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Finding Aid to the William Penn Mott Jr. Memorial Fund Records, 1943-2001, bulk 1991-2001
BANC MSS 2000/132
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Collection Title: William Penn Mott Jr. Memorial Fund records
Date (inclusive): 1943-2001,
Date (bulk): bulk 1991-2001
Collection Number: BANC MSS 2000/132
Creators :
William Penn Mott Jr. Memorial Fund
Extent:
Number of containers: 6 cartons and 1 oversize folder.
Linear feet: 7.55
Repository: The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: The William Penn Mott, Jr. Memorial Fund records contain correspondence, memos, meeting minutes, agendas, financial records,
and the draft of and research materials for the Mott biography
Prophet of the Parks by Mary Ellen Butler. The bulk of the collection consists of the background materials and notes used to write the biography.
Also includes photographs of William Penn Mott Jr., and members of the memorial fund.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head
of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94270-6000. Consent is given on behalf of The
Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright
owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner. See:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html .
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
[Identification of item], William Penn Mott Jr. Memorial Fund Records, BANC MSS 2000/132, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
William Penn Mott Jr. Papers. BANC MSS 2000/133 c
Dynamic Park Leadership, 1962-1967, oral history transcript. BANC MSS 94/52 c
Services for Californians: Executive Department Issues in the Reagan Administration, 1967-1984, oral history transcript. BANC
MSS 87/255
Printed materials have been transferred to the book collection of The Bancroft Library.
Videotapes/sound recordings have been transferred to the Microforms Collection of The Bancroft Library.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Mott, William Penn
Mott, William Penn--Portraits
William Penn Mott Jr. Memorial Fund--Archives
William Penn Mott Jr. Memorial Fund--Pictorial works
Photographs
Butler, Mary Ellen, 1940-
The William Penn Mott Jr. Memorial Fund Records were given to The Bancroft Library by the William Penn Mott Jr. Memorial Fund
on April 27, 2000. Additions were made by Mary Ellen Butler on September 6, 2006.
No additions are expected.
Arranged to the folder level.
Processed by Michele Morgan and Misun Chung in 2002; additions by Alison E. Bridger in 2007.
The Mott Memorial Fund was created in September 1992 and chaired by Dick Trudeau. Several people participated in the fund's
activities over the years, most notably Mott's sons, William Penn Mott III and John Mott, and the former publisher of Sunset
Magazine, L.W. "Bill" Lane, Jr. Among the accomplishments of the William Penn Mott, Jr. Memorial Fund were the naming of the
Mott Longhouse at the YMCA of the East Bay, Camp Loma Mar; Mott's posthumous election to the National Recreation and Park
Association's Hall of Fame; a major contribution to the Golden Gate National Parks Association for the William Penn Mott,
Jr. Visitors Center at the Presidio; and the publication of Mott's biography,
Prophet of the Parks. The Fund was dissolved after its objectives were reached.
Scope and Content of Collection
The William Penn Mott, Jr. Memorial Fund records contain correspondence, memos, meeting minutes, agendas, financial records,
and the draft of and research materials for the Mott biography
Prophet of the Parks by Mary Ellen Butler. The bulk of the collection consists of the background materials and notes used to write the biography.
Also includes photographs of William Penn Mott Jr., and members of the memorial fund.