(Parks - California) PERL, Frederick. ACQUISITION-DEVELOPMENT-MAINTENANCE
OF CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS. N.P., 1939.
A typed manuscript of an
unpublished paper by Frederick Perl, a landscape architect and former
city forester for Minneapolis, written "to acquaint the reader with some
of the problems contained in the acquisition, development and maintenance
of our California State Park System." Noting that the development of the
State Park movement has created "a new field in which no large body of
accepted practice has been built," Perl recognizes the contributions of
individual private organizations such as Sierra Cub, the Redwoods League,
etc. and briefly summarizes the ground-breaking report prepared
by F. L. Olmsted Jr. in 1929 for the state park commission. He critically
analyses the way in which state park lands have been acquired and the
role the landscape architect should play in both acquisition and development.
His proposed components of state park design are listed under the categories
of "beauty" and "utility". A double page list of 70 parks with features,
facilities, concessions and sports offered is included. Perl refers to
a map for locations using corresponding numbers, but no such map is included.
The manuscript may have been written for publication, but we find no record
of it in any form, and the only item by Perl that we find in OCLC is his
report on "The proposed State Beach Park at Point Dune, California." published
in 1940 by Marblehead Land Co. Typed manuscript in paper binder, 28 x 22
cm; 26 pp. printed on rectos only + double-page chart. Paper office binder.
$95.00
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