A Collection in the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 43432
Library of Virginia
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Allen Telford Edmunds was born 8 December 1903 near Banfield, Michigan, to Arthur Madison Edmunds and Grace Fisher Edmunds.
Edmunds graduated from Michigan State College in 1926 and did post-graduate work at the National Recreation School at New
York University in 1928-1929. He worked as superintendent of recreation for Amsterdam, New York, starting in 1929, and began
working for the National Park Service in 1937. During World War II, Edmunds served in the United States Navy. He returned
to the Park Service after the war. Edmunds' work was key in establishing parks along the Great Lakes and along the Atlantic
and Gulf Coast shores. Edmunds retired from the Park Service in 1969, but remained as a special assistant to the regional
director of the Philadelphia office of the National Park service until 1976. Edmunds married Margaret Rae Sleight (d. 1981)
20 June 1929 and they had two sons. Edmunds died 16 January 1985 in Richmond, Virginia.
Papers, 1917-2000, of Allen Telford Edmunds (1903-1985) of Michigan and Richmond, Virginia, consisting of biographical information
on Edmunds; correspondence; family budgets; Edmunds' travelogues; secondary, high school, and college diplomas; accounts of
his work in the National Park Service (NPS); reports on NPS projects he worked on along the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Coast;
scrapbook and brochures from his participation in the World Recreation Congress in Japan and Taiwan in 1964; professional
certificates and awards; college yearbook; and other papers.
American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society Gold Pugsley award, 1961
Box 1 Folder 7
Certificate and citation from the Department of the Interior, 1967
Box 1 Folder 8
Slide show presentations (scripts only): introductory material, National Park Service in Crisis-Yes or No, Brief Items on
China, India-Sri Lanka-Nepal, National Parks are Where You Find Them, Hungary-Poland-Romania, The Balkan States
Box 1 Folder 9
Slide show presentations (scripts only): Egypt-Jordan-and Israel and Rome, Italy, Russia and Scandinavian Nations, Mexico,
Let's Worship Here, A Journey to Antiquity, Portugal and Spain-the People the Palaces the Cathedrals, The Constant Vigil
Box 1 Folder 10
Slide show presentations (scripts only): Glimpses of Parks and Gardens-Europe and the Orient, A Whisper of the Orient, The
Great Lakes Shoreline Survey,
Box 1 Folder 11
Miscellaneous papers
Box 1 Folder 12
Humor
Box 1 Folder 13
Kenbridge United Methodist Church
Box 1 Folder 14
The North Call , early and late March 1981
Box 1 Folder 15
The Mackinaw Journal , 19 February 1985
Box 1 Folder 16
Clippings, 1984
Box 1 Folder 17
"Central Southeastern Regional Recreation Study--Interim report, "
August 1942
Box 1 Folder 18
"Our Fourth Shore: Great Lakes Shoreline, "
1959
Box 1 Folder 19
"Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore: draft General Management Plan, "
January 1981
Box 1 Folder 20
"Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore: General Management Plan, "
September 1981
Box 1 Folder 21
Information on the Great Lakes National Lakeshore areas
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