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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-080-002
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Interior, and pertain to a lecture given by Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall titled, "The Conservation Challenge of the Sixties."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-079a-010
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Interior. Topics include the creation of the Bureau of Recreation, supplemental appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Colorado River salinity problem, and the saline water conversion program. Also included in this folder is a copy of a speech by Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall at the White House Conference on Conservation. [Notes: Contains 16 photographic prints (JFKPOF-PH-343, JFKPOF-PH-488P, JFKPOF-PH-489P, JFKPOF-PH-490P, JFKPOF-PH-491P, JFKPOF-PH-492P, JFKPOF-PH-493P, JFKPOF-PH-494P, JFKPOF-PH-495P, JFKPOF-PH-496P, JFKPOF-PH-497P, JFKPOF-PH-498P, JFKPOF-PH-499P, JFKPOF-PH-500P, JFKPOF-PH-501P, JFKPOF-PH-502P). Photographic materials originally separated without documentation (p0059-p0087) have been reintegrated into this folder as the most logical location.]
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-079a-009
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Interior, and consists of a press relations report on the saline water conversion demonstration plant in Freeport, Texas.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-079a-008
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Interior. Topics include a visit to Washington, D.C. by Robert Frost; a report by Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall on a parks conservation program, and a proposed Summer White House in Newport, Rhode Island. Of note is a brochure titled, "A Proposed Prairie National Park."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-079a-010-p0062
Model of the sod-buster plow presented to President John F. Kennedy to commemorate the centennial of the Homestead Act. A news release dated February 13, 1962, from the Department of the Interior declared that the commemoration launched a year-long national observance of the Homestead Act and other land anniversaries of 1962. Standing left to right are: Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, President Kennedy, Willis G. Scholl, President of the Farm Equipment Institute, Chicago, and C.R. Gutermuth, Chairman of the Public Domain Sesquicentennial Commission, Washington, D.C. This photograph is also in Abbie Rowe (National Park Service) series, White House Photographs collection (see JFKWHP-AR7040-B).
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-079a-010-p0064
Model of the sod-buster plow in a display case. Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, Willis G. Scholl, President of the Farm Equipment Institute, Chicago, and C.R. Gutermuth, Chairman of the Public Domain Sesquicentennial Commission, Washington, D.C., presented the model to President John F. Kennedy to commemorate the centennial of the Homestead Act. A news release dated February 13, 1962, from the Department of the Interior declared that the commemoration launched a year-long national observance of the Homestead Act and other land anniversaries of 1962.
Photograph
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-079a-010-p0060
Model of the sod-buster plow presented to President John F. Kennedy to commemorate the centennial of the Homestead Act. A news release dated February 13, 1962, from the Department of the Interior declared that the commemoration launched a year-long national observance of the Homestead Act and other land anniversaries of 1962. Standing left to right are: Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, President Kennedy, Willis G. Scholl, President of the Farm Equipment Institute, Chicago, and C.R. Gutermuth, Chairman of the Public Domain Sesquicentennial Commission, Washington, D.C. This photograph is also in the Abbie Rowe (National Park Service) series, White House Photographs collection (see JFKWHP-AR7040-A).