Collection Summary
Information for Researchers
History
Scope and Content
Collection Summary
Creator:
California State Parks Council.
Collection Title: Records of the California State Parks Council
Collection Number: BANC MSS 68/125 c
Extent:
3 boxes, 1 carton.
Repository: The
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Relating to the campaign for a comprehensive state park program. Included are copies of letters written by Newton B. Drury
and staff, incoming correspondence, interoffice memoranda, minutes of meetings, press releases, articles prepared for newspapers
and magazines, speeches and statements, lists of speakers and speaking engagements, clippings, and reference materials, particularly
relating to parks in other states.
Languages Represented:
English
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Records of the California State Parks Council, BANC MSS 68/125 c, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
History
The California State Parks Council (known originally as the California State Parks Committee) was formed in January 1925 to urge legislation which would give California a comprehensive state park program. The change
in nomenclature was made in 1927. The Save-the-Redwoods League furnished headquarters and general office facilities for the Council, and Newton B. Drury, secretary of the League undertook the direction of the legislative campaign. The major objective was attained in 1927 when
the California Legislature passed three bills, introduced by Senator Arthur H. Breed, providing for a State Park Commission and a state park survey (which was undertaken by Frederick Law Olmsted), and authorizing a State Parks Bond issue. The $6,000,000 bond issue came before the voters as Amendment 4 on the ballot in
November 1928. The publicity campaign which the Council sponsored resulted in wide-spread popular support, and the bond issue
was overwhelmingly approved.
Scope and Content
These records, which were given to the Bancroft Library by the Save-the-Redwoods League in April 1968, relate to the efforts
of the Council in its legislative program and in the bond campaign. They include copies of the letters written by Mr. Drury
and staff, incoming correspondence, inter-office memoranda, minutes of meetings, press releases, articles prepared for magazines
and newspapers, speeches and statements, lists of speakers and speaking engagements, clippings, and reference materials, particularly
relating to parks in other states. Two additional folders, gift of Mr. Drury, June 1969.