Gifford Pinchot Papers - American Memory - Library of Congress

United States. Forest Service.
Yale University.--Faculty.
Subjects
Conservation of natural resources.
Flood control.
Forestry schools and education.
Forests and forestry.
Presidents--United States--Election--1912.
Presidents--United States--Election--1924.
Prohibition.
Public utilities.
World War, 1914-1918--Civilian relief--Belgium.
Places
Oceania--Description and travel.
Pennsylvania--Politics and government.
Russia--Description and travel.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Occupations
Conservationists.
Foresters.
Governors--Pennsylvania.
Administrative Information
Provenance
The papers of Gifford Pinchot, conservationist, chief forester in the United States Department of
Agriculture, professor of forestry at Yale University, and governor of Pennsylvania, were given to
the Library of Congress by Gifford Pinchot, Cornelia Pinchot and the Pinchot family in several
installments between 1941 and 1953. Additional material has been received through gift and
transfer, 1955-1990.
Processing History
Upon arrival in the Library of Congress, the Gifford Pinchot Papers were placed in manuscript
containers, with a descriptive container listing providing the only access to the collection.
Substantial portions of the papers were reorganized in 1973 into a more coherent arrangement,
and new series were created to bring similar material together.
In 1989 the Library of Congress, in conjunction with the United States Forest Service, undertook
a cooperative project to organize and describe those portions of the Pinchot Papers that concerned
the early period of the conservation movement and the first five years of the Forest Service from
1890 to 1910. Selected records and files were rearranged to document Pinchot's contribution to
the founding of the conservation movement. Due to the interfiling, transposition, and removal of
material that resulted from this reorganization, gaps occurred in the former sequence of
arrangement of the manuscript containers. These gaps are identified in the container list by the
statement "removed from collection." Final processing of this segment of the Pinchot Papers was
completed in 1991.
In addition to the rearrangement of a portion of the collection between 1989 and 1991, new
material was appended in 1985 and 1998. Other revisions were made in 2007, and the finding aid
was revised again in 2011.
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