Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Contents | Arrangement
Collection Summary
Title | Gifford Pinchot papers, 1770-1972 |
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Span Dates | 1770-1972 |
Bulk Dates | (bulk 1870-1946) |
ID No. | MSS36277 |
Creator | Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946 |
Extent | 2,000,000 items ; 3,022 containers plus 33 oversize ; 1,220 linear feet ; 37 microfilm reels |
Language | Collection material in English |
Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Summary | Conservationist, chief forester for the United States Department of Agriculture, professor of forestry at Yale University, and governor of Pennsylvania. Primarily correspondence and subject files, together with diaries, memoranda, speeches, articles, reports, financial papers, bulletins, pamphlets, clippings, memorabilia, and other papers relating chiefly to Pinchot's activities in conservation and forestry and to his terms as governor of Pennsylvania. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011106 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Online Catalog record for this collection: http://lccn.loc.gov/mm78036277 |