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1. Annual Report of the Director of the National Park Service, 1922, p. 130.
2. Thomson to Hall, July 25, 1925, RG 79, Central Files, 1907-39, File No. 700-01, Part 1, Crater Lake, Nature Study.
3. Miller to Russell, March 18, 1946, Interpretation Division Files, Crater Lake National Park.
4. “The Plans and Activities of the Nature Guide Service at Crater Lake National Park,” June 8, 1928, RG 79, Region IV, Central Classified Files, 1923-42, Box 16, Folder No. 207-04, Educational Activities Reports By Parks, FRC, San Bruno.
5. Annual Report of the Director of the National Park Service, 1927, RG 79, Central Files, 1907-39, File No. 207-001, Part 2, Crater Lake, Reports, Annual.
6. Miller to Merriam, July 28, 1927, RG 79, Central Files, 1907-39, File No. 700-01, Part 1, Crater Lake, Nature Study.
7. Homuth to Hall, August 22, 1928, RG 79, Region IV, Central Classified Files, 1923-42, Box 16, Folder No. 207-04, Educational Activities Reports by Parks, FRC, San Bruno, and “Crater Lake Nature Notes,” July 1928, Library Collection, Crater Lake National Park.
8. Annual Report of the Director of the National Park Service, 1929, pp. 67, 170-71, 173. A plan of operation and organization of the park nature guide service for 1929 was prepared by Homuth. A copy of the plan may be seen in Appendix A.
9. “Plan of Administration of the Educational Activities of Crater Lake National Park,” Approved August 10, 1929, RG 79, Central Files, 1907-39, File No. 840, Part 1, Crater Lake, Educational Activities and Methods (General).
10. Medford Mail Tribune, February 25, 1930, Steel Scrapbooks, Crater Lake, No. 41, Vol. 9, Museum Collection, Crater Lake National Park.
11. Annual Report of the Director of the National Park Service, 1930, pp. 87-88.
12. “Memorandum Regarding Relation of Aesthetic to Scientific Study in an Educational Program at Crater Lake,” by John C. Merriam, June 14, 1932, RG 79, Central Files, 1907-39, File No. 840, Part I, Crater Lake, Educational Activities and Methods (General). Also see John C. Merriam, “Crater Lake: A Study in Appreciation of Nature,” The American Magazine of Art (August 1933). Dr. Worth Ryder, Associate Professor of Art at the University of California, Berkeley, participated with Merriam in preparing the memorandum. Ryder to Merriam, September 6, 1932 (and enclosures), RG 79, Central Files, 1907-39, File No. C.L. 207, Worth Ryder, Part 1, Crater Lake, Administration and Personnel, Worth Ryder.
13. Annual Report of the Director of the National Park Service, 1930, p. 192, and “The Sinnott Memorial in the Crater Lake National Park,” Science, LXXIII (April 10, 1931), 384-85.
14. Portland Oregonian, July 17, 1931, and Congressional Record, Senate, February 25, 1932, Vol. 75, No. 57, 4886-90.
15. Libbey had been head of the Department of Geology at Drury College in Springfield, Missouri.
16. See correspondence and reports in RG 79, Central Files, 1907-39, File No. 620-049, Part 1, Crater Lake, Buildings, Observatories, 1929-31, and “Progress Report on the Development of the Sinnott Memorial and Related Educational Activities, Crater Lake National Park, June 1931 to October 1931,” Crater Lake National Park Files, Division of History, Washington Office, National Park Service. Also see “A Brief Guide to the Parapet Views, Sinnott Memorial, Crater Lake National Park,” RG 79, Central Files, 1933-49, File No. 504-04, Part 1, Crater Lake, Publications, Maps.
17. Annual Report, Crater Lake National Park, 1932, RG 79, Central Files, 1933-49, File No. 207-001.2, Part One, Crater Lake, Reports (General), Director’s Annual Report, andAnnual Report of the Director of the National Park Service, 1932, p. 95.
18. “Preliminary Report on the Crater Lake Project: A Study of Appreciation of Nature Beauty, Sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the University of Oregon,” Report Prepared by R.W. Leighton, Executive Secretary of Research, University of Oregon, May 1, 1934, RG 79, Central Files, 1933-49, File No. 501-04, Special Articles on N.P. (Speeches). Earlier in August 1933 Merriam had published an article on the subject study in the American Magazine of Art.
