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Correspondence concerning the Yorktown Sesquicentennial, scripts for guides and tours (with some typed versions), research, employee schedules and the development of the Colonial National Historical Park.

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Correspondence and memos with suppliers, National Park Service, other historical organizations, other National Parks, local citizens, staff and others.  Topics included museum activities, tours with visitors, equipment orders, lantern slides, display ideas, memberships in historical organizations, administration and research.

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Correspondence and memos about visitors and tours, supplies, geological survey, furnishings and plans for 1933.

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Correspondence and memos about the hurricane of 1933, visit of Governor Pollard and Fairfax Harrison, publications, expansion of park, research, slides and reports on "Development of the National Monument" and "Historical and Archival Projects under F.E. R. A." Correspondents include the Williamsburg Holding Corporation and G.G. Swem of the Library of Congress.

Scope and Contents Topics include debris cleanup after the big storm; support by Kenneth Chorley of Williamsburg Holding Corporation; creation of a Business and Professional Association with representatives from Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown, eventually named the "Williamsburg-Jamestown-Yorktown Associaion" with related discussion and conference on programs for school children and a committee on a joint pamphlet; building projects for Yorktown and the Yorktown area; Post Office building problems and a...

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Joint projects of the Williamsburg-Jamestown-Yorktown Association; Battlefield development; water and spring issues; entranceway; roads and landscape issues; development of the Fuel Oil and Cook Tract; Moore House and Administrator's Residence; report to the Director of the National Park Service with outline of proposed work projects for the four camps in Yorktown and personnel matters with Yorktown and the National Park Service,

Scope and Contents Adminstrative concerns; personnel concerns; wording for publicity material; relief map of Yorktown; list of trucks used at Yorktown; invitations to historians, former Governor Pollard, President Bryan of William and Mary and others to visit Yorktown; Superintendant's Resident; road right of ways; recommendation for a volunteer fire department, Virginia Public School System; purchase of parkway tracts; recommendation that all foundations in excavated buildings be measured in Williamsburg and...

Scope and Contents Topics include Fire House addition, indian remains and relics, Warner Hall, Moore House mechanical problems, builiding a Utility Building, Swan Tavern office space, possibility of constructing the Colonial Courthouse, proposal to restore the Lightfoot House, research and acquisition of items for museum. Letters include Flickinger to Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, about recent visit to Washington, Pendleton Clark's confidential letter to Flickinger about the Government acquiring...

Scope and Contents Includes a February 21, 1836 memo to the files from Sarah C. Armistead, Assistant-Clerk-Stenographer, about seeing for the first time "Mr. Edward Riley's memorandum of November 25, 1935, to Mr. Flickinger, with reference to my suggestion that the designation Yorktown Victory Monument, rather than Yorktown Centennial Monument, be officially recommended to the Division of Geographic Names...." Correspondence on topics related to Jamestown and Yorktown. Press release to "Ye Olde York Times"...