Reminiscences of Horace Marden Albright, 1957 and 1960
Abstract
Department of the Interior, 1913; National Park Service, 1916-1933; Superintendent of Yellowstone, 1919-1933; conservation problems; maintenance of park facilities, establishment of new parks, acquisition of lands; historical areas and national monuments; organization of Civilian Conservation Corps; Capital Parks and Planning Commission; borax mining and potash production, United States Potash Comp any; chemical code under National Recovery Act; labor problems; international cartel and price war; impressions of Franklin K. Lane, Woodrow Wilson, Albert B. Fall, Warren G. Harding, Owen Brewster, Gifford Pinchot, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Hiram Johnson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harold Ickes
Conservationists; Conservation of natural resources; Business; Labor unions; Mining industries and finance; National parks and reserves--United States; New Deal, 1933-1939; United States Politics and government 1933-1945; Albright, Horace M. (Horace Marden), 1890-1987; United States Potash Company; Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1957 and 1960
Physical Description
851 pages
Note (Biographical)
Conservationist
Note
Interviewed by Louis Morris Starr and William T. Ingersoll