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Parks and Playgrounds

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:

Wallace F. Bennett papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 20
Scope and Contents Collection contains correspondence, speeches, bills, legislative resolutions, press releases, and financial records that document Wallace F. Bennett's activities during his time as a senator between 1948 and 1974 in Utah and Washington D.C. The central topic of these materials (which were mostly created during Bennett's later terms in the US Senate) is the Cold War, including how to promote peaceful coexistence between the Soviet Union and America. They also reveal the immense changes that...
Dates: 1948-1984

William C. Gregg report

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230343219]
Identifier: MSS 215
Scope and Contents

Typewritten report with photographs glued into a photo album with the report. The item was addressed to Horace M. Albright, superintendant of Yellowstone National Park. Gregg informs Albright about the exploration of the Bechler River district on the Yellowstone.

Dates: 1920

History of the Grand Canyon's North Rim Facilities

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230306984]
Identifier: MSS SC 934
Scope and Contents

A brief chronological history of the facilities of the Grand Canyon's North Rim. It mentions some of the many men who were instrumental in constructing lodging facilities and structures.

Dates: 1948-1968

Letters sent to Paul D. Veach, 1948 June-September

 Series — Folder 4: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197239122150]
Identifier: MSS 9536 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Letters and postcards from friends and family sent to Paul Veach while he was employed at Lake Lodge, Yellowstone Park during the summer of 1948. One letter includes photographs. Dated June to September 1948.

Dates: 1948 June-September

Lawrence S. and Lorna Booth Maycock photographs of Yellowstone

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230351311]
Identifier: MSS 7393
Abstract

Collection contains sixty-eight photographs of Yellowstone National Park.

Dates: Other: bulk 1923-1932; 1923-1998

Paul D. Veach collection of information about Yellowstone National Park, 1948

 Series — Folder 5: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197239122143]
Identifier: MSS 9536 Series 3
Scope and Contents

Includes United States Park Service automobile permits, a Cody Stampede customer stub, a Northern Pacific Railway train ticket stub, two match box covers from the Stagecoach Inn and Doc's Cafe, a napkin from the Stagecoach Inn, a blank autograph book, a Yellowstone National Park Season 1948 Folder B pamphlet, and an anonymous poem lamenting the food at Lake Lodge. Materials dated 1948.

Dates: 1948

Paul D. Veach photographs and negatives, 1948

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 9536 Series 1
Scope and Contents

This series includes photographs, mainly black and white with a few in color, negatives, and a few photograph re-prints produced from the negatives. Photographs document employees at Lake Lodge, wildlife, scenery, tourism, and transportation in Yellowstone National Park. Dated 1948.

Dates: 1948

Photograph of football game at Timp Park

 Digital Record
Identifier: UAP2_F155_p155bottom
Dates: Majority of material found within 1920-1925

Study of the lower Provo River

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329598]
Identifier: MSS SC 2965
Scope and Contents

Study of the land, geographical resources, wildlife, vegetation, commercial zoning, residential zoning, traffic circulation, flood control, state resources, federal resources, parks, recreation, home utilities, office utilities, water, and history of Provo, Utah, for the purpose of making preliminary recommendations concerning land use and development. The committee was chaired by Leona Holbrook.

Dates: 1974

Utah Parks Company agreement

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230311984]
Identifier: MSS SC 1516
Scope and Contents

Typed and photocopied legal agreement between the Utah & Grand Canyon Transportation Company and the Utah Parks Company. The item arranges for the purchase by the Utah Parks Company of business and property of the Utah & Grand Canyon Transportation Company operating within Utah's Zion National Park.

Dates: 1927