Calumet Regional Archives

Inventory

3.75 Linear Feet
June 1989
Revised February 2002

Introduction

The Kay Franklin - Norma Schaeffer Papers were deposited in the Calumet Regional Archives on October 11, 1984, November 27, 1984, and June 6, 1989.

All rights in the collection are held by Kay Franklin and / or the estate of Norma Schaeffer. There are no restrictions on access to the collection.

Linear feet of shelf space: 3.75 linear feet
Number of containers: 5 boxes
Calumet Regional Archives Collection 178
Arranged and Described by: Stephen McShane
Date: June 1989

Scope and Content

The Kay Franklin - Norma Schaeffer Papers describe the history of the movement to preserve the Indiana Dunes from 1916 to 1984. The major portion of the collection contains drafts of Franklin's and Schaeffer's book, Duel for the Dunes: Land Use Conflict on the Shores of Lake Michigan (Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983). This work served as the first authoritative history of environmentalism in the Indiana Dunes region of northwest Indiana. The series of drafts illustrates the many changes applied to the manuscript as the authors sought to define and refine their discussion of this very complex subject.

A small series of correspondence (1976-1985) complements the drafts and offers insight into the authors' struggle to publish their work. In addition, letters from several key players in the Dunes saga provide helpful information on the various perspectives occurring during the preservation movement period.

Of particular interest is a series of audio tapes of interviewees conducted by the authors during research for Duel for the Dunes. Interviewees include Mrs. Paul Douglas, Charles Halleck, Herbert Read, Kenneth Gray, Matthew Welsh, John Van Ness, and others involved in the park-port-industry clash of the 1950s and 1960s. The tapes will be stored in the Archives' sound recordings collection.

The authors' research / subject files series furnishes valuable materials about persons, events, and developments in the Dunes, including Charles Halleck, Bethlehem Steel's Burns Harbor Plant, the Port of Indiana, and the first hearings to establish a national park (1916). Finally, several files from the Association of Beverly Shores Residents in the mid-1970s describe efforts to expand the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and inclusion of the Beverly Shores "island".

Researchers should note that historical information about Kay Franklin and Norma Schaeffer is located in Box 1, File Folder 1. Along with other environmental collections held by the Calumet Regional Archives (see Archives' list of collections), the Franklin-Schaeffer Papers provide significant documentation of the environmental movement heritage of the Calumet Region.

Subject Tracings

• Association of Beverly Shores Residents
• Beverly Shores, Indiana
• Bethlehem Steel Corporation
• Erosion
• Environment
• Indiana Dunes
• Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
• Indiana Dunes State Park
• Industry
• Marquette Park
• Port of Indiana
• Recreation
• South Shore Railroad