Hugh Hammond Bennett and the creation of the Soil Conservation Service

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   1933a. Letter to Rexford G. Tugwell. Folder “Erosion,” General Correspondence, Record Group 16. College Park, MD: National Archives and Records Administration. September 20, 1933.
2. 1. Bennett H.H.

   1933b. A Plan for Erosion Control Under the Erosion Section of the Public Works Administration Corporation. File 1-275 Soil Erosion, Central Classified Files, Record Group 48. College Park, MD: National Archives and Records Administration.
3. 1. Bennett H.H.

   1933c. Memorandum of Inquiry to the Secretary of the Interior With Respect to Advisability of Using Additional Funds for Additional Regional Erosion-Control Projects by the Soil Erosion Service. File 1-275 Soil Erosion, Central Classified Files, Record Group 48. College Park, MD: National Archives and Records Administration. November 23, 1933.
4. 1. Bennett H.H.

   1933d. Letter to Harold L. Ickes. File 1-275 Soil Erosion, Central Classified Files, Record Group 48. College Park, MD: National Archives and Records Administration. November 23, 1933.
5. 1. Bennett H.H.

   1934a. Letter to Harold L. Ickes. File 1-275 Soil Erosion, Central Classified Files, Record Group 48. College Park, MD: National Archives and Records Administration. September 18, 1934.
6. 1. Bennett H.H.

   1934b. A Brief Statement of the Cooperative Activities Carried Out Between the Soil Erosion Service, the Civil Works Administration and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. File 1-275 Soil Erosion, Central Classified Files, Record Group 48. College Park, MD: National Archives and Records Administration.
7. 1. Bennett H.H.

   1934c. Bennett to E.K. Burlew, August 11, 1934, and Burlew to Bennett, August 16, 1934. File 1-275 Soil Erosion, Central Classified Files, Record Group 48. College Park, MD: National Archives and Records Administration. September 18, 1934.
8. 1. Bennett H.H.

   1934d. Letter to Harold L. Ickes. File 1-275 Soil Erosion, Central Classified Files, Record Group 48. College Park, MD: National Archives and Records Administration. January 3, 1934 (Approved by Ickes, January 24, 1934).
9. 1. Bennett H.H.

   1934e. Letter to Harold L. Ickes, Handwritten at bottom of page “Approved, H.L.I.” File 1-275 Soil Erosion, Central Classified Files, Record Group 48. College Park, MD: National Archives and Records Administration. May 29, 1934.
10. 1. Bennett H.H.

    1934f. Letter to Harold L. Ickes. Folder Soil Erosion, Secretary of the Interior File, 1928-1946, Harold L. Ickes Papers, Manuscript Division. Washington, DC: Library of Congress. April 23, 1934.
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    1934h. Letter to Harold L. Ickes. File 1-275 Soil Erosion, Central Classified Files, Record Group 48. College Park, MD: National Archives and Records Administration. November 24, 1934.
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    1934i. Letter to Harold L. Ickes. File 1-275 Soil Erosion, Central Classified Files, Record Group 48. College Park, MD: National Archives and Records Administration. November 28, 1934.
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    1934j. Letter to Harold L. Ickes. File 1-275 Soil Erosion, Central Classified Files, Record Group 48. College Park, MD: National Archives and Records Administration. December 31, 1934.
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    1935a. Letter to Harold L. Ickes. Folder Soil Erosion, Secretary of the Interior File, 1928-1946, Harold L. Ickes Papers, Manuscript Division. Washington, DC: Library of Congress. March 11, 1935,
16. 1. Bennett H.H.

    1959. The Hugh Bennett Lectures. Raleigh, NC: The Agricultural Foundation, Inc.
17. 1. Brink W.

    1951. Brink, Big Hugh: The Father of Soil Conservation. New York: Macmillan.
18. 1. Daniels J.

    1951. Tar Heels: A Portrait of North Carolina. New York: Dodd, Mead.
19. 1. Duley F.L.

    1935. Letter to George A. Barnes. File 107.2, General Files, 1933-1935, Record Group 114. College Park, MD: National Archives and Records Administration. March 21, 1935.
20. 1. Fechner R.

    1935. Robert Fechner, Emergency Conservation Work, to Ferdinand Silcox, Chief, Forest Service, A.B. Cammerer, Director, National Park Service, Duncan K. Major, Jr., Colonel, General Staff, War Department. File OF 6U Soil Erosion, Official File. Hyde Park, NY: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library. March 9, 1935.
21. 1. Helms D.

    1984. Walter Lowdermilk's Journey: Forester to Land Conservationist Environmental Review 8(2):132-145.

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22. 1. Helms D.

    1985. The civilian conservation corps: Demonstrating the value of soil. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 40(2):184-188.

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23. 1. Ickes H.L.

    1933. Letter to Hugh H. Bennett. File 1-275 Soil Erosion, Central Classified Files, Record Group 48. College Park, MD: National Archives and Records Administration. November 20, 1933.
24. 1. Ickes H.L.

    1934a. Letter to Robert Fechner. File 1-275 Soil Erosion, Central Classified Files, Record Group 48. College Park, MD: National Archives and Records Administration. February 22, 1934.
25. 1. Ickes H.L.

    1934b. Letter to Hugh H. Bennett. Folder Soil Erosion, Secretary of the Interior File, 1928-1946, Harold L. Ickes Papers, Manuscript Division. Washington, DC: Library of Congress. April 21, 1934.
26. 1. Ickes H.L.

    1934c. Letter to E.K. Burlew. File 1-275 Soil Erosion, Central Classified Files, Record Group 48. College Park, MD: National Archives and Records Administration. October 28, 1934.
27. 1. Ickes H.L.

    1934d. Letter to E. K. Burlew. File 1-275 Soil Erosion, Central Classified Files, Record Group 48. College Park, MD: National Archives and Records Administration. December 1, 1934.
28. 1. Ickes H.L.

    1935a. Letter to Rufus Poole. Secretary of the Interior File, 1928-1946, Harold L. Ickes Papers, Manuscript Division. Washington, DC: Library of Congress. March 2, 1935.
29. 1. Ickes H.L.

    1935b. Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt. File OF 6U Soil Erosion, Official File. Hyde Park, NY: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library. March 21, 1935.
30. 1. Ickes H.L.

    1953. The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes: The First Thousand Days, 1933-1936. Volume 1. New York: Simon and Schuster.
31. 1. Kelly L.C.

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32. 1. Landon A.M.

    1935. Letter to The President (telegram). File OF 732 Soil Erosion, Official File. Hyde Park, NY: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library. March 20, 1935.
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    1969. Walter Clay Lowdermilk--Soil, Forest, and Water Conservation and Reclamation in China, Israel, Africa, and the United States. Oral History Collection No. 17. Berkeley, CA: University of California, Bancroft Library.
34. 1. New York Times

    . 1934. Dust Storms Due to Soil Erosion. May 14, 1934.
35. 1. New York Times

    . 1935. Black Dust Storm Chokes Midwest. March 21, 1935.
36. 1. Nixon E.B. Jr.

    1957. Franklin D. Roosevelt & Conservation, 1911-1945. Volume 1. Hyde Park, NY: General Services Administration, National Archives and Records Service, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.
37. 1. Richberg D.

    1935a. Letter to Henry A. Wallace. Folder Erosion, General Correspondence, Record Group 16. College Park, MD: National Archives and Records Administration. February 11, 1935.
38. 1. Richberg D.

    1935b. Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Folder Erosion, General Correspondence, Record Group 16. College Park, MD: National Archives and Records Administration. February 21, 1935.
39. 1. Roosevelt F.D.

    1935a. Letter to Marvin McIntyre. Note attached to letter of Henry Wallace to Roosevelt, March 7, 1935. File OF 6U Soil Erosion, Official File. Hyde Park, NY: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library. March 9, 1935.
40. 1. Roosevelt F.D.

    1935b. Letter to Harold L. Ickes. File OF 6U Soil Erosion, Official File. Hyde Park, NY: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library. March 20, 1935.
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    1935c. Letter to Harold L. Ickes. Folder Soil Erosion, Secretary of the Interior File, 1928-1946, Harold L. Ickes Papers, Manuscript Division. Washington, DC: Library of Congress. March 22, 1935
42. 1. Schlesinger A.M.

    1958. The Coming of the New Deal. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company.
43. 1. Shephard W.

    1934. Letter to Harold L. Ickes. File 1-275 Soil Erosion, Central Classified Files, Record Group 48. College Park, MD: National Archives and Records Administration. December 18, 1934.
44. 1. Soil Erosion Service

    1935. Field Order enclosed with Bennett to Ickes. File 1-275 Soil Erosion, Central Classified Files, Record Group 48. College Park, MD: National Archives and Records Administration. January 30, 1935.
45. Statutes at Large. 1933. 48 Stat. 22.
46. 1. Telegrams

    1935. These telegrams may be found in file 107.2, General Files, 1933-1935, Record Group 114. College Park, MD: National Archives and Records Administration.
47. 1. Telephone transcripts

    . 1935. Folder Soil Erosion, Secretary of the Interior File, 1928-1946, Harold L. Ickes Papers, Manuscript Division. Washington, DC: Library of Congress. March 22, 1935.
48. 1. Tugwell R.

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49. 1. US Congress. Senate

    . 1935. Congressional Record, 74th Cong., 1st sess., 1935, 79 pt. 5:5645.

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50. 1. US Congress. House

    . 1935. Quoted in US Congress, House, Subcommittee of the Committee on the Public Lands, Soil Erosion Program. Hearings on HR 7054, 74th Cong., 1st. sess., 20, 21, 22, 25 March, 1935.
51. 1. USDA SCS (USDA Soil Conservation Service)

    . 1935. Report of the Chief of the Soil Conservation Service. Washington, DC: USDA Soil Conservation Service.
52. 1. USDOI (US Department of the Interior)

    . 1934. Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1934. Washington, DC: US Department of the Interior.
53. 1. Washington Evening Star

    . 1935. Cleveland Has Dust Fall. March 22, 1935, p. A-9.
54. 1. Washington Post

    . 1935a. Dust Storms Menace Midwest Wheat Crop—Kansas City Paralyzed—Deaths in Scourge Mount to Six. March 21, 1935, p. 1.
55. 1. Washington Post

    . 1935b. D.C. Invaded By Dust Storm From Midwest. March 22, 1935, pp. 1 and 5.