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NPS Expansion: 1930s


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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 Three: Impact of the New Deal on the National Park Service
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B. Federal Emergency Relief Administration


In 1933 Director Horace M. Albright noted that FERA [23] had approved construction of public works projects amounting to $1,222,573 for "those agencies which were transferred to, and combined with, the former National Park Service under the Executive orders of June 10 and July 28, 1933." Of this amount, $25,000 was for improvement of the Statue of Liberty and $1,197,573 was for projects in the District of Columbia. [24]

During fiscal year 1934 FERA supplied an allotment of $25,000,000 for the submarginal land acquisition program. Of this sum, $5,000,000 was to be used for the acquisition of land to be developed for recreational uses under the direction of the National Park Service. Hence this funding was the genesis of the recreational demonstration area program that will be considered more fully in chapter four of this study. [25]

After Civil Works Administration funding of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) was terminated in April 1934, the architectural program was continued with FERA funds until December 1935. The HABS program will be discussed in greater detail in chapter five of this study. [26]

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