RG 79 - National Park Service, General Administrative Files - Great Smoky Mountains National Park

 

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General Administrative Files, 1937-1965
National Archives Identifier 649044
This series consists of a broad range of administrative files including correspondence, memorandums, staff minutes, contracts, press releases, personal injury reports, annual reports, including reports to and from the Washington and the Regional offices, and correspondence to the park from the public. The files cover such subjects as Mission 66 plans, park improvements, expansions, cemeteries located on park land, flood relief, personnel, fire prevention, roads and trails. Also included are records concerning the disposal of surplus buildings on park property, correspondence with the Boy Scouts of America and Blue Ridge Parkway, Bureau of Public Roads reports, and reports on archaeological and historical research and the 25th and 30th anniversaries of the park.

Box	File Code	Title	Subject	Date	Notes
1	000	General Correspondence & Notes	Filing Scheme for Great Smoky Mountains		Filing scheme for the Great Smoky Mountain National Park - unique
1	000	General Correspondence & Notes	Filing Scheme for Great Smoky Mountains		Filing Scheme by Department of Interior National Parks
1	001.1	Conferences	Minutes of the Twelfth Conference of National Park Executives	1932	Held at Hot Springs National Park, has good history data
1	001.1	Conferences	Correspondence	1932-1935
1	001.1	Conferences	Proceedings of Joint Council of National Parks Operators	1934	Held at Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
1	001.4	Meeting Minutes	Staff Meeting Minutes  Director's Office	1958-1952	National Parks, Washington D. C.
2	001.5	Meeting Minutes	Staff Meeting Minutes Regional Director	1948-1951	Region 1, Richmond Virginia
2	001.8	Meeting Minutes	Staff Meeting Minutes  Great Smoky Mountains National Park	1951-1952
2	003	Invitations	Invitations & Addresses	1930-1938
2	010	Dedications	General	1930-1935
2	010	Dedications	General  Includes Program July 3, 1936	1936	Shenandoah National Park  Program  (FDR )
2	010	Dedications	General	1937
3	010	Dedications	General & Dedication September 2, 1940	1940	Includes photograph  / Park had been opened, never dedicated
3	010	Dedications	General	1938 -1939
3	010.01	Dedication Contracts	Tennessee Valley Awning	1940
3	010.01	Dedications	General Correspondence	1939-1940
3	010.01	Dedication Contracts	Contracts - General	1939
3	101.01.2	Dedication Invitations	Invitations to Dedication	1939-1940	Included invitation -(no date set)
3	101.01.2	Dedication Purchase Orders	Purchase Orders & Encumbrances for Park Dedication	1939-1940
3	101.01.2	Dedication Requisitions	Park Dedication	1939-1940
4	120.05.3	Appropriations	Congressional Appropriations & Bill	1932-1948
4	205	Instructions & Orders	Treasury Department Procurement Division	1931-1937
4	205.05.5	Memoranda	Regional Directors - Numbered Series 1-200	1944-1945
4	205.06.1	Correspondence	Office Orders	1933-1937
4	205.08.2	News Letters	"This Week In Defense"	1941	Publication about many Federal Agencies/programs  pre-war interesting
5	205.4	Travel Orders	Travel Orders for Staff	1931-1938
5	207.002.3	Superintendant	General Correspondence	1931-1948
5	207.002.4	Monthly Reports	Public Roads Administration / Federal Works Agency	1943-1949
6	207.02.01	Reports	Monthly Narrative Reports	1933-1934	With Photographs
7	207.02.01	Reports	Monthly Narrative Reports	1934 -1935	With Photographs
8	207.02.01	Reports	Monthly Narrative Reports	1935 -1937	With Photographs
9	207.02.01	Reports	Monthly Narrative Reports	1937 -1939	With Photographs
10	207.02.01	Reports	Monthly Narrative Reports	1939 - 1941	With Photographs
11	207.02.01	Reports	Monthly Narrative Reports	1941 -1942	With Photographs
12	207.02.04	Reports	Monthly Reports Bureau of Public Roads	1950-1952	With Photographs
12	207.04	Reports	Park Naturalist's Reports	1934-1948
12	207.04.5	Reports - Wildlife	Reports of Wildlife Technician	1939-1942
12	207.05	Monthly Reports	Rangers Monthly Reports Dec. 2,  1932  -  July  1940  N. Carolina	1932-1940	Weather, animals, accidents, forest, activities
13	207.05	Monthly Reports	Rangers Monthly Reports Aug. 1940  - Jan. 8, 1943. N. Carolina	1940-1943	Weather, animals, accidents, forest, activities
13	207.05	Monthly Reports	Rangers Monthly Reports Dec 1930  - July 1947  Tennessee	1930 -1947	Weather, animals, accidents, forest, activities
14	207.05	Monthly Reports	Rangers Monthly Reports  July 1947 - Sept.. 1951  Tennessee	1947-1951	Weather, animals, accidents, forest, activities
14	207.05.1	Reports	Emergency Conservation Work - Joe F. Manley, Forester	1935-1937	Tennessee side
14	207.05.1	Correspondence	General Correspondence Concerning Reports	1935-1940
14	207.05.1	Reports	Civilian Conservation Work - Joe F. Manley, Forester	1937	Tennessee Side
14	207.05.1	Reports	Monthly Reports  Branch of Forestry	1935-1936	North Carolina Side
14	207.05.1.1	Reports	Reports of Joe F. Manley, Forester	1938-1942
15	207.05.1.2	Reports	Reports of Paul M. Wentworth, Assistant Forester	1937-1941
15	207.05.1.3	Reports	Reports of Forester Frank H. Miller	1938-1942
15	207.07	Reports	Reports of Engineer	1935-1951	With Photographs
16	207.07.1	Reports	Assistant Engineer	1939-1941
16	207.07.2	Reports	Reports of Radio Foreman	1934-1947	Several Photographs
16	207.07.3	Reports	Land Buyer   W. R.  Mize Land Purchaser	1941-1942
16	207.07.5	Reports	Telephone Foreman	1943-1947
16	207.08	Reports	Reports of Landscape Architect	1935-1937
17	207.08	Reports	Reports of Landscape Architect	1937 - 1942
17	207.09	Reports	Reports of the Emergency Conservation Work Inspector	1934-1936
17	207.10	Reports	Reports of Assistant Attorney	1942-1944
17	207.10.10	Reports	Reports of Commissioner	1942-1944
17	207.11.10	Reports	Monthly Travel	1937-1941	How many visitors, cars, etc
18	207.11.3	Reports	Daily Travel Gatlinburg Entrance Station	1940-1941
18	207.11.3	Reports	Daily Travel Smokemount Entrance Station	1940-1941
18	207.11.3	Reports	Daily Travel  Townsend  Entrance Station	1940-1941
18	207.28	Report	Research	1937	Photographs
18	208.01	Permits	General	1931-1932
18	208.03	Codes	National Electrical	1937
18	208.04	Dog & Cats	Stray Animals in the Park	1931
18	208.06	Regulations	Fishing, Hunting & Trapping	1937-1948
19	208.1	Regulations	Local Subsidiary	1931-1937
19	250	Personnel	General	1935-1945
19	250	Correspondence	Superintendent -	1931-1942
19	250.01	Personnel	Changes in Status of Personnel	1938-1942
20	250.01	Personnel	Appointed Personnel	1939-1942
20	250.01	Personnel	Permanent Civil Service	1940-1945
20	250.02	Personnel	Non-Appointed Personnel	1940-1942
20	250.1	Personnel	General	1935-1938
20	250.3	Personnel	Classification	1934-1937
20	251	Correspondence	Civil Service Correspondence & Laws	1931-1943
20	251.	Personnel	Miscellaneous Personnel  Information	1935-1940
20	251.04	Personnel	Fingerprint Chart	1937
20	252	Personnel	Employment	1933-1948
21	252.	Personnel	Position Information	1949-1951
21	252.01	Correspondence	Employment	1941-1946
22	253.01	Personnel	Letters Transmittal Non-Appointed Personnel	1939-1942
22	253.03.1	Rates	Quarters Operations Approved Rates	1937-1947
22	302.2	Appropriations	Preliminary Appropriations	`1931-1936
24	303	Appropriations	General Appropriations	1936-1950
24	305	Bonds	Bond Schedules	1949-1952
24	305.001.1	Financial	Notices of Exceptions	1931-1938
24	305.08	Payroll	Reports of Employment  Kings Mountain National Military Park	1948-1953
25	305.08	Payroll	Reports of Employment  Andrew Johnson National Monument	1948-1953
25	305.08	Payroll	Reports of Employment and Pay Roll	1940-1944
25	305.08	Payroll	Reports of Employment  Cowpens National Battlefield Site	1948-1953
25	305.08	Payroll	General	1931-1939
25	305.08.1	Correspondence	Deductions for Quarters	1932-1938
26	305.10	Financial	Status of Costs of Projects	1931-1935
26	306	Accounting	General Correspondence	1944-1948
26	306.003.1	Construction	Roads	1931-1935
27	400	Correspondence	Supplies & Equipment - Genreal	1941-1952
27	403.04	Bids	Contract Bids	1942-1945
27	403.07	Opinion Files	Final Opinion Files	1947-1951
27	405	Information	Bullietins, Publications, Miscellaneous	1930-1932	**Includes Forest Service Fire-Camp Cook Book Region 1  Publication  1931
28	443.08	Correspondence	Trucks	1939-1948
28	450	Correspondence	Transportation - General	1936-1938
28	501.03	Information	Press Releases	1931-1936
28	504.04	Correspondence	Maps	1983-1950
29	550.02	Study	Federal Park Use Stludy	1937-1941
29	610.02	Correspondence	Victory Tax	1942
29	620.58.1	Correspondence	Superintendent's Residence	1946-1951	With Photographs
30	620.58.2	Correspondence	Employee's  Residence  7 & 8	1946-1951	With Photographs
42	621	Reports	Construction & Project Reports   #393-420	1935-1944	Mostly CCC work
43	621	Reports	Construction & Project Reports   #421 -493	1935-1944	Mostly CCC work
43	621	Reports	Construction & Project Files  Boxes 43-52	1936-1942
44	621	Reports	Construction & Project Reports   #494 - 533	1935-1944	Mostly CCC work
45	621	Reports	Construction & Project Reports   #534 -600	1935-1944	Mostly CCC work
46	621	Reports	Construction & Project Reports   #601 - 719	1935-1944	Mostly CCC work
47	621	Reports	Construction & Project Reports   #720 - 815	1935-1944	Mostly CCC work
48	621	Reports	Construction & Project Reports   #816 - 895	1935-1944	Mostly CCC work
49	621	Reports	Construction & Project Reports   #896 -957	1935-1944	Mostly CCC work
50	621	Reports	Construction & Project Reports   #958 - 1000	1935-1944	Mostly CCC work
51	621	Reports	Construction & Project Reports   #1001-1041	1935-1944	Mostly CCC work
52	621	Reports	Construction & Project Files	1936-1942
31	660.04	Correspondence	Telephone  - Genreal	1932-1941
31	700	Correspondence	General - Sciences	1931
31	714	Correspondence	Fisheries	1931-1937
32	732.06.2	Correspondence	Soil & Moisture Control - Erosion	1936-1952
32	801	Correspondence	Accidents	1940-1954
32	801.01	Correspondence	Accidents Plane  C-45 October 4, 1945	1945
32	801.02	Correspondence	Accidents Plane  B-29  June 12, 1946	1946
32	801.03	Correspondence	Protection - Policing	1945-1950
32	801.03.02	Correspondence	Litigation - Accidents	1942
32	801.04	Correspondence	Safety Bulletins , Conferences, ets	1939-1948
32	830.01	Correspondence	Flood Relief, Mempnis	1937
32	833.01	Correspondence	Fires	1930-1936	Great map
32	835.05	Correspondence	Exibits, Programs, Misc	1931-1937	Includes "Fish Tails" great story - not about fish
33	840.01	Correspondence	Administrative Plans	1931-1935
33	857	Reports	Travel - Visitor Data	1938-1951
34	857.10	Correspondence	Travel - Visitor	1931-1946	1938 German Group of visitors - itinerary in German
35	871	Correspondence	Associations, Clubs, committees, etc	1932-1951
35	871.01	Correspondence	Appalachian Trail Conferences, News, Etc.	1930-1951	Includes some bulletins
35	871.03	Correspondence	Park Uniforms	1931-1943	Box 35  1931 Photograph of Uniform
36	871.03	Correspondence	Smoky Mountain Hiking Club - Bulletins & Correspondence	1931-1938
36	881	Correspondence	Forestry Organizations, Management & Poloicy	1931-1936
36	883	Correspondence	Forest Protection	1935-1943	June 1942 Civil Air Patrol  involvement
37	883.01	Correspondence	Fires	1931-1936	Includes great map
37	883.01.2	Reports	Prevention & Regulations	1931-1934
38	883.02	Correspondence	Protection	1931-1936
38	883.02.1	Reports	Type Mapping Reports  --	1935-1938
38	883.03	Reports	General Fire Records	1931-1937
39	883.03.1	Reports	Individual Fire Reports	1931- 1939
40	883.03.1.1	Reports	Reports of Fires in Buildings	1938-1950
40	883.03.1.3	Correspondence	Roaring Fork & Bskins Creek	1936-1937
40	883.03.1.4	Correspondence	Little River Fire 1937	1936-1937
40	883.07	Correspondence	Forest Protection Cooperations	1935-1950
40	883.09	Reports	Fire Break ,  Mt Harrison	1936
40	885.01	Correspondence	Reforestation  includes  Civilian Conservation Corps	1933-1936	Fort Oglethorpe
41	900	Correspondence	Concessions	1933-1949
41	900	Correspondence	Public Utilities Operators	1936-1949
42	900.1	Correspondence	Camp Information, Misc. & CCC	1933-1934
42	901	Correspondence	Permits & Privileges	1933-1938