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Parks and Playgrounds

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 9 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

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

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

Utah pioneer day ribbon, Fairmont Park

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197225523700]
Identifier: MSS 2722

Paul D. Veach papers on Yellowstone National Park

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 9536
Scope and Contents This collection contains Paul D. Veach's papers documenting his experience working at Lake Lodge in Yellowstone National Park during the summer of 1948, including photographs, negatives, correspondence, and ephemera. Photographs and negatives document tourist activity in the park, Lake Lodge employees, the scenery and wildlife, and transportation. The collection also contains letters and postcards addressed to Paul D. Veach, an empty autograph book, an unidentified poem lamenting the food at...
Dates: 1948

Yellowstone Park memories

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337443]
Identifier: MSS 2591
Scope and Contents

Reminiscenes of living in the Park as a child and his father's work as superintendent of road construction in the Park for Morrison-Knudsen Company.

Dates: 2003