Title:

[Photographs from the Newton Bishop Drury papers]

Creator/Contributor:

Drury, Newton Bishop, 1889-1978, creator, creator.

Photographs documenting the activities of Newton B. Drury during his professional career, specifically during his associations with the Save the Redwoods League, the California State Parks Commission, the National Park Service and the California Division of Beaches and Parks. Includes many professional and press photographs of Drury at various events (e.g. dedications, anniversaries, banquets, etc.), posing with other officials or groups, and/or visiting various parks in California and elsewhere. Event locations include Yellowstone, Carlsbad Caverns, Grand Tetons, Blue Ridge Parkway, Big Bend, among others. Also includes views of many natural locations in California and elsewhere that were, or were considered for, government park lands, including Joshua Tree, Doane Valley, Clear Lake, Malibu Coast, Russian Gulch, Big Sur, Shasta, Red Rock Canyon. San Francisco Bay Area scenes includes views of San Francisco, Berkeley, Angel Island and a 1953 Mountain Play production on Mt. Tamalpais. Also includes a "pilgrimage" scene from the Class of 1912 of the University of California, Berkeley, and a group portrait of a few members of this class, including Drury and Earl Warren, taken at the Bohemian Grove in 1941. Another snapshot, with uncertain association to Drury, depicts Theodore Roosevelt participating in an unidentified event. Most images in negatives are duplicated among the prints.

Date:

1912 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca -- n-us---

Parks -- California -- Photographs

Parks -- United States -- Photographs

Conservation of natural resources

Conservation of Natural Resources

Parcs -- Californie -- Photographies

Conservation des ressources naturelles

Conservation of natural resources

Parks

California -- Photographs

Californie -- Photographies

California

United States

United States. -- National Park Service.

California State Park Commission.

California. -- Division of Beaches and Parks.

Save the Redwoods League.

University of California, Berkeley. -- Class of 1902 -- Photographs

California. -- Division of Beaches and Parks

California State Park Commission.

Save the Redwoods League.

United States. -- National Park Service

Drury, Newton Bishop -- 1889-1978 -- Archives

Drury, Newton Bishop -- 1889-1978 -- Photographs

Drury, Newton Bishop -- 1889-1978

Title devised by cataloger.

Collected by Newton Bishop Drury.

Numerous photographers represented, many unidentified.

Includes approximately 200 prints and 100 negatives.

COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.

NITRATE NEGATIVES: CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.

Transferred from the Newton Bishop Drury papers (BANC MSS 79/61 c).

Gift ; Of Newton Bishop Drury ; 1973-1978.

Newton Bishop Drury was born in San Francisco in 1889 to prominent newspaperman and politician Wells Drury and his wife, Elvira Lorraine Bishop. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1912 and served in the U.S. Army Balloon Corps during World War I. The destruction he witnessed during the war inspired him to become a staunch conservationist. Drury married Elizabeth Frances Shilling in 1918; the couple had two children. In 1919, Newton and his brother Aubrey founded a public relations and advertising firm, the Drury Brothers Company. One of their clients was the Save the Redwoods League, a California organization dedicated to preserving redwood forests. Newton became the League's first Executive Director in 1919, serving in that capacity until 1940. During his tenure at the League, Drury helped direct the legislative campaign for a comprehensive state park program in California. He served as Secretary to the California State Parks Committee from 1925-1927, and as a Land Acquisitions Officer for the California State Park Commission from approximately 1928-1940. When Newton Drury was appointed Director of the National Park Service in August 1940, his brother Aubrey, the Administrative Secretary, assumed management of the League. Newton Drury served as director of the National Park Service until March 31, 1951. Disagreements with Secretary of the Interior Oscar L. Chapman over dams in Dinosaur National Monument contributed to his resignation. That same year, Drury became chief of California's Division of Beaches and Parks. He retired from the Park Service and resumed his role as Executive Director of the Save the Redwoods League when Aubrey died in 1959. Newton subsequently served as League President from 1971-1975, and Chair of the Board until his death in 1978.

Photographs from the Newton Bishop Drury papers, BANC PIC 1979.152, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic

Archives.

Photographs.

Nitrate negatives.

photonegative

photoprint

approximately 300 photographs in 2 boxes : chiefly gelatin silver prints and nitrate negatives ; sheets 26 x 21 cm or smaller

English

Origin:

California

COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.

NITRATE NEGATIVES: CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.