Delegates from Florida surrounding Secretary of the Interior J.A. Krug as he files executive order creating Everglades National Park

Title

• Delegates from Florida surrounding Secretary of the Interior J.A. Krug as he files executive order creating Everglades National Park

Image Number

• RC05506

Year

• 1947

Date Note

• Photographed in June 1947.

Series Title

• General: Reference collection

General Note

• Standing (L-R): U.S. Senator Spessard L. Holland, unidentified aide to Secretary Krug, U.S. Senator Claude Pepper, Congressman Dwight Rogers, Florida Governor Millard Caldwell, Congressman George Smathers.
• Accompanying note: "Delivery of 2,000,000 dollar check & filing of executive order creating Everglades National Park."

Physical Description

• 1 photoprint - b&w - 8 x 10 in.

Subject Term

• Statesmen--United States
• Legislators--United States
• Governors--Florida
• Cabinet officers--United States
• Men
• National parks and reserves--Government policy
• Public officers
• Delegated legislation
• Executive orders
• National parks and reserves--Law and legislation

Geographic Term

• Washington (D.C.)

Personal Subject

• Smathers, George A. (George Armistead), 1913-2007
• Caldwell, Millard Fillmore, 1897-1984.
• Rogers, Dwight Laing, 1886-1954.
• Pepper, Claude, 1900-1989.
• Holland, Spessard L. (Spessard Lindsey), 1892-1971.
• Krug, Julius A. (Julius Albert), 1907-1970.

Subject Corporate

• Florida. Governor (1945-1949 : Caldwell)
• United States. Congress. House.
• United States. Congress. Senate.
• United States. Department of the Interior

Shelf Number

• Shelf number: G05894.

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