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PARKS 



Park and Cemetery and Landscape Gardening. Pub- 

 lished monthly by the Allied Arts Publishing Company, 

 114 South Carroll Street, Madison, Wisconsin. Began 

 publication, 1891. In the pages of this magazine may 

 be found many references to the park movement in 

 America. It was for a time the official organ of the 

 American Association of Park Superintendents. 



The American City. Published monthly by the Civic 

 Press, 443 Fourth Avenue, New York City. A magazine 



devoted to all phases of city life and affairs. Began 

 publication 1910, and is now in its thirty-sixth volume. 

 A great deal of valuable information about parks may 

 be found in its columns. Illustrations, plans. 



The Playground. A monthly magazine devoted to 

 the promotion of play and recreation. Published by 

 the Playground and Recreation Association of America, 

 315 Fourth Avenue, New York City, since April, 1907 

 to present date (1927). Illustrated. 



REPORTS 



Reference is here made to the following classes of informational 

 materials: 



1. Reports of the proceedings of the annual meetings of various 

 national and local associations and other reports of such associations. 



2. Park department reports. 



3. Reports of city park plans by various park planners. 



4. City plan reports containing reports on park plans. 



5. United States Bureau of Census reports on municipal parks, and 

 the reports of the Bureau on financial statistics of cities. 



All these various types of reports taken together constitute by far the 

 largest volume of material on parks that is to be had. So far as known 

 there is not a complete collection of this material in any one place in the 

 United States. The most extensive collections may be found in the reference 

 libraries of the larger cities, notably the municipal reference libraries of 

 New York, Chicago and Boston. 



American Association of Park Superintendents. This 

 organization was the predecessor of the present Ameri- 

 can Institute of Park Executives. The proceedings of 

 the annual meetings were published in pamphlet form 

 from 1899 until about 1917. From 1906 the Association 

 also published bulletins from time to time. These 

 ceased when the Association was reorganized and a 

 regular periodical as an official organ established: The 

 annual proceedings and the bulletins form a valuable 

 and interesting library on various phases of park con- 

 struction, administration and maintenance. They are 

 now out of print and can be found only in the files of 

 the American Institute of Park Executives, some park 

 departments and reference collections in some public 

 libraries. Reports of annual conventions and special 

 articles have appeared since 1917 in Parks and Recrea- 

 tion, the official organ of the American Institute of 

 Park Executives. 



American Civic Association. Many valuable refer- 

 ences to parks and recreation may be found in the 

 reports of the proceedings of the annual meetings of 

 this Association and in special reports issued from time 

 to time. 



American Park and Outdoor Art Association. Addresses 



and proceedings, 1897-1904. So long as this Associa- 

 tion remained in existence the reports of its annual 

 meetings were issued in pamphlet form. These reports 

 contained addresses and papers on parks by leaders in 

 this field of civic planning and development. They are 

 chiefly to be found in reference collections of public 

 libraries. 



National Conference on City Planning. The reports 

 of this Conference, which held its first session in 1909, 

 contain a great deal of valuable information relative to 

 park and boulevard planning as an essential and fun- 

 damental part of general city planning. 



National Conference on Outdoor Recreation. The first 

 session of this Conference, called at the instance of 

 President Coolidge, was held in Washington in 1924. 

 The second session was held in Washington in 1925. 

 The reports of these two sessions, issued as United 

 States Public Documents, cover the entire field of out- 

 door recreation, municipal, state and national, in a 

 general but very illuminating manner. 



Park Plan Reports. The making of such reports be- 

 gan close to the middle of the last century. In the 

 second and third decades of the last half of the last 

 century a considerable number of cities had park plans 



