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Dallas Municipal Archives
1500 Marilla St.
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Dallas, Texas 75201
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Dallas Department of Park and Recreation General Subject Files, 1911-Current

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Collection 1995-023

Overview

Repository	Office of the City Secretary Dallas Municipal Archives 1500 Marilla Street, 5D South Dallas, Texas 75201
Creator	Dallas Department of Park and Recreation
Title	Dallas Department of Park and Recreation General Subject Files
Dates	1911-Current
Quantity	6.72 feet linear
Abstract	Correspondence, memoranda, manuscript, typescript, printed reports, printed materials, photographic prints, maps, and architectural plans and drawings.
Identification	1995-023
Language	Records are in English

Scope and Content

The City of Dallas Park and Recreation Department provides leisure, recreational and cultural activities for the citizens of Dallas and the general public and maintains more than 21,000 park acres including 4,400 surface acres of water at 17 park sites, 17,196 acres of greenbelt/park land, and 61.6 miles of jogging and bike trails at 24 locations. Dallas has over 400 individual parks, including recreational facilities such as community centers, swimming pools, athletic fields, and a metropolitan zoo. The City's first two parks, City Park (purchased in 1876) and Fair Park (purchased in 1904) predate the organization of the Park and Recreation Department. In response to management issues and concerns, an administrative Park Board was created by City Charter amendment in early 1905, and the first Board members were appointed by Mayor Bryan T. Barry on May 23, 1905.

Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, financial records, reports and studies, plans and drawings, photographs, and printed materials documenting the acquisition, planning and design, maintenance, and history of City of Dallas parks and park facilities between 1911 and 1970.

Organization

The collection is arranged into the following subjects:

• Architect Fees - Concessions

• D - Exall

• Exall - Grauwyler

• Hare - Kidd Springs

• Kidd Springs - Lake Cliff

• Lake Cliff - Music Commission

• National

• O - Randall

• Randall - Stevens

• Stevens - Tenison

• Tennis - Turf Maintenance

• Turf - Winslett

• Y - Zoo

• Photographic prints

The collection also contains oversized materials.

Access

Permission to publish, reproduce, distribute, or use by any and all other current or future developed methods or procedures must be obtained in writing from the Dallas Municipal Archives. All rights are reserved and retained regardless of current or future development or laws that may apply to fair use standards.

Citation

Dallas Department of Park and Recreation General Subject Files, 1911-Current (Box <x>, Folder <y>), Dallas Municipal Archives

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Index Terms

Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)

Dallas -- Texas -- History

Parks -- Texas -- History

Park facilities -- Texas -- History

Texas -- History

Texas -- Description and travel

United States -- History -- 1933-1945

United States. Works Progress Administration

Container List

Box	Folder	Title, Date
		Architect Fees - Concessions
1	1	Architect Fees
	2	Aquarium - Construction - General
	3	General Subject File "B"
	4	Bachman Lake, 1944-1949
	5	Bachman Lake, 1937-1942
	6	Bachman Lake Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC)
	7	Buckner Park Expansion, 1945-1947
	8	Buckner Park
	9	Central Square, 1911
	10	City Park Restorations, 1948-49-50
	11	Concession Contracts, 1950-52
	12	Concessions, 1949-1952
	13	Concessions, 1949
		D - Exall
2	1	General Subject File "D", 1915-1952
	2	Donations - Zoo, 1938-52
	3	Drowning: Billy Dean Roach - Drowned - Lake Cliff, Male, age 5 1/2 years, June 12, 1954
	4	Drowning: Gilbert Golden - Drowned - Fair Park Swimming Pool, June 21, 1952
	5	Drowning: Mansfield Accident, 1945
	6	Drowning: Roy M. Fabion, Jr. - Drowning Lake Cliff Pool, July 14, 1942
	7	Drowning: Earl Norris - Drowned Lake Cliff, June 3, 1952
	8	Drowning: Gladys Stokes (age 38), Griggs Swimming Pool, August 17, 1951
	9	Drowning: Fred Smith - Death - Fair Park Pool, June 6, 1948
	10	Drowning: Padilla Accident, 1948 June
	11	Drowning: Max D Fields - Drowned Lake Cliff
	12	Elmwood, 1934-1951
	13	Employees Retirement Fund
	14	Exall Park (use by Negro children)
		Exall - Grauwyler
3	1	Exall and Exline, 1939-1943
	2	Exline Community House and Stevens Comfort Station
	3	Including Ferris Plaza (USO) and Fretz Park
	4	Forest High Property
	5	Forest Hills
	6	Greiner and Garrett
	7	Garrett Park
	8	Gilliam Estate (proposed park site 1950)
	9	Golf Courses for Negroes (parks)
	10	Golf General, 1945-1949
	11	Grauwyler Park, 1938-1949
		Hare - Kidd Springs
4	1	Hare and Hare, landscape architects, 1937-1944
	2	Herndon
	3	Hines Boulevard (Kindergarten Property)
	4	Inwood Road
	5	Insurance (Fleet), 1950-51
	6	Insurance (Fleet), 1951-52
	7	General Subject Files "F"
	8	General Subject Files "K"
	9	Kidd Springs (Square Dances), 1948-1951
	10	Kidd Springs Park, 1945-1952
	11	Kidd Springs Petition - Additional Land
		Kidd Springs - Lake Cliff
5	1	Kidd Springs Purchase
	2	George E. Kessler, 1911
	3	General Subject Files "L", 1945-1950
	4	Lagow Community Center - Spec
	5	Lanier Pool - Construction
	6	Lanier and Lisbon Playgrounds
	7	Lake Cliff Pool Alterations and Addition Specification - Contract
	8	Lake Cliff
	9	Lake Cliff Lighting System
		Lake Cliff - Music Commission
6	1	Lake Cliff Boat Concession
	2	Lake Cliff Glider Boats, 1946-47
	3	Lincoln Negro High School
	4	Lisbon Pool
	5	Masterplan, (1946 Hare and Hare)
	6	Marsalis Park Zoo Reports, 1945-1950
	7	Marsalis Park, 1942-1948
	8	Marsalis Park, R. J. Stinnett, 1948-1951
	9	Marsalis Park, 1920-1936
	10	Mayor and Commissioners (includes sale of 1/2 acre at Stevens Park to Water Department and other correspondence), 1920-1930
	11	McClellan Will (drinking fountains construction)
	12	Moss Park (Salvation Army) at Ervay and Holmes, 1938-1944
	13	Moss Park (Oak Cliff - reservoirs, etc.)
	14	Moore Park (golf course for Negroes - 8th St. Park, officially named, 6/29/40), 1938-1942
	15	Moore Negro Park (8th Street Park) Original Purchase and Expansion
	16	Monument Plaza (Munger Park and Boulevard (Dumes Street Park)
	17	Motion Pictures
	18	Music Commission
		National
7	1	North American Aviation, Inc. Annual Report 1942, Recreation and Welfare
	2	National Board Office report prepared by L. B. Houston and V. A. Kormerer, Superintendent of Austin Park and Recreation Department
	3	New Parks - Edgemere (Preston Hollow) Park Site
	4	National Youth Administration, 1938-1943
	5	National Recreation Association Civil Defense Project, 1951-52
	6	National Recreation Association, 1943-1950
	7	National Recreation Association, 1950-1951
	8	National Recreation Association, 1932-1942
	9	National Recreation Association, 1940-1947
	10	Conferences - 1944 - Recreation Association Texas Beach and Pool Association; TAAF
		O - Randall
8	1	General Subject Files "O", 1926-1935
	2	Oak Cliff Negro Park, 1939-1949
	3	Oak Lawn Park, 1917-1936
	4	Oak Grove Golf Course (Capitol, Haskell, Fitzhugh: Leased Land), 1923-1939
	5	Park Board Correspondence, 1938-1943
	6	Pike - Bids on Retaining Wall - 1925 (Turney St. Summitt Play Park)
	7	Pollard and Wheeler - American Institute of Park Executives August 31, 1948
	8	American Institute of Park Executives, 1948-1949
	9	Park Executives, 1938-1943
	10	Pool and Golf Passes, 1924-1943
	11	General Subject Files "R" Including Randall Park, 1938-1943
	12	Randall Memorial Grove, 1924-1944
		Randall - Stevens
9	1	Randall Federation Membership Cards
	2	Relief Labor (Texas Relief Commission), 1933-1935
	3	Reverchon Park Ball Diamond, 1939-1948
	4	Reverchon Park Expansion, 1940-1951
	5	Roosevelt Park, 1929-37
	6	Ruthmeade Park, 1921-1925
	7	Stevens Park Housing Project (Easements), 1943-44
	8	Stevens General, 1924-1941
	9	Stevens Golf Course - General, 1944-1952
		Stevens - Tenison
10	1	Stevens Clubhouse and Ground Improvements, 1939-1949
	2	SMU Students
	3	Swimming Pools Junior 1945- Brown, Peeler, Henderson Terry
	4	Swimming Pools, 1940-1943
	5	Swimming Pools, 1943-1952
	6	Sullivan Park, 1931-1938
	7	Swiss Avenue, 1919-1929
	8	Tenison - General, 1946-1951
	9	Tenison Golf Course, 1923-1937
	10	Tenison Clubhouse - Bids and Contract, 1940
	11	Tenison General, 1942-45
		Tennis - Turf Maintenance
11	1	Tennis Courts - Concrete - Henderson Plans, Specs, Bids, Contract, 1944-1946
	2	Texas Recreation Association, 1942-1945
	3	Thomas Hill Park, 1930-1935
	4	Thomas Hill - Purchase, 1944-1953
	5	Tietze Park - Improvements: Swimming Pool - Paving Shelter
	6	Tietze Park, 1923-1942
	7	Tietze Park Expansion, 1944-1945
	8	Tietze Park (Llano Park), 1946-48
	9	Turf Maintenance A and M College, 1952
	10	Turf Maintenance A and M College, 1944-1950
		Turf - Winslett
12	1	Turf Maintenance A and M College, 1946-1948
	2	Mrs. E. P. Turner Plaza, 1912-1940
	3	General Subject Files "V", 1923-1933
	4	General Subject Files "W", 1937-1943
	5	General Subject Files "W", 1918-1936
	6	Wahoo Club Property, 1923-1936
	7	Wahoo Park, 1944-1950
	8	Wahoo Park, 1937-1943
	9	Walford Park, 1930-1933
	10	Walnut Hill Petition for Park, May 24, 1951
	11	West Dallas Picnic Area, 1941-1944
	12	Winnetka Park, 1926-1934
	13	Wheatley Park, 1919-1933
	14	Winslett Plaza, 1924-1935
		Y - Zoo
13	1	W.P.A. Payroll, 1938
	2	General Subject Files "Y", 1935-1944
	3	Zang Boulevard, 1911
	4	Zang Boulevard, 1941-1945
	5	Zoological Society - Dallas Zoo Commission, 1924-1940
	6	Zoo Report, 1923-1930
		Photographic Series
14		Photographic prints: Unidentified land clearing (2), undated [from Box 2, folder 1] Concrete amphitheater seating, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, October 1941 [from Box 4, folder 1] Glider boat, ca. 1947 [from Box 6, folder 2] "Reverchon Park Lighted Baseball Diamond, constructed May 1940" (3) Unidentified man beside automobile, undated [from Box 12, folder 9] "Mrs. W.V. Champion and George F. Walford, Brother and Sister," undated [from Box 12, folder 9] "Officer Parker, Sullivan Park and Mr. Rhone-Park Director (with group of children), undated [from Box 13, folder 4]
		Oversized Items
	1	Oversized plans and drawings
	2	Oversized plans and drawings
	3	Oversized plans and drawings