The craft lodges in Cabin Camp 1, Prince William Forest Park, Virginia.’ NPS Photo ‘Four of the five cabin camps in Prince William Forest Park are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Each camp is composed of group of wood, stone, and brick structures constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration workers of the Great Depression. The camps were built as summer camps that the government hoped would instill the poor children of Washington, DC with the 'character and health-building' benefits of the great outdoors. ... Cabin Camp 1 was the first camp completed by the CCC. It sleeps 151 visitors. Its dining hall and craft lodges are some of the best examples of rustic architecture in the park. Stone foundations and fireplaces and whole log supports showcase the beautiful native materials used by the CCC in construction.’ https://www.nps.gov/prwi/planyourvisit/group-cabin-camping.htm 16.3.21

‘The craft lodges in Cabin Camp 1, #PrinceWilliamForest Park, Virginia.’
👉ALT
NPS Photo
#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #CivilianConservationCorps #CCC

http://kswildlife.org/ww/remembering-the-civilian-conservation-corps-on-labor-day/

‘The CCC built this low-water bridge across Rock Creek in the late 30s. #BoylePark, #PulaskiCounty, Little Rock, Arkansas.’ Photo by Eric Hunt.
#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #CivilianConservationCorps #CCC

https://www.nps.gov/articles/the-civilian-conservation-corps-at-cedar-breaks.htm?utm_source=article&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=experience_more&utm

‘CCC Built Overlook Building at Brian Head Peak. #CedarBreaksNationalMonument, #ZionNationalPark.’ NPS Photo.
#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #CivilianConservationCorps #CCC

National Park Service, Wind Cave National Park. https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/trailblazing/the-new-deal

#OTD - April 7 - in 1933
#CCCBoys enrolled
PART 9
🧵👇
#CCC Projects - a few results
‘Civilian Conservation Corps workers complete construction of a new Visitor Center at South Dakota’s #WindCaveNationalPark. Ca. 1936’
👉ALT
#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #CivilianConservationCorps

https://slideplayer.com/slide/9691726/

‘CCC crew at #CuyamacaRancho hewing slabs of sugar pine for picnic table tops. 1934.’
#CivilianConservationCorps #CCC #landscaping #recreation #recreationfacilities

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/civilian-conservation-corps-at-tumacacori.htm?utm_source=article&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=experience_more&utm_content=large

‘#BandelierNationalMonument, #ChiricahuaNationalMonument, #SaguaroNationalPark.
The #CivilianConservationCorps (#CCC) is responsible for many national park projects of the 1930s, including #Tumacácori's courtyard garden. Young men standing in truck inside garden walls.’

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gerald_W._Williams_Collection#/media/File:A_foreman_is_teaching_CCC_boys_how_to_fell_an_insect_infested_tree_in_the_Lassen_National_Forest,_California._(3226969208).jpg

‘A foreman is teaching CCC boys how to fell an insect infested tree in the #LassenNationalForest, California.’
#CivilianConservationCorps #CCC #forestfires #firefighting #forestry

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gerald_W._Williams_Collection#/media/

‘CCC crew answering fire call, Camp Snider, #OlympicNationalForest, Washington.’
#CivilianConservationCorps #CCC #forestfires #firefighting #forestry

USFS photo #391960. Original Collection: Gerald W. Williams Collection. Item Number: WilliamsG:CCC tree felling

‘Felling snags on fire line around the Coquille CCC camp, #SiskiyouNationalForest.’
#CivilianConservationCorps #CCC #forestfires #firefighting #forestry

‘Fire Fighting. Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees on the fire line in a big forest fire in the west. During the first seven years of its operation, April 1933-1940, the CCC spent more than 5 1/2 million man-days in fighting forest fires. This is an arduous job calling for coordinated effort, obedience, and courage. An additional 5 million man-days was spent in fire prevention and pre-suppression work.’ 1933. http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/index.php?p=digitallibrary/thumbnails&subjectid=6

#OTD - April 7 - in 1933
#CCCBoys
PART 7
🧵👇
#CCC Projects - 7 general categories:
6. Forest protection: fire prevention, fire pre-suppression, firefighting, insect and disease control
👉ALT
#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #CivilianConservationCorps #forestfires

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/index.php?p=digitallibrary/thumbnails&subjectid=6

‘CCC enrollee planting tree--two billion trees have been planted on [illegible] + farm lands by CCC boys during April 1933-1940.’ 1940.
#blackandwhitephotography #CivilianConservationCorps #CCC #forestry #reforestation

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/index.php?p=digitallibrary/thumbnails&subjectid=6

‘No. 278469 CCC boys surveying thinning area, Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota. 1933.’
#blackandwhitephotography #CivilianConservationCorps #CCC #forestry #reforestation

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/index.php?p=digitallibrary/thumbnails&subjectid=6

‘#CCC Cutting out dead wood, Sequoia National Park. Camp Wolverton, California.’
Civilian Conservation Corps in California, Camp Wolverton, #SequoiaNationalPark. June 27, 1933.
#blackandwhitephotography #CivilianConservationCorps #forestry #reforestation

Here men from the Emergency Conservation Works Carbon River Camp clear debris from a channel in Mount Rainier National Park. Note the burning slash and the use of hand tools.’ (ca. 1934-35) http://www.archives.gov/seattle/exhibit/picturing-the-century/great-depression.html

#OTD - April 7 - in 1933
#CCCBoys
PART 5
🧵👇
#CCC Projects - 7 general categories:
4. Flood control: irrigation, drainage, dams, ditching, channel work, riprapping
👉ALT
#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #blackandwhitephotography #CivilianConservationCorps #CCC #floodcontrol

‘CCC--Third Corps Area (PA, MD, VA, DC), Sodding, Co. 5445, Camp A-4, Beltsville, MD. Civilian Conservation Corps, Third Corps Area: Beltsville, Maryland, Co. 5445 - sodding. 1933.’ http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/index.php?p=digitallibrary/thumbnails&subjectid=6

#OTD - April 7 - in 1933
#CCCBoys
PART 4
🧵👇
#CCC Projects - 7 general categories:
3. Erosion control: check dams, terracing, and vegetable covering
👉ALT
#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #blackandwhitephotography #CivilianConservationCorps #CCC #erosion

'CCC activities--Roadside clearing, Boise National Forest, Idaho.' Civilian Conservation Corps in Idaho, Boise National Forest. 1933. image from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gerald_W._Williams_Collection#/media/

#OTD - April 7 - in 1933
#CCCBoys
PART 3
🧵👇
#CCC Projects - 7 general categories:
2. Transportation: Truck trails, minor roads, foot trails and airport landing fields
👉ALT
#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #blackandwhitephotography #CivilianConservationCorps #CCC

‘CCC crew erecting telephone line, Fremont National Forest, Oregon.’ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gerald_W._Williams_Collection#/media/

#OTD - April 7 - in 1933
#CCCBoys enrolled PART 2
🧵👇
#CCC Projects - 7 general categories:
1. Structural improvements: bridges, fire lookout towers, telephone lines, and service buildings
👉ALT
#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #blackandwhitephotography #CivilianConservationCorps

Ca. 1940. John Garth. image from https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/a342lf/achievements_of_the_civilian_conservation_corps/ 22.3.21

By 1942 more than 2.5 million men were employed in more than 4,500 camps across the 48 states and the territories.
#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #blackandwhitephotography #CivilianConservationCorps #CCC
Projects largely fell under 7 general categories: #CCCBoys PARTS 2-9

FDR commented at top that the $1.92/day cost per man was “absurdly high - It must be greatly reduced”.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library and Museum
image from www.archives.gov/publications...
#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #CivilianConservationCorps #CCC #FDR #USArmy #RobertFechner

The Mountain Theatre a crown jewel of the Civilian Conservation Corps #mountaintheatre #mttamalpais #mttamalpaisstatepark #civilianconservationcorps #thenewdeal

The #CivilianConservationCorps was formed on #ThisDayInHistory in 1933 and ran until 1942. Young men were hired to build infrastructure on rural public lands, such as in #NationalParks, and had to send most of the money earned home to families suffering in the #GreatDepression.

#OTD in 1936
‘Exhibit display. Craft Work from #GovernorsIsland #CCC Camp under direction of #FederalArtProject W.P.A. Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection. #CivilianConservationCorps Camps Training School, circa 1936-circa 1942. 2 March 1936.’
#TheNewDeal #WPA

Photo from *Indians At Work*, U.S. Office of Indian Affairs, February 1939 issue
👇 cover of August 1, 1936 issue
#CCC #CivilianConservationCorps #NativeAmericans #OfficeofIndianAffairs

The Mountain Theatre at Mount Tamalpais State Park is one of the crown jewels of Civilian Conservation Corps #mountaintheatre #mttam #mttamalpaisstatepark #civilianconservationcorps #castateparks

#CivilianConservationCorps

A walk around #HawaiiVolcanoesNP reveals historic roads, landmarks, trails, buildings. Much of this infrastructure was built nearly a century ago by the young men of the #CivilianConservationCorps (CCC) between 1934 & 1942.

StoryMap, CCC: A Community Builds a Park:
www.nps.gov/.../civilian...

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC https://www.loc.gov/item/2017713885/

In #NOVEMBER 1935
‘CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) boys at work, #PrinceGeorgesCounty, Maryland’
Resettlement Administration photographer Carl Mydans (1907-2004). Nov. 1935.
#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #CCC #CivilianConservationCorps #CarlMydans #ResettlementAdministration

The CCC-built Shelter Pavilion at Bear Brook State Park #bearbrookstatepark ##ccc #civilianconservationcorps #newdeal #newengland #newhampshire #nhstateparks #americasstateparks

TVA-related Civilian Conservation Corps Camps. 17 November 1933.
@livingnewdeal.bsky.social
#blackandwhitephotography #LewisHine #CivilianConservationCorps #CCC #conservation #TennesseeValleyAuthority #TVA

‘Lunchtime at CCC Camp, TVA #22, located on the hill above Fall Creek, south of the Clinch River, near Esco, Tennessee.’
17 November 1933
#blackandwhitephotography #LewisHine #CivilianConservationCorps #CCC #conservation #TennesseeValleyAuthority #TVA