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Box 1

 Container

Contains 18 Results:

Scrapbooks, 1964-1976

 Sub-Series — Box: 1
Scope and Content

The scrapbooks are actually four 3-ring binders dating from April 1964 to approximately August 1976. All of them consist of newspaper clippings pasted onto notebook paper and pertain to the Mineral King development controversy and related issues.

Dates: 1964-1976

News Releases, 1967-1977

 Sub-Series — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Scope and Content

This folder consists of several news releases issued between 1967 and 1977 pertaining to the proposed development of Mineral King. The releases were issued from the United States Department of Agriculture, the Sierra Club, Congressman Jerome R. Waldie, and California Assemblyman Alan Sieroty.

Dates: 1967-1977

News and Newsletters, 1965-1978

 Sub-Series — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Scope and Content

There are a few newsletters of the Mineral King District Association in this folder; however, most of the newsletters are those of the Sierra Club's Mineral King Task Force.

Dates: 1965-1978

Publicity, 1968-1973

 Sub-Series — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Scope and Content

Much of the contents in this folder consists of flyers regarding a "March on Disneyland" in 1969, a screening of a documentary film on Mineral King in 1972, and a Mineral King "Hike-In" in 1968.

Dates: 1968-1973

Testimony, 1976-1978

 Sub-Series — Box: 1, Folder: 24
Scope and Content

This folder contains material pertaining to testimonies and depositions on the Mineral King controversy and includes information from the Subcommittee on National Parks and Insular Affairs, Sierra Club's Mineral King Task Force, the Desomount Club, Skiers to Keep Mineral King Natural, and various individuals commenting on a variety of bills and resolutions introduced between 1976 and 1978.

Dates: 1976-1978

Bills, 1967-1977

 Sub-Series — Box: 1, Folder: 25
Scope and Content This folder contains the text of a number of bills introduced between 1967 and 1977 including the following:H.R. 9629: To transfer the Sequoia National Game Refuge to Sequoia National Park (1967)H.R. 16331, H.R. 3089, H.R. 5272, H.R. 5752, H.R. 6823, H.R. 6882: To enlarge the Sequoia National Park in the State of California (1972, 1973, 1975)S. 3322, H.R. 13280, H.R. 4354: To enlarge the Sequoia National Park in the State of California by adding to such...
Dates: 1967-1977

Government Publications, 1964-1977

 Sub-Series — Box: 1, Folder: 26
Scope and Content

Several of the items in this folder are publications of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, including a booklet called Mineral King: A Planned Recreation Development (1969) and a sample "Prospectus for a proposed Recreational Development at Mineral King in the Sequoia National Forest" (1965).

Dates: 1964-1977

Miscellany, 1967-1977

 Series — Box: 1, Folder: 27
Scope and Content

This slim folder includes several miscellaneous items such as a California Highway Commission "Route Adoption Report" (1967), nine completed handwritten public surveys on Mineral King, a typed bibliography on Mineral King, a couple of maps that show where Mineral King is in Sequoia National Forest, a Walt Disney Productions "Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders" (1972), etc.

Dates: 1967-1977