The Frank B. Durkee papers consist 3.5 linear feet of reports, correspondence, photographs, and blueprints mostly documenting his time as the director of the California Dept. of Public Works and as a member of the Sacramento Redevelopment Agency. The papers include reports, subject files, and correspondence of urban renewal and redevelopment projects in Sacramento, California in the 1950s-1960s.

Frank Bidwell Durkee (1892-1983) was born in Chitwood, Oregon on December 3, 1892 to Edward Warren Durkee, a Union Civil War veteran and a founder of Russell, Kansas, and Elizabeth (nee Monk) Durkee of Yorkshire, England. Durkee was raised in Oregon until 1900 when his family moved to a farm in Miner County, South Dakota where they lived for three years before moving to Chico, California in January 1903. After graduating from Chico High School in June 1913 he attended the University of Southern California Law School for one year (1913-1914) and was eventually admitted to the California State Bar in 1926.

3.5 linear feet (4 boxes + 1 oversized box + 1 oversized drawer)

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