and printed material primarily relating to Welles's employment as a ranger at Crater Lake National Park. Correspondence written to his family records his departure from Yale, his experience in Los Angeles, his return to Connecticut, and his year at Crater Lake National Park. There is also correspondence with government and National Park Service officials relating to his initial Park Service appointment, his promotions, and his resignation in 1926. Informal correspondence with other National Park staff includes letters from Peter Oard and William Gladstone Steel, the founder of Crater Lake National Park and Welles's first supervisor. A diary (16 p.) that Welles kept from October 1925 to February 1926 records his experience as a ranger. Two photo albums and approximately 60 loose photos, some duplicates, including fifteen which were removed from one of the albums. Mostly photographs of Crater Lake National Park and group photos of Welles with other rangers and friends, as well as a formal portrait of Welles. Eight photographic postcards, some blank, some with correspondence on verso. Collection also includes notes about birds, animals, and Connecticut place names; forms, documents, and receipts related to Welles's duties at Crater Lake National Park; and printed works, promotional literature, clippings, and four maps of Crater Lake and other national parks. Contains a copy of the proceedings from the first Chief Ranger's conference, held in 1926 at Sequoia National Park; a 1926 copy of Crater Lake National Park's Nature Notes; a copy of Ansel F. Hall's Guide to Giant Forest Sequoia with manuscript dedication, and a corrected copy of John F. Pernot's Forests of Crater Lake's National Parks with manuscript notes in Welles's hand.

1.04 linear ft. (3 boxes)

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Hall, Ansel F. (Ansel Franklin), 1894-1962

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A series of Rainbow Bridge/Monument Valley Expeditions were carried out between 1933 and 1938, but the most famous one is possibly the 1933 expedition. The goal of the expeditions was to research the area so that the National Park Service could establish a park in the region from southeast Utah to Northern Arizona. Led by Ansel Hall, the expedition included members from the Explorers Club from New York, researchers from UC-Berkeley, and others from a variety of universities througho...

Pernot, John F.

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Steel, W. G. (William Gladstone)

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An early Pacific Northwest conservationist, William Gladstone Steel (1854-1934), is best known for his advocacy work on behalf of granting national park status to Crater Lake. An avid mountaineer and prolific writer, Steel also was actively involved in the effort to establish the Cascade Range Forest Reserve and founded both the Oregon Alpine Club and the Mazamas. From the description of Cascade Range Forest Reserve, circa 1924. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123953735 Willi...

Aetna Life Insurance Company (Hartford, Conn.)

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Oard, Peter.

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Welles, Roger Patton.

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Roger Patton Welles graduated from Yale College in 1924. He moved to Southern California shortly after graduation to improve his health, and worked briefly as an auditor for Aetna Life Insurance while living in Los Angeles. He returned to his family in Hartford, Connecticut for a few months in the spring of 1925. In June the Secretary of the Interior appointed Welles as a temporary Park Ranger in Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. Welles worked at Crater Lake National Park for a year, rising thr...

Conference of Chief Park Rangers 1926 : Sequoia National Park)

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