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2 scrap books by C. E. Chet Corry

Box contains:
12 x 14.5 x 1.5 inch brown leather scrapbook with screwed binding. Newspaper clippings from the 1950s - 1970s about improvements to Lithia Park in Ashland with photographs of features and landscaping being built in the park; article in 1967 about the Lincoln head from the statue in the park; biographical info about Chester Corry who was helped design many of the features in the park; loose papers in the back of the album have maps and layout of a self guiding nature trail of Lithia Park

Dark brown leather covered "Photograph" album with what appears to be a combination of two different albums tied together - large photographs pasted on to black pages. Subject of the photos are of various gardens which Chester Corry had something to do with in his landscaping career. Lithia Park photos of local interest but also photos of landscape drawings of unknown locations, large tulip fields, Root Park within Lithia Park and more, WPA projects in Lithia park, petting zoo, Band Shell

Location
M22 C 4
Source Reference
Accession Number
2022.93