U.S. Forest Service Smokey Bear collection, 1902-1994

U.S. Forest Service Smokey Bear collection, 1902-1994 | United States Forest Service Smokey Bear collection | Smokey bear collection

1902-1994

The U.S. Forest Service Smokey Bear Collection consists various materials related to Smokey Bear, the U.S. Forest Service symbol of fire prevention. Materials include audiovisuals, posters, slides, photographs, cartoons, original artwork, and a wide variety of promotional products, artifacts, and ephemera, some of which are from around the world.

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Mots clés AGROVOC

advertising citizen participation forest fires

Informations bibliographiques

D'autres materias

Smokey bear; Forest fire prevention; Collectibles; United states; Prevention and control

Langue

anglais

Note

U.S. Forest Service Smokey Bear Collection. Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library.

During World War II, the U.S. Forest Service organized the Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention (CFFP) campaign to address human causes of wildfires and the need to conserve wood resources for the war effort. In 1944, the campaign introduced the character Smokey Bear to convey its message of fire prevention and to encourage citizens to participate. In the spring of 1950, an American black bear cub, rescued from a forest fire in New Mexico, became the living representation of Smokey Bear. The Smokey Bear fire prevention campaign is one of the longest-running public service advertising campaigns in the U.S. and has made the Smokey Bear character recognizable to people around the world.

In November 2004, a retired Forest Service employee donated around 22 pieces of memorabilia from the Smokey Sports Collection. One of the Smokey Bear campaigns collaborated with collegiate, minor league, and professional athletes to promote fire prevention awareness. Various memorabilia, such as playing cards, posters, baseball gloves and balls, hockey pucks, batting helmets, activity books, wallets, pennants, wrist bands, water bottles, and rally rags, were given away to children at sporting events. In December 2004, Lew Southard, Branch Chief of Fire Prevention in the Forest Service, donated a 60th Anniversary Smokey Bear commemorative doll.

Type

Mixed Material; Monographic

Auteur institutionnelle

United States. Forest Service.

Sur AGRIS depuis: 2024-02-27

Date de modification: 2025-04-22

Format: MODS

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Liens

https://archivesspace.nal.usda.gov/repositories/4/resources/626