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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Hoover Institution Archives Stanford University Stanford CA 94305–6010 Survey of Race Relations 1924–1927 37 boxes Report, correspondence, interview transcripts, questionnaires, and printed matter, relating to the social and economic status of Chinese, Japanese, other Oriental, Mexican, and other minority residents of the Pacific Coast of the U.S. and Canada, and to race relations on the Pacific Coast. Contains interviews and notes from agricultural workers, lumber companies, and fishermen.
Idaho State Historical Society 450 N. 4th St. Boise, ID 83702 Bowler, Bruce (1911–2002) 1894–2002, bulk 1960–1980 41 cubic feet Attorney and pioneer conservationist Bruce Bowler, also known as W. B. Bowler, was born in Shoshone, Idaho, March 24, 1911, the son of Albert and Martha Garlock Bowler. He attended the University of Idaho and received a Bachelor of Law (LLB degree) in 1938. He opened a general law practice in Boise in that year and immediately began volunteer work as an environmental activist. He practiced law for fifty years and pioneered in Idaho the field of environmental law. Early in his career, he was active in the Idaho Wildlife Federation. He helped put the 1938 initiative on the ballot to create the Idaho Fish and Game Commission. In 1960, Bowler was counsel for the Idaho Wildlife Federation when it successfully challenged the construction of two different proposed federal dams on the Snake River—the Nez Perce dam and the High Mountain Sheep dam. The latter case went to the United States Supreme Court, where Justice William O. Douglas, writing for the majority, ruled in 1967 that the Federal Power Commission must consider environmental concerns in dam projects. He died at the age of 91 in Boise, Idaho on May 2, 2002. The collection contains correspondence, legal documents, minutes, reports, publications and clippings related to his activities in the environmental movement in Idaho. Correspondents included pivotal Idaho environmental leaders Frank Church, Ernie Day, Ted Trueblood, Walt Blackadar, Franklin Jones, Morton Brigham, Cecil Andrus, and William Meiners.
National Archives - Southeast Region 1557 St. Joseph Avenue East Point, GA 30344 US Government vs. Edith Vanderbilt, et al. 1912–1926 1 box U.S. District Court, Western District of North Carolina, Asheville Division, Case #1024 - "U.S. vs 7923.93 Acres of land et al." Proceedings of a court case to condemn a number of contested exceptions to the Vanderbilt holdings for the creation of the Pisgah National Forest. Approximately one hundred people claimed that the Vanderbilts didn't have valid rights to sell 7,923.93 acres of land to the government and the condemnation proceedings were necessary so that the sale could proceed.
The New York Public Library Rare Books and Manuscripts Division Room 328 The Research Libraries Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street New York, NY 10018 Environmental Action Coalition 1970–1993 45 linear feet The Environmental Action Coalition (EAC) is a non-profit citizens' association in New York City dedicated to expanding public awareness of environmental problems. It works to achieve this goal through consumer awareness, the development of an environmental education curriculum for schools, and the coordination of environmental protection and improvement projects with community groups, business, government, and the scientific community. Organized in 1970 as the New York Committee for Earth Day, the EAC focuses on the issues of recycling and solid waste disposal, urban forestry, water conservation, and environmental education. Collection consists of general records, waste management program files, environmental education records, and other materials documenting the activities of the Environmental Action Coalition. General records, 1970–1987, include correspondence, reports, minutes, grant proposals, and related records in subject files. Waste management program files, 1971–1986, contain correspondence, minutes, surveys, reports, and subject files of Waste Management Director. Environmental education materials include issues and files of Eco-News, 1977–1980, 1985–1986, the first environmental newsletter for children; files relating to the EAC newsletter Cycle, 1973–1992; and miscellaneous materials about environmental education topics. Records, 1984–1991, related to EAC's contract with the Dept. of Sanitation in New York City, consist of correspondence, proposals, contracts, reports, and invoices for various recycling projects. Also, financial records, fund raising files, 1970–1993, publicity materials, clippings and other printed matter, photographs, and posters.
University of Alaska Fairbanks Alaska and Polar Regions Collections Elmer E. Rasmuson Library PO Box 756808 Fairbanks, AK 99775–6808 Northern Alaska Environmental Center 1971–1999 51 cubic feet Since its inception in 1971, the Northern Alaska Environmental Center — the northernmost local environmental organization in America—has focused its energies on preserving the natural and human environments of northern and central Alaska. The Center was conceived out of a perceived need by the state's environmentalists for a locally-based organization which could represent regional interests. The organization was named the Fairbanks Environmental Center with its mission described as "dedicated to the protection of the quality of the Alaskan environment through education and action." The Center has represented northern environmental concerns in the ANILCA (d) (2) and Alaska National Wildlife Refuge land battles and the development of the Susitna Dam, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, and the North Slope Haul Road. In 1981, the Center changed its name to the Northern Alaska Environmental Center. The records contain administrative documents as well as subject files relating to the various environmental issues the Center has engaged in. The present collection is a merger of two collections: the Fairbanks Environmental Center papers and the Northern Alaska Environmental Center records.
University of Georgia Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library Athens, Georgia 30602 Garden Club of Georgia 1930–1985 (bulk 1950–1985) 24 linear feet The records include correspondence (1950–1985); guest books (1941–1971); annual district reports (1960–1967); photographs; minutes (1957–1958); scrapbooks containing clippings, printed materials, and some correspondence; receipts and bills (1956–1984); programs; and booklets produced by the Garden Club. The materials document the activities of the Garden Club of Georgia as well as local garden clubs throughout Georgia and on the national level. Some specific topics documented in the collection include landscape design schools, flower shows, blue star memorial highway markers, and garden therapy.
University of Montana Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library K. Ross Toole Archives. Missoula, MT 59812 Wilderness Policy History Project 1922–2003 23 linear feet This collection contains materials compiled during the Wilderness Policy History Project. The project's purpose was to bring together records that could be used by wilderness managers, researchers, policy makers, and interested citizens to gain a clear historical understanding of Wilderness Act policy, evolution and language, and use this information to guide resolutions to the complex issues regarding current wilderness policy development and implementation. This collection is divided into three series: Series I, Wilderness Policy History Project Records, divided into subseries by the agency to which they relate. Each subseries contains correspondence, memos, testimonies, statements, articles, manuals, executive orders, pamphlets and audiocassettes and transcriptions of interviews documenting the development and implementation of Wilderness Policy in each respective agency. Subseries 1: United States Forest Service Records. Subseries 2: Fish and Wildlife Service Records. Subseries 3: National Park Service.
Subseries 4: Bureau of Land Management. Series II, Additional Wilderness History Materials, contains documents most likely donated to the Wilderness Policy History Project but not included in the Wilderness Policy History Project Records. They include recreation reference materials, materials from the 25th Wilderness Act Conference, and pamphlets, publications, reports, articles, clippings, speeches and discussion papers dealing with wilderness issues. Series III, Project Administration Records, contains correspondence, project announcements, task lists, project summaries and database reports and summaries. These records deal with the development, planning, progress and response to the Wilderness Policy History Project.
University of Pittsburgh Archives Service Center 7500 Thomas Boulevard Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Concerned Residents of the Youghiogheny 1968–2004 33 cubic feet (27 boxes), 1 oversize file Concerned Residents of the Youghiogheny (CRY) was a grassroots environmental organization that existed from 1985 to 1998 in Yukon, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated village in South Huntingdon Township. CRY worked to close down a nearby toxic waste disposal site owned by Mill Service, Inc., start cleanup and relocation programs, and to change legislation concerning waste management. The records include meeting minutes, correspondence, legal briefs, photographs, newspaper clippings, reports of surveys, posters, and videotapes. They show the progress and results of the group's efforts, including extensive public awareness campaigns, litigation, interaction with local and state government, and cooperation with other environmental groups.
University of Pittsburgh Archives Service Center 363 Hillman Library Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Western Pennsylvania Conservancy 1932–1982 47.5 cubic feet Conservation organization established in 1932, originally known as Greater Pittsburgh Parks Association. Material relates to land acquisition for the establishment of state parks and nature reserves. Sites include: Jennings Nature Reserve, Moraine State Park, McConnell's Mill, Ohioplye and more.
University of Tennessee Hoskins Library Special Collections 1401 Cumberland Ave. Knoxville TN 37996–4000 Gray, Aelred Joseph, (1909–2000) 1933–1993 14.33 linear feet Aelred Joseph "Flash" Gray was born in 1909 in Warren, Pennsylvania. It was as a football player at the University of Notre Dame in the late 1920s and early 1930s that he earned his nickname "Flash" : although he was not a large man, he was fast. Gray came to Tennessee in 1935 as the director of the TVA's community planning assistance program. Here, his work convinced TVA officials that planning needed to occur before dams and reservoirs were constructed. Gray worked closely with Earle S. Draper in planning Norris, Tennessee, which was the first of many TVA-founded model towns in the Tennessee Valley. Gray also developed the TVA's Flood Damage Prevention Program in the 1950s, which became a national model. After nearly 40 years of service, Gray retired from TVA and began teaching at the University of Tennessee. At the University, he was instrumental in establishing a graduate planning program. At the time of his death on July 16, 2000, Gray was known to many as the "grandfather of planning." The collection consists of reports, notes, rosters, drafts, binders, clippings, and publications relating to Aelred "Flash" Gray's career with the University of Tennessee Planning Department and two of his publications, Norris, Tennessee: A History of America's First Self-Contained Greenbelt Town and Regional Planning: The TVA Experience.
University of Tennessee Hoskins Library Special Collections 1401 Cumberland Ave. Knoxville TN 37996–4000 Roth, Albert G. (1894–1974) 1925–1937 1.5 linear feet Albert Gordon "Dutch" Roth, born September 20, 1890 in Knoxville, Tenn., is recognized as one of the most prolific early photographers of the Great Smoky Mountains' Greenbrier and Mount Le Conte sections. What began in 1913 as a diversion soon developed into a serious avocation as Roth perfected his photography while avidly hiking the unexplored regions near his home. He worked exclusively with a Kodak 122 camera, and, often carrying a heavy tripod, would climb twenty to thirty feet up a tree or venture hundreds of yards off the trail to capture the landscape images for which he would later be noted. Roth remained an amateur photographer, and, consequently, his photographs were never highly distributed. Roth died in 1974.This collection consists of a photo album by Roth, containing pictures of the Smoky Mountains and the Smoky Mountain Hiking Club. The earliest dated photograph is December 1925; the latest dated photograph is May 2, 1937.
University of Tennessee Hoskins Library Special Collections 1401 Cumberland Ave. Knoxville TN 37996–4000 Tennessee Endangered Species Committee 1964–1983 10.5 linear feet This collection contains information in the form of magazine and newspaper articles, correspondence, court proceedings, congressional records and other materials concerning the lengthy battle between the Tennessee Endangered Species Committee and the Tennessee Valley Authority over the building of the Tellico Dam and the dam's threat to various elements of the local environment, particularly an endangered species of fish, the Snail Darter.
University of Washington Libraries Special Collections Box 352900 Seattle, WA 98195–2900 University of Washington. Laboratory of Radiation Ecology 1944–1984 21 cubic feet The Applied Fisheries Laboratory was created at the University of Washington in 1943. Dr. Lauren R. Donaldson was the first director. In 1946 the laboratory came under the administration of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The laboratory was charged with the responsibility to develop methods for evaluating the hazards of radiation in and around water used as a cooling agent for atomic energy plants. Its main efforts were directed toward evaluating the effect of the Hanford Nuclear Site on the Columbia River. In 1946 the laboratory began studies of the biological effect of the weapons tested at the Eniwetok Test Site at Bikini and Eniwetok Atolls, and focused on these studies for over twelve years. After a 1954 accident when a weapon detonated at Bikini Atoll and contaminated a Japanese fishing vessel and the Rongelap Atoll in the Eastern Marshall Islands, the laboratory studied the contamination of fish in the surrounding waters and on native foods at Rongelap. These studies expanded to include detailed investigations of the ecology of Rongelap. In 1957 the contract with the Atomic Energy Commission was expanded to develop a cooperative laboratory with the state of Washington Department of Game at Fern Lake in Kitsap County. In 1958 the name of the Applied Fisheries Laboratory changed to Laboratory of Radiation Biology, and in 1966 that name changed to Laboratory of Radiation Ecology. It continued as a division of the Fisheries Research Institute until approximately 1987. These records document the administration and research projects of the Laboratory. Records include documentation of studies of the Bikini and Eniwetok Atolls, the Marshall Islands, the Columbia River, and Fern Lake, among many other locations. Included are correspondence, reports, writings, subject files, logs, photographs and slides, trip files, convention and conference files, and ephemera.

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