Earle Sumner Draper, Sr. papers, 1933-1969.
Collection Number: 2745

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Earle Sumner Draper, Sr. papers, 1933-1969.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2745
Abstract:
Primarily articles and speeches of Earle Sumner Draper, Sr., city planner. Also includes correspondence concerning a conference on urbanism held in Cambridge, Massachusetts in March 1942.
Creator:
Draper, E. S. (Earle Sumner), 1893-1994.
Quanitities:
1.3 cubic feet.
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.
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Earle Sumner Draper, Sr. Papers, #2745. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Scope and content

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.
Scope and content

Also, "Baby's Kingdom," a published baby book compiled by Bertha Draper for her son. Includes photographs, greeting cards, and memorabilia relating to Draper's childhood.
SUBJECTS

Names:
United States. Federal Housing Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
Places:
Norris (Tenn.) -- City planning.
Kingsport (Tenn.) -- City planning.
Subjects:
City planners.
Families -- Massachusetts.
Infants -- Care.
Infants -- History.
City planning.
Form and Genre Terms:
Speeches.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Speeches
Box 1
"Regional Planning in the Tennessee Valley Area," Baltimore Maryland
 October 11, 1933
Scope and Contents
9 pp. typescript
Box 1
"The Town Planning Movement," Knoxville, Tennessee
 September 26, 1933
Scope and Contents
5 pp. typescript, 1 additional draft
Box 1
Notes on speech to the Tennessee Garden Clubs, Knoxville, Tennessee
 May 2, 1934
Box 1
Notes on speech "Land Planning and Housing Activities," Knoxville, Tennessee
 May 4, 1934
Box 1
Notes on speech, "Country Life Ideals of TVA," Amherst, Massachusetts
 May 11, 1934
Box 1
Notes on speech, "Regional Planning," Cambridge, Massachusetts
 May 11, 1934
Box 1
Notes on speech to State Teacher's College, Johnson, Tennessee
 June 29, 1934
Box 1
Notes on speech to the City Planning Institute, St. Louis, Missouri
 October 21, 1934
Box 1
"Large Scale Regional Development," St. Louis, Missouri
 October 22, 1934
Scope and Contents
11 pp. typescript. Summary of above speech, 3 pp. typescript
Box 1
Notes on speech, "Land Planning Activities of the TVA and the Significance of Education," Knoxville, Tennessee
 October 26, 1934
Scope and Contents
2 pp. typescript, with additional notes
Box 1
"Regional Planning and the Tennessee Valley Authority," Cambridge, Massachusetts
 January 14, 1935
Scope and Contents
16 pp. typescript
Box 1
"Shall We Plan for the Future? Long Time Planning and Coordination of Planning Functions," Boston, Massachusetts
 January 21-22, 1935
Scope and Contents
Landscape Architecture, July 1935, 4 pp. with notes
Box 1
"Land Planning in the Tennessee Valley," Washington, D.C.
 March 1, 1935
Scope and Contents
Radio talk, 3 pp. typescript
Box 1
"Regional Planning for the Development of Land and Water Resources," Eugene, Oregon
 March 26, 1935
Scope and Contents
29pp. typescript with notes. Text of speech in The Commonwealth Review, March-May 1935, 19pp.
Box 1
Notes on speech, "Regional Planning," Eugene, Oregon
 March 27, 1935
Box 1
"Housing is More than Building Construction," Atlanta, Georgia
 May 3, 1935
Scope and Contents
Bulletin of Georgia School of Technology Proceedings of the Conference of Low Cost Housing, 11 pp., July 1935 issue, notes
Box 1
"The Development of a United Land Program," Knoxville, Tennessee
 June 22, 1935
Scope and Contents
13 pp. typescript, with notes, 3 additional drafts. Edited version in University of Tennessee Summer Sessions Report, 6 pp.
Box 1
"Applied Home Economics in TVA Houses," Chicago, Illinois
 June 25, 1935
Scope and Contents
Journal of Home Economics, 8 pp. December 1935, read by Marie White
Box 1
"What Price Land Waste," Knoxville, Tennessee,
 July 15, 1935
Scope and Contents
5 pp. typescript, notes
Box 1
Notes for a talk before Fairfield County Planning Association, Bridgeport, Connecticut
 July 24, 1935
Box 1
"The City's Part in Regional Development," Knoxville, Tennessee,
 October 22, 1935
Scope and Contents
Public Management4 pp. November 1935
Box 1
Notes on "Regional Planning," and summary of the talkSavannah, Georgia
 December 5, 1935
Scope and Contents
3 pp. typescript
Box 1
"Development of an Idea in Connection with Discussion of Land Planning," Knoxville, Tennessee
 1936
Scope and Contents
13 pp. typescript, 2 additional drafts plus notes
Box 1
Notes on "Regional Planning," Cambridge, Massachusetts
 1936
Box 1
Notes on speech in Dayton, Tennessee
 1936
Box 1
Notes on "What the Construction of Chickamuga Dam Will Mean to Chattanooga," Chattanooga, Tennessee
 1936
Box 1
Notes on talk in Tupelo, Mississippi
 April 23, 1936
Box 1
Notes on talk to TVA employees on Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee
 April 24, 1936
Box 1
"Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow," Chattanooga, Tennessee
 May 28, 1936
Scope and Contents
8 pp. typescript with notes
Box 1
Notes on "Regional Planning in the Tennessee Valley," Memphis, Tennessee
 April 13, 1937
Box 1
Notes, Knoxville, Tennessee
 May. 7, 1937
Box 1
"Where City and Country Meet," 9 pp. typescript, 1 additional draft, plus notes, Detroit, Michigan
 June 1, 1937
Box 1
Notes of speech to new TVA employees, Knoxville, Tennessee
 September 23, 1937
Box 1
"The Testimony of a Planner," Knoxville, Tennessee
 March 4, 1938
Scope and Contents
5 pp. typescript, notes included
Box 1
Notes of Speech to the Engineer Club, Knoxville, Tennessee
 March 14, 1938
Box 1
"The Improvement Campaign of 1902-1906,Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
 May 6, 1938
Scope and Contents
" 17 pp. typescript, 1 additional draft plus notes
Box 1
"Parkways and Freeways," Norris, Tennessee
 May 13, 1938
Scope and Contents
7 pp. typescript plus notes
Box 1
"New Developments in the Planning Field Bearing on the Problems of Municipal Planning," Minneapolis, Minnesota
 June 21, 1938
Scope and Contents
4 pp. typescript, notes
Box 1
Speech at inauguration of Radio Station WNRA, Muscle Shoals, Alabama
 Nov 17, 1938
Scope and Contents
8 pp. typescript, notes
Box 1
Notes on "Our Southern Heritage in Gardening," Norris, Tennessee
 Jan 10, 1939
Box 1
Notes on "Changing Elements on the Growth of Knoxville," Knoxville, Tennessee
 March 3, 1939
Box 1
"Planning for Water Recreation on a National Scale," Santa Fe, New Mexico
 October 8-10, 1939
Scope and Contents
5 pp. typescript
Box 1
Notes on speech at a conference on Planning Problems and Administration, Chicago, Illinois
 January 19, 1940
Box 1
"The Next Stop in Highway Planning," University of Tennessee
 March 14, 1940
Scope and Contents
19 pp. typescript, notes
Box 1
"New Recreation Opportunities in the Tennessee Valley," Knoxville, Tennessee
 April 22, 1940
Scope and Contents
18 pp. typescript, notes,
Box 1
"The Tennessee Valley Authority and Social Welfare," notes, Jacksonville, Florida
 April 24, 1940
Scope and Contents
20 pp. typescript
Box 1
"Urban Development in the Southeast: What of the Future?," Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
 May 3, 1940
Scope and Contents
13 pp. typescript, notes
Box 1
"Private Enterprises in Defense Housing," The Review of the Society of Resident Appraisers, November 1940, Chicago, Illinois
 November 12, 1940
Scope and Contents
15 pp. typescript; notes, 2 additional drafts, 6 pp. article
Box 1
"The FHA and Decentralization," Springfield, Massachusetts
 November 20, 1940
Scope and Contents
2 pp. typescript, 1 additional draft, notes
Box 1
"Urban Redevelopment - High Lights and Side Lights," Extract in Public Management, May 1941, Cincinnati, Ohio
 April 17, 1941
Scope and Contents
18 pp. typescript, notes, 1 additional draft
Box 1
"'Time is of the Essence' - In Planning," Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 May 12, 1941
Scope and Contents
1 additional draft, notes, 9 pp. typescript
Box 1
"FHA in the National Defense Effort," Washington D.C.
 May 16, 1941
Scope and Contents
11 pp. typescript, 1 additional draft, notes
Box 1
Notes for Speech of Testimonial Dinner for W.J. Lockwood, Newark, New Jersey
 May 23, 1941
Box 1
Notes for Speech at University of Southern California Institute of Government
 June 9, 1941
Box 1
Discussion Leader at National Housing Inventory, Washington, D.C.,
 June 11, 1941
Scope and Contents
Notes
Box 1
Notes on "Demands of Modern Life in Cities," and additional notes, Falls Village, Connecticut
 August 6, 1941
Box 1
"Rebuilding Programs and the Government," Baltimore, Maryland,
 October 23, 1941
Scope and Contents
4 pp. typescript, notes
Box 1
Notes on "Putting Plans into Action," Ann Arbor, Michigan
 November 4, 1941
Box 1
"How Can Our Cities Rebuild," New York City
 November 7, 1941
Scope and Contents
4 pp. typescript, notes
Box 1
Notes on "Can We Rebuild Our Cities," Advanced Press Release on " Urban Redevelopment," Cleveland, Ohio
 November 18, 1941
Box 1
Notes on "Problems of War Housing," additional notes, New York City
 March 26, 1942
Box 1
"War Problems of Private Housing," New England Federal Savings League, Bulletin, Boston, Massachusetts
 September 19, 1942
Scope and Contents
7 pp.
Box 1
"War Housing in 1943," Chicago, Illinois
 February 6, 1943
Scope and Contents
2 pp. typescript with additional 1 draft
Box 1
Notes on talk at FHA 608 Meeting, New York City
 February 18, 1943
Box 1
Notes on "Problems of Housing in the Postwar Period," Richmond, Virginia
 February 23, 1943
Box 1
"Postwar Financing of Private Housing," Omaha, Nebraska
 June 14-16, 1943
Scope and Contents
8 pp. typescript, read by Flavel Shurtleff
Box 1
Notes on speech to the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Seattle, Washington
 July 20, 1943
Box 1
"Objectives and Techniques of Postwar Planning," Buffalo, New York
 September 27, 1943
Scope and Contents
17 pp. plus 3 previous drafts, typescript - notes, Press Release, 3 pp. typescript
Box 1
Speech before Northeast Federal Savings League, Boston, Massachusetts
 November 6, 1943
Scope and Contents
13 pp. typescript, 2 drafts
Box 1
"Speech of November 6 given before New Orleans Builders, Lenders, Etc.," (Radio Speech)
 November 27, 1943
Scope and Contents
13 pp. typescript; Press Release, 3 pp. typescript
Box 1
Notes on speech to Louisville Real Estate Board, additional notes, Louisville, Kentucky
 April 28, 1944
Box 1
"Urban History is City Planning History," Washington, D.C.
 May 30, 1944
Scope and Contents
19 pp. typescript, notes
Box 1
Notes of speech made on West Coast trip
 July 9-25, 1944
Box 1
Untitled
 October 1946
Scope and Contents
2 pp. typescript
Box 1
"Plan and Performance," Chicago, Illinois,
 November 19, 1946
Scope and Contents
8 pp. typescript, notes
Box 1
Speech at PHMI Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois
 March 30, 1948
Scope and Contents
1 pp. typescript
Additional speeches
Box 1
Press Release - 59th Annual Meeting of American Forestry Association
 1936
Scope and Contents
3 p. typescript, 1 additional draft, App.
Box 1
Untitled
 1936
Scope and Contents
3 pp. typescript, App.
Box 1
Untitled
 June 19, 1941
Scope and Contents
7 pp. typescript
Box 1
Correspondence, Urbanism Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts
 March 5, 1942
Box 1
"Home Building Industry in Wartime," St. Louis, Missouri,
 November 18, 1942
Scope and Contents
6 pp. typescript, 1 additional draft, notes
Box 1
"National Association of Home Builders," Cleveland, Ohio,
 November 16, 1943
Scope and Contents
2 pp. typescript
Articles
Box 1
"Activity in Southern Mill Village Development," Textile World Journal
 February 7, 1920
Scope and Contents
1 pp. reprint
Box 1
"Southern Mill Village Development," Textile World
 February 3, 1923
Scope and Contents
1 pp. reprint
Box 1
"Mill Village Developments," Textile World
 February 9, 1924
Scope and Contents
1 pp. reprint
Box 1
"Southern Textile Village Planning," reprint from Landscape Architecture
 October 1927
Box 1
"Proposed City Planning Improvements for an Industrial Section of La Grange, Georgia," The American City
 June 1930
Scope and Contents
2 pp. reprint
Box 1
"The New T.V.A. Town of Norris, Tennessee"
 November 24, 1933
Scope and Contents
Press Release, 4 pp. typescript
Box 1
"Housing the Workers at Norris Dam"
 November 25, 1933
Scope and Contents
Press Release, 5 pp. typescript, notes
Box 1
"The T.V.A. Builds a New Town," for Junior League Magazine
 December 1933
Scope and Contents
2 pp. typescript
Box 1
"T.V.A. Freeway Will Be a Landscaped Highway of Natural Beauty," The Knoxville News-Sentinel
 January 21, 1934
Scope and Contents
2 pp.
Box 1
"Mild Climate of Tennessee Valley Allows Use of Porches at Norris," The Knoxville News-Sentinel
 February 25, 1934
Scope and Contents
1 pp.
Box 1
"Homes at Norris Will Have Simple Beauty," The Knoxville News-Sentinel,
 February 25, 1934
Scope and Contents
1 pp.
Box 1
"The Regional Approach to the Housing Problem," prepared for Duke University Law School Quarterly, April 1934
 March 18, 1934
Box 1
"Tennessee Valley Authority Notes"
 June 16, 1934
Scope and Contents
3 pp. typescript
Box 1
"The T.V.A. Town of Norris, Tennessee," for American Civic Association Annual
 August 1934
Scope and Contents
4 pp. typescript
Box 1
"Land Planning Activities of the Tennessee Valley Authority"
 August 1934
Scope and Contents
3 pp. typescript
Box 1
"Coordinated Planning in the Tennessee Valley"
 September 11, 1934
Scope and Contents
4 pp. Press Release, notes
Box 1
"T.V.A. Develops a Wilderness Park"
 October 3, 1934
Scope and Contents
5 pp. typescript Press Release
Box 1
"T.V.A. to Build Fish-Nurseries"
 October 4, 1934
Scope and Contents
2 pp. typescript Press Release
Box 1
Press Release
 October 16, 1934
Scope and Contents
1 pp. typescript, notes
Box 1
"The Work of the Land Planning and Housing Division," for Information Division
 Fall 1934
Scope and Contents
3 pp. typescript, notes
Box 1
"The New T.V.A. School at Norris, Tennessee," American School and University Annual
 Fall 1934
Scope and Contents
4 pp.
Box 1
"The T.V.A. Freeway," for American Civic Association Annual
 Fall 1934
Scope and Contents
2 pp. typescript
Box 1
"Forestry and Regional Planning," American Forests, April 1935
 October 18, 1934
Scope and Contents
1 pp.
Box 1
"The Community of Norris," for Information Division,
 November 1934
Scope and Contents
5 pp. typescript
Box 1
"The New Town," My Garden and Home
 December 1934
Scope and Contents
2 pp.
Box 1
"T.V.A. Low Cost Housing," for National Association of Housing Officials Annual
 December 1934
Scope and Contents
9 pp. typescript
Box 1
Statement: Prepared for Atlanta, Georgia, Conference on Low Cost Housing
 May 3-4, 1935
Scope and Contents
1 pp. typescript
Box 1
"Housing by the T.V.A.," for American Planning and Civic Annual
 August 12, 1935
Scope and Contents
4 pp. typescript
Box 1
"T.V.A. Planning in Practice," for American Planning and Civic Annual
 August 15, 1935
Scope and Contents
7 pp. typescript
Box 1
"T.V.A.'s Yardstick for Housing," The Architectural Forum
 September 1935
Scope and Contents
8 pp., 1 additional draft
Box 1
"Land Planning in the Tennessee Valley," Plan Age
 December 1935
Scope and Contents
6 pp.
Box 1
"The Shopping Center and Town Offices at the T.V.A. Town of Norris, Tennessee," for the Architectural Record,
 July 1936
Scope and Contents
5 pp. typescript
Box 1
"T.V.A. Activities in Landscape Architecture," for Landscape Architecture Magazine
 August 1936
Scope and Contents
3 pp. typescript
Box 1
"Freeway Design Principles Applied on a Rural Road," Engineering News-Record,; "The T.V.A. Freeway Proves Itself"
 November 12, 1936
Scope and Contents
4 pp.
Box 1
"The Freeway Principle of Highway Design"
 March 1937
Scope and Contents
2 pp. typescript
Box 1
"Demonstration Parks in the Tennessee Valley"
 March 1937
Scope and Contents
20 pp. typescript
Box 1
"Levels of Planning," The Planner's Journal
 March-April 1937
Scope and Contents
6 pp.
Box 1
"Demonstration Parks in the Tennessee Valley," for Architectural Record
 April 1937
Scope and Contents
12 pp. typescript
Box 1
"Demonstration Parks in the Tennessee Valley," Parks and Recreation
 April 1937
Scope and Contents
15 pp.
Box 1
"Demonstration Parks in the Tennessee Valley," Parks and Recreation,
 April-May 1937
Scope and Contents
15 pp.
Box 1
"Demonstration Parks in the Tennessee Valley," Parks and Recreation,
 May 1937
Scope and Contents
15 pp.
Box 1
"T.V.A. Repairs Oust Termites," reprint from American Builder and Building Age
 August 1937
Scope and Contents
3 pp.
Box 1
Report on Baltimore - Washington - Annapolis Area (E.S.D. consultant), Regional Planning,
 November 1937
Scope and Contents
Notes
Box 1
"Much Ado About Something - Housing," reprint from The American City
 December 1937
Scope and Contents
3 pp.
Box 1
"Tennessee Valley Low-Cost Housing," for American Architecture
 February 1938
Scope and Contents
4 pp. typescript
Box 1
"T.V.A. Low Cost Housing," rejected by American City,
 February 1938
Scope and Contents
11 pp. typescript
Box 1
"T.V.A. Housing Development at Pickwick Dam"
 March 1938
Scope and Contents
19 pp. typescript
Box 1
"What Is This Planning Business," The Chattanooga News
 July 26, 1938
Box 1
Press Release - Speech at Banquet Inaugurating Radio Station WNRA, Sheffield, Ala. 8 pp. typescript,
 November 18, 1938
Box 1
"Regional Planning in Practice as Illustrated by T.V.A.," Extrait Des Comptes Rendus Du Congres International De Geographie
 1938
Scope and Contents
7 pp.
Box 1
"Regional Planning," chapter in Planning for America by George Galloway, (H. Holt and Co. Publishers, New York),
 January 21, 1941
Box 2
Article for Architectural Forum, Postwar Pattern Series, notes
 August 1941
Box 2
Above article condense for Insured Mortgage Portfolio, "The Problem of Urban Redevelopment"
 September 1941
Scope and Contents
7 pp., notes
Box 2
"Administration of Priorities," United States Investor
 May 16, 1942
Scope and Contents
3 pp.
Box 2
"Planning for Adjustment to Changing Conditions," The American City
 May 1944
Scope and Contents
2 pp. with notes
Box 2
Notes on FHA Financing
 January 2, 1945
Scope and Contents
1 pp. typescript
Box 2
"Old Houses in Urban Communities," for Better Homes and Gardens, Harper's Magazine, Architectural Forum
 August 9, 1945
Scope and Contents
5 pp. typescript
Box 2
"Housing," a paragraph, House and Garden
 February 1947
Books
Box 2
Greer, Guy, ed. The Problem of the Cities and Towns. Conference on urbanism. Harvard University, (Earl Draper was a participant.)
 March 5-6, 1942
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)