Guide to the Earle Sumner Draper, Sr. Papers,
1933-1969

Collection Number: 2745

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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Compiled by:
E. Anderson
Date completed:
July 1967
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, Ann Hubert, April-July 2002

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Earle Sumner Draper, Sr. papers, 1933-1969
Collection Number:
2745
Creator:
Earle Sumner Draper, Sr., 1893-
Quantity:
1.3 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Articles, speeches, correspondence, books.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Primarily articles and speeches of Earle Sumner Draper, Sr., city planner. Also includes correspondence concerning a conference on urbanism held in Cambridge, Mass. in March 1942.
Language:
Collection material in English


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Earle Sumner Draper, Sr. received a B.S. in landscape architecture from Massachusetts State College in 1915. He then joined the staff of John Nolen, city planner, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was appointed Nolen's southern representative. For two years he was engaged in town planning, including the layout of Kingsport, Tennessee. In 1917 he established his own firm in Charlotte, North Carolina, becoming the first professionally trained city planner in the Southeast. Draper was involved in the planning of industrial towns, as well as parks, universities, schools, cemeteries, private estates, golf courses, land subdivisions, and landscape projects. In 1933, he left private practice to take the post of Planning Director for the Tennessee Valley Authority. He later advanced to Director of Regional Planning Studies at the TVA; and initiated the planning and construction of the town of Norris, rural freeways, powerhouses, and dams. In 1940 he left the TVA to become assistant administrator of the Federal Housing Administration; he was later appointed deputy commissioner. After World War II, he returned to private practice.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Primarily articles and speeches of Earle Sumner Draper, Sr., city planner. Also includes correspondence concerning a conference on urbanism held in Cambridge, Mass. in March 1942.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Draper, Earle Sumner, Sr., 1893-
United States. Federal Housing Administration.
Tennessee Valley Authority.

Subjects:
City planning.
City planners.

Places:
Kingsport (Tenn.)--City planning.
Norris (Tenn.)--City planning.

Form and Genre Terms:
Speeches.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Earle Sumner Draper, Sr. Papers, #2745. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
Speeches
"Regional Planning in the Tennessee Valley Area," 9 pp. typescript, Baltimore Md., Oct. 11, 1933
Box 1
"The Town Planning Movement," 5 pp. typescript, Knoxville, Tenn., 1 additional draft, Sept. 26, 1933
Box 1
Notes on speech to the Tennessee Garden Clubs, Knoxville, Tenn., May 2, 1934
Box 1
Notes on speech "Land Planning and Housing Activities," Knoxville, Tenn., May 4, 1934
Box 1
Notes on speech, "Country Life Ideals of TVA," Amherst, Mass., May 11, 1934
Box 1
Notes on speech, "Regional Planning," Cambridge, Mass, May 11, 1934
Box 1
Notes on speech to State Teacher's College, Johnson, Tenn., June 29, 1934
Box 1
Notes on speech to the City Planning Institute, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 21, 1934
Box 1
"Large Scale Regional Development," 11 pp. typescript. Summary of above speech, 3 pp. typescript, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 22, 1934
Box 1
Notes on speech, "Land Planning Activities of the TVA and the Significance of Education," 2 pp. typescript, with additional notes, Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 26, 1934
Box 1
"Regional Planning and the Tennessee Valley Authority," 16 pp. typescript, Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 14, 1935
Box 1
"Shall We Plan for the Future? Long Time Planning and Coordination of Planning Functions," Landscape Architecture, July 1935, 4 pp. with notes, Boston Mass., Jan 21-22, 1935
Box 1
"Land Planning in the Tennessee Valley," a radio talk, 3 pp. typescript, Washington, D.C., March 1, 1935
Box 1
"Regional Planning for the Development of Land and Water Resources," 29 pp. typescript with notes. Text of speech in The Commonwealth Review, Mar.-May 1935, 19pp. Eugene, Oregon, March 26, 1935
Box 1
Notes on speech, "Regional Planning," Eugene, Oregon, Mar. 27, 1935
Box 1
"Housing is More than Building Construction," in Bulletin of Georgia School of Technology Proceedings of the Conference of Low Cost Housing, 11 pp., July 1935 issue, notes, Atlanta, Ga., May 3, 1935
Box 1
"The Development of a United Land Program," 13 pp. typescript, with notes, 3 additional drafts. Edited version in University of Tennessee Summer Sessions Report, 6 pp., Knoxville, Tenn., June 22, 1935
Box 1
"Applied Home Economics in TVA Houses," Journal of Home Economics, 8 pp. Dec. 1935, read by Marie White, Chicago, Ill., June 25, 1935
Box 1
"What Price Land Waste," 5 pp. typescript, notes, Knoxville, Tenn., July 15, 1935
Box 1
Notes for a talk before Fairfield County Planning Association, Bridgeport, Conn., July 24, 1935
Box 1
"The City's Part in Regional Development," Public Managament, 4 pp. Nov. 1935, Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 22, 1935
Box 1
Notes on "Regional Planning," and summary of the talk, 3 pp. typescript, Savannah, Ga., Dec. 5, 1935
Box 1
"Development of an Idea in Connection with Discussion of Land Planning," 13 pp. typescript, 2 additional drafts plus notes, Knoxville, Tenn., 1936
Box 1
Notes on "Regional Planning," Cambridge, Mass., 1936
Box 1
Notes on speech in Dayton, Tenn., 1936
Box 1
Notes on "What the Construction of Chickamuga Dam Will Mean to Chattanooga," Chattanooga, Tenn., 1936
Box 1
Notes on talk in Tupelo, Miss., Apr. 23, 1936
Box 1
Notes on talk to TVA employees on Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tenn., Apr. 24, 1936
Box 1
"Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow," 8 pp. typescript with notes, Chattanooga, Tenn., May 28, 1936
Box 1
Notes on "Regional Planning in the Tennessee Valley," Memphis, Tenn.Apr. 13, 1937
Box 1
Notes, Knoxville, Tenn., May. 7, 1937
Box 1
"Where City and Country Meet," 9 pp. typescript, 1 additional draft, plus notes, Detroit, Mich., June 1, 1937
Box 1
Notes of speech to new TVA employees, Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 23, 1937
Box 1
"The Testimony of a Planner," 5 pp. typescript, notes included, Knoxville, Tenn., Mar. 4, 1938
Box 1
Notes of Speech to the Engineer Club, Knoxville, Tenn., Mar. 14, 1938
Box 1
"The Improvement Campaign of 1902-1906," 17 pp. typescript, 1 additional draft plus notes, Harrisburg, Pa., May 6, 1938
Box 1
"Parkways and Freeways," 7 pp. typescript plus notes, Norris, Tenn., May 13, 1938
Box 1
"New Developments in the Planning Field Bearing on the Problems of Municipal Planning," 4 pp. typescript, notes, Minneapolis, Minn., June 21, 1938
Box 1
Speech at inauguration of Radio Station WNRA, 8 pp. typescript, notes, Muscle Shoals, Ala., Nov 17, 1938
Box 1
Notes on "Our Southern Heritage in Gardening," Norris, Tenn., Jan 10, 1939
Box 1
Notes on "Changing Elements on the Growth of Knoxville," Knoxville, Tenn., Mar. 3, 1939
Box 1
"Planning for Water Recreation on a National Scale," 5 pp. typescript, Santa Fe, N. M., Oct. 8-10, 1939
Box 1
Notes on speech at a conference on Planning Problems and Administration, Chicago, Ill., Jan. 19, 1940
Box 1
"The Next Stop in Highway Planning," 19 pp. typescript, notes, University of Tennessee, Mar. 14, 1940
Box 1
"New Recreation Opportunities in the Tennessee Valley," 18 pp. typescript, notes, Knoxville, Tenn., Apr. 22, 1940
Box 1
"The Tennessee Valley Authority and Social Welfare," 20 pp. typescript, notes, Jacksonville, Fla., Apr. 24, 1940
Box 1
"Urban Development in the Southeast: What of the Future?," 13 pp. typescript, notes, Chapel Hill, N.C., May 3, 1940
Box 1
"Private Enterprises in Defense Housing," 15 pp. typescript, The Review of the Society of Resident Apprasiers, 6 pp. Nov. 1940, notes, 2 additional drafts, Chicago, Ill., Nov. 12, 1940
Box 1
"The FHA and Decentralization," 2 pp. typescript, 1 additional draft, notes, Springfield, Mass., Nov. 20, 1940
Box 1
"Urban Redevlopment - High Lights and Side Lights," 18 pp. typescript, notes, 1 additional draft. Extract in Public Management, May 1941, Cincinnati, Ohio, Apr. 17, 1941
Box 1
"'Time is of the Essence' - In Planning," 1 additional draft, notes, 9 pp. typescript, Philadelphia, Pa., May 12, 1941
Box 1
"FHA in the National Defense Effort," 11 pp. typescript, 1 additional draft, notes, Washington D.C., May 16, 1941
Box 1
Notes for Speech of Testimonial Dinner for W.J. Lockwood, Newark, N.J., May 23, 1941
Box 1
Notes for Speech at Univ. of S. Calif. Institute of Gov't., June 9, 1941
Box 1
Discussion Leader at National Housing Inventory, notes, Washington, D.C., June 11, 1941
Box 1
Notes on "Demands of Modern Life in Cities," and additional notes, Falls Village, Conn., Aug. 6, 1941
Box 1
"Rebuilding Programs and the Governemnt," 4 pp. typescript, notes, Baltimore, Md., Oct. 23, 1941
Box 1
Notes on "Putting Plans into Action," Ann Arbor, Mich., Nov. 4, 1941
Box 1
"How Can Our Cities Rebuild," 4 pp. typescript, notes, New York City, Nov. 7, 1941
Box 1
Notes on "Can We Rebuild Our Cities," additional notes, Advanced Press Release on " Urban Redevelopment," Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 18, 1941
Box 1
Notes on "Problems of War Housing," additional notes, N.Y.C., Mar. 26, 1942
Box 1
"War Problems of Private Housing," New England Federal Savings League, Bulletin, 7 pp., Boston, Mass, Sept. 19, 1942
Box 1
"War Housing in 1943," 2 pp. typescript with additional 1 draft, Chicago, Ill., Feb. 6, 1943
Box 1
Notes on talk at FHA 608 Meeting, N.Y.C., Feb. 18, 1943
Box 1
Notes on "Problems of Housing in the Postwar Period," Richmond, Va., Feb. 23, 1943
Box 1
"Postwar Financing of Private Housing," 8 pp. typescript, read by Flavel Shurtleff, Omaha, Nebraska, June 14-16, 1943
Box 1
Notes on speech to the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Seattle, Washington, July 20, 1943
Box 1
"Objectives and Techniques of Postwar Planning," 17 pp. plus 3 previous drafts, typescript - notes, Press Release, 3 pp. typescript, Buffalo, N.Y., Sept. 27, 1943
Box 1
Speech before Northeast Federal Savings League, 13 pp. typescript, 2 drafts, Boston, Mass., Nov. 6, 1943
Box 1
"Speech of Nov. 6 given before New Orleans Builders, Lenders, Etc.," (Radio Speech), 13 pp. typescript; Press Release, 3 pp. typescript, Nov. 27, 1943
Box 1
Notes on speech to Louisville Real Estate Board, additional notes, Louisville, Ky., Apr. 28, 1944
Box 1
"Urban History is City Planning History," 19 pp. typescript, notes, Washington, D.C., May 30, 1944
Box 1
Notes of speech made on West Coast trip, July 9-25, 1944
Box 1
Untitled, 2 pp. typescript, Oct. 1946
Box 1
"Plan and Performance," 8 pp. typescript, notes, Chicago, Ill., Nov. 19, 1946
Box 1
Speech at PHMI Annual Meeting, 1 pp. typescript, Chicago, Ill., Mar. 30, 1948
Box 1
Additional speeches
Press Release - 59th Annual Meeting of American Forestry Association, 3 p. typescript, 1 additional draft, App. 1936
Box 1
Untitled, 3 pp. typescript, App. 1936
Box 1
Untitled, 7 pp. typescript, June 19, 1941
Box 1
Correspondence, Urbanism Conference, Cambridge, Mass., Mar. 5, 1942
Box 1
"Home Building Industry in Wartime," 6 pp. typescript, 1 additional draft, notes, St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 18, 1942
Box 1
"National Association of Home Builders," 2 pp. typescript, Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 16, 1943
Box 1
Articles
"Activity in Southern Mill Village Development," Textile World Journal, 1 pp. reprint, Feb. 7, 1920
Box 1
"Southern Mill Village Development," Textile World, 1 pp. reprint, Feb. 3, 1923
Box 1
"Mill Village Developments," Textile World, 1 pp. reprint, Feb. 9, 1924
Box 1
"Southern Textile Village Planning," reprint from Landscape Architecture, Oct. 1927
Box 1
"Proposed City Planning Improvements for an Industrial Section of La Grange, Ga.," The American City, 2 pp. reprint, June 1930
Box 1
"The New T.V.A. Town of Norris, Tennessee," Press Release, 4 pp. typescript, Nov. 24, 1933
Box 1
"Housing the Workers at Norris Dam," Press Release, 5 pp. typescript, notes, Nov. 25, 1933
Box 1
"The T.V.A. Builds a New Town," for Junior League Magazine, 2 pp. typescript, Dec. 1933
Box 1
"T.V.A. Freeway Will Be a Landscaped Highway of Natural Beauty," The Knoxville News-Sentinel, 2 pp., Jan. 21, 1934
Box 1
"Mild Climate of Tennessee Valley Allows Use of Porches at Norris," The Knoxville News-Sentinel, 1 pp., Feb. 25, 1934
Box 1
"Homes at Norris Will Have Simple Beauty," 1 pp. The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Feb. 25, 1934
Box 1
"The Regional Approach to the Housing Problem," prepared for Duke University Law School Quarterly, Apr. 1934, Mar. 18, 1934
Box 1
"Tennessee Valley Authority Notes," 3 pp. typescript, June 16, 1934
Box 1
"The T.V.A. Town of Norris, Tennessee," 4 pp. typescript for American Civic Association Annual, Aug. 1934
Box 1
"Land Planning Activities of the Tennessee Valley Authority," 3 pp. typescript, Aug. 1934
Box 1
"Coordinated Planning in the Tennessee Valley," 4 pp. Press Release, notes, Sept. 11, 1934
Box 1
"T.V.A. Develops a Wilderness Park," 5 pp. typescript Press Release, Oct. 3, 1934
Box 1
"T.V.A. to Build Fish-Nurseries," 2 pp. typescript Press Release, Oct. 4, 1934
Box 1
Press Release, 1 pp. typescript, notes, Oct. 16, 1934
Box 1
"The Work of the Land Planning and Housing Division," 3 pp. typescript for Information Division, notes, Fall 1934
Box 1
"The New T.V.A. School at Norris, Tennessee," American School and University Annual, 4 pp., Fall 1934
Box 1
"The T.V.A. Freeway," 2 pp. typescript, for American Civic Association Annual, Fall 1934
Box 1
"Forestry and Regional Planning," American Forests, Apr. 1935, 1 pp., Oct. 18, 1934
Box 1
"The Community of Norris," 5 pp. typescript for Information Division, Nov. 1934
Box 1
"The New Town," My Garden and Home, 2 pp., Dec. 1934
Box 1
"T.V.A. Low Cost Housing," 9 pp. typescript for National Association of Housing Officials Annual, Dec. 1934
Box 1
Statement: Prepared for Atlanta, Ga., Conference on Low Cost Housing, 1 pp. typescript, May 3-4, 1935
Box 1
"Housing by the T.V.A.," 4 pp. typescript for American Planning and Civic Annual, Aug. 12, 1935
Box 1
"T.V.A. Planning in Practice," 7 pp. typescript for American Planning and Civic Annual, Aug. 15, 1935
Box 1
"T.V.A.'s Yardstick for Housing," The Architectural Forum 8 pp., 1 additional draft, Sept. 1935
Box 1
"Land Planning in the Tennessee Valley," Plan Age, 6 pp., Dec. 1935
Box 1
"The Shopping Center and Town Offices at the T.V.A. Town of Norris, Tennessee," 5 pp. typescript for the Architectural Record, July 1936
Box 1
"T.V.A. Activities in Landscape Architecture," 3 pp. typescript for Landscape Architecture Magazine, Aug. 1936
Box 1
"Freeway Design Principles Applied on a Rural Road," Engineering News-Record, 4 pp.; "The T.V.A. Freeway Proves Itself," Nov. 12, 1936
Box 1
"The Freeway Principle of Highway Design," 2 pp. typescript, Mar. 1937
Box 1
"Demonstration Parks in the Tennessee Valley," 20 pp. typescript, Mar. 1937
Box 1
"Levels of Planning," The Planner's Journal, 6 pp., Mar.-Apr. 1937
Box 1
"Demonstration Parks in the Tennessee Valley," for Architectural Record, 12 pp. typescript, Apr. 1937
Box 1
"Demonstration Parks in the Tennessee Valley," Parks and Recreation, 15 pp., Apr. 1937
Box 1
"Demonstration Parks in the Tennessee Valley," Parks and Recreation, 15 pp., Apr.-May 1937
Box 1
"Demonstration Parks in the Tennessee Valley," Parks and Recreation, 15 pp., May 1937
Box 1
"T.V.A. Repairs Oust Termites," reprint from American Builder and Building Age, 3 pp., Aug. 1937
Box 1
Report on Baltimore - Washington - Annapolis Area (E.S.D. consultant), Regional Planning, notes, Nov. 1937
Box 1
"Much Ado About Something - Housing," reprint from The American City, 3 pp., Dec. 1937
Box 1
"Tennessee Valley Low-Cost Housing," 4 pp. typescript for American Architecture, Feb. 1938
Box 1
"T.V.A. Low Cost Housing," 11 pp. typescript, rejected by Amercian City, Feb. 1938
Box 1
"T.V.A. Housing Development at Pickwick Dam," 19 pp. typescript, Mar. 1938
Box 1
"What Is This Planning Buisness," The Chattanooga News, July 26, 1938
Box 1
Press Release - Speech at Banquet Inaugurating Radio Station WNRA, Sheffield, Ala. 8 pp. typescript, Nov. 18, 1938
Box 1
"Regional Planning in Practice as Illustrated by T.V.A.," 7 pp., Extrait Des Comptes Rendus Du Congres International De Geographie, 1938
Box 1
"Regional Planning," chapter in Planning for America by George Galloway, (H. Holt and Co. Publishers, New York), Jan. 21, 1941
Box 1
Article for Architectural Forum, Postwar Pattern Series, notes, Aug. 1941
Box 2
Above article condense for Insured Mortgage Portfolio, "The Problem of Urban Redevlopment," 7 pp., notes, Sept. 1941
Box 2
"Administration of Priorities," United States Investor, 3 pp., May 16, 1942
Box 2
"Planning for Adjustment to Changing Conditions," The American City, 2 pp. with notes, May 1944
Box 2
Notes on FHA Financing - 1 pp. typescript, Jan. 2, 1945
Box 2
"Old Houses in Urban Communities," for Better Homes and Gardens, Harper's Magazine, Architectural Forum, 5 pp. typescript, Aug. 9, 1945
Box 2
"Housing," a paragraph, House and Garden, Feb. 1947
Box 2
Books
Greer, Guy, ed. The Problem of the Cities and Towns. Conference on urbanism. Harvard University, Mar. 5-6, 1942. (Earl Draper was a participant.)
Box 2
U.S. Federal Housing Administration. A Handbook on Urban Redevelopment for Cities in the United States. Washington, 1941. (E.S. Draper, Assistant Administrator)
Box 2