NPS Expansion: 1930s MENU Contents Foreword Preface pre-1933 Reorganization New Deal Recreation History NPS 1933-39 Recommendations Bibliography Appendix		Expansion of the National Park Service in the 1930s: Administrative History Chapter One: "They have grown up like Topsy" [1] Administration of American Parks Before 1933 Today, the 14,627 people of the National Park Service are responsible for the administration of 334 units that comprise the National Park System. [2] This is a far cry from the day some fifty-five years ago,when eleven people manned the central office in Washington D.C., and the National Park System consisted of fifteen national parks and twenty national monuments. [3] The development of the National Park Service and the system it administers was evolutionary. This study examines one phase in this process--the 1930s. In that decade--surely one of the most significant and creative in the service's history--both the organization and the system it administers were transformed. Chapter One continues with... National Parks and Monuments Under the Department of the Interior, 1872-1916
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