Collection Guide
This document describes a Manuscript Collection held by the
Special
Collections Department
University of Iowa
Libraries
e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu
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Biographical Note
Born and raised in Mapleton, Iowa, Arthur Hawthorne Carhart (1892 -- 1978), was first published at age eleven. His essay on "The Downey Woodpecker" appeared in the children's corner of the Women's Home Companion. Carhart graduated from Iowa State University in 1916. He received the first degree in landscape architecture and city planning conferred by the university in Ames, Iowa.
He worked for a Chicago firm of landscape architects until enlisting in the Army in 1917. There he served as a bacteriologist and public health officer in the Sanitary Corps at Camp Mead, Maryland. After the war, Carhart moved to Colorado where he joined the U.S. Forest Service as a recreation engineer. In 1923, he became part of McCrary, Culley, and Carhart. It was a landscape architecture and city planning firm that worked out of Denver.
Arthur Carhart had his first book published in 1928. By 1931, he had sold out to his partners and had become a full time freelance writer. For the next eight years he wrote and sold novels, short stories, and articles of all description. He put his writings on hold to take a position as the Colorado coordinator of the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration program. He then became the Regional Information Executive of the Rocky Mountain Region for the U.S. Office of Price Administration. Returning to his writing in 1946, he published The Outdoorsman's Cookbook. Carhart published some twenty-four books and over 4,000 articles during his career. They ranged from Western novels to books on sport and conservation.
Scope and
Contents
The
papers of Arthur H. Carhart date from 1916 to 1965 and measure 4.5 linear
feet. These literary manuscripts are arranged chronologically within an alphabetical
sequence. There are various typescript drafts, proofs, galleys, outlines,
and correspondence for a number of books including The National Forests and Timber
in Your Life. Newspaper clippings and various brochures and pamphlets
are also included. A progress report concerning the Conservation Library
Center in Denver, Colorado, for which Carhart was a consultant, can also
be found.
Acquisition and Processing Information
Guide posted
to Internet:
Arthur H. Carhart
Resume of Training and Experience
Brochures and Pamphlets
Clippings, 1941-- 1961
Fresh Water Fishing. Pencil drawings (made by author) which are
the key to the captions of the eighteen colored plates in the book and a letter
of explanation from author dated April 23, 1954.
Landscape Materials for Iowa. Bound thesis, 1916
The National Forests
Correspondence, 1954 -- 1960First draft. Manuscript with corrections and revisions
Second draft. Typescript with corrections and revisions
Third draft. Typescript with corrections and revisions
Fourth draft. Typescript with corrections and revisions (2 folders)Fifth draft. Typescript with corrections and revisions (2 folders)
Sixth draft. Typescript with corrections and revisions
Seventh draft. Typescript with corrections and revisions
Seventh draft. Carbon typescript
Eighth draft. Typescript with corrections and revisions
Box 2
Eighth draft. Carbon typescript (3 folders)
Miscellaneous (including index, list of illustrations, copyright notice, forward, biographical note, etc.)Title page. Typescript and printed
Plate proofs. Miscellaneous
Author's proofs. Miscellaneous
Page proofs, October 30, 1958
Son of the Forest
Typescript, with corrections and revisions
Typescript , with corrections and revisionsTypescript, with corrections and revisions
Typescript, with corrections and revisions, beginning with chapter 8
Typescript, final version, beginning with chapter 8
Timber in Your Life
Correspondence
Typescript, with corrections and revisions (2 folders)
Miscellaneous pages discarded after the first draft
Index -- three drafts
Typescript, final version
Publisher's typescript, with revisions (2 folders)
Galley proofs
Printed front material
Water or Your Life
Outlines -- three drafts
Typescript, with corrections and revisions (2 folders)Publisher's typescript, with corrections and revisions (2 folders)
Promotional Pamphlet
Conservation Library Center Progress Report, 1965
