At a small fishing lake near North Platte, Nebraska.
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Looking downstream. on the Iowa shore, south of the Quad Cities.
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I think this is a truss bridge. Engineers?
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Outbuildings at the 'museum village' at West Branch, Iowa. National Historic Site commemorating the birthplace of President Herbert Hoover. A delightful place to visit; managed by the National Park Service. The connected presidential library is overseen by the National Archives and Records Administration.
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of President Herbert Hoover, West Branch, Iowa, now the centerpiece/icon of the Hoover Presidential Library, managed by the National Park Service as an historic site.
Located just off I-80, West Branch is a wonderful place to stop when driving cross-country. Beautiful landscape and adjacent small town. The NPS does a fine job of interpreting the place, the era, the president and his very accomplished wife, Lou Henry. She's one of my favorite First Ladies.
Wikipedia:
"In the United States, the presidential library system is a nationwide network of 13 libraries administered by the Office of Presidential Libraries, which is part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). These are repositories for preserving and making available the papers, records, collections and other historical materials of every President of the United States since Herbert Hoover (31st President, 1929-1933).
Although not officially sanctioned and maintained by the NARA, libraries have been organized for several presidents who preceded the official start of the Presidential Library Office (i.e., those before President Hoover)."
I thought the NARA system of managing presidential papers had begun with Hoover, but apparently it was FDR whose papers first went to the National Archives. The way the above description is written still makes it unclear, to me, where the Hoover collection falls in terms of NARA's presidential papers collections.
OK. I've now read the brochure I picked up at the Hoover Library. It says clearly that "NARA runs the library and museum." So, my understanding is that while the program of Presidential Libraries within NARA began with F.D. Roosevelt, it reached back just a bit and took over the Hoover Collection. I don't believe any earlier presidential papers are collected into this NARA program.
I'm sure no one but me cares about understanding this system, but in case you want more, here is a link to the full story:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_library#Presidential_l...
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