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Photograph of Civilian Conservation Corps Enrollee Planting a Tree
ARC Identifier 594253
D. K. Major letter to Robert Fechner regarding funding for the Civilian Conservation Corps., 04/05/1933
ARC Identifier 194778
(handwritten notes at top are FDR’s)
Civilian Conservation Corps at an experimental farm in Beltsville, Maryland, ca. 1933
ARC Identifier 195830
Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees on the fire line in a big forest fire in the west., ca. 1933
ARC Identifier 195838
Civilian Conservation Corps – Washington
ARC Identifier 7004721
Civilian Conservation Corps in California, March Field District, cooks, ca. 1933
ARC Identifier 197115
Civilian Conservation Corps – Camps – California
ARC Identifier 7004794
President Franklin Roosevelt visited with CCC enrollees near Camp Roosevelt on August 12, 1933, at Big Meadows, Skyland Drive, Virginia. (35-GE-3A-5)
Civilian Conservation Corps, Third Corps Area: Yorktown, Virginia, Co. 1351- vocational projects for “colored veterans”, ca. 1933
ARC Identifier 197154
Supervisor Burgess and Ranger Cooke Trying Out the Civilian Conservation Corps Constructed Hobby Horse, Douglas Fir Forest Camp, Mt. Baker National Forest, 1936:
ARC Identifier 5585735
An enduring legacy of the New Deal, FDR established the Civilian Conservation Corps with an executive order signed April 5, 1933.
In the midst of the Great Depression, the program put thousands of unemployed young men to work, planting trees, building roads, improving State and National Parks, even combating forest fires and other natural disasters.
Never a permanent agency, the scale of the CCC was reduced as the economy improved, and it was disbanded in 1942 as the country geared up for World War II.
