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About the Crater Lake NP Oral
History Series
Interviewer: Stephen R. Mark,
Crater Lake National Park Historian
Interview
Location and Date:
At Emmett Blanchfield's residence in Sacramento,
California, March 7, 1995
Transcription:
Transcribed by Chris Prout, August 1997
Biographical
Summary (from the interview introduction)
Blanchfield, Emmett U. Forestry technician 1930, ranger-naturalist
1931; later became landscape architect for the U.S. Forest Service and
California State Parks.
I knew of Emmett Blanchfield’s work as
long ago as 1988, while on a visit to Mount Hood that summer. An old address
frustrated my efforts to contact him until a historian who worked on the
Historic American Buildings Survey project for Timberline Lodge contacted me.
She gave me some valuable insights about the connections between National Park
Service and U.S. Forest Service projects in the 1930’s, along with Mr. Blanchfield’s current location, during the course of our telephone conversation.
Less than three months later I made my way to Sacramento in conjunction with
other business and spent the better part of a day interviewing him.
Much of the interview is captured by the
following transcription, but we also had riveting conversations over dinner the
previous evening and met again for breakfast.
Materials
Associated with this interview on file at the
Dick Brown library at Crater Lake National
Park's Steel Visitor Center
taped interview;
additional notes
and correspondence in file along with manuscript concerning his work at Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood. Donated a number of photos take at CRLA in
193 1. Slide taken of him at the time of interview. Explanatory field notes
which summarize these conversations, along with
subsequent correspondence, are in the park’s
history files.
To the reader:
I knew of Emmett Blanchfield’s work as
long ago as 1988, while on a visit to Mount Hood that summer. An old address
frustrated my efforts to contact him until a historian who worked on the
Historic American Buildings Survey project for Timberline Lodge contacted me.
She gave me some valuable insights about the connections between National Park
Service and U.S. Forest Service projects in the 1930’s, along with Mr. Blanchfield’s current location, during the course of our telephone conversation.
Less than three months later I made my way to Sacramento in conjunction with
other business and spent the better part of a day interviewing him.
Much of the interview is captured by the
following transcription, but we also had riveting conversations over dinner the
previous evening and met again for breakfast. Explanatory field notes which
summarize these conversations, along with subsequent correspondence, are in the
park’s history files.
Stephen R. Mark
August 1997
Crater Lake National Park, National Park
Service, Crater Lake, Oregon 97604
