Guide to the Civilian Conservation Corps Collection
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Guide to the Civilian Conservation Corps Collection NMAH.AC.0930 Franklin A. Robinson, Jr. and Emily Woessner 2017 Archives Center, National Museum of American History P.O. Box 37012 Suite 1100, MRC 601 Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 [email protected] http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives Table of Contents Collection Overview ........................................................................................................ 1 Administrative Information .............................................................................................. 1 Arrangement..................................................................................................................... 3 Scope and Contents........................................................................................................ 2 Biographical / Historical.................................................................................................... 2 Names and Subjects ...................................................................................................... 3 Container Listing ............................................................................................................. 5 Series 1: Scrapbooks, 1853-2003, undated............................................................. 5 Series 2: State Material, 1922-2008, undated....................................................... 21 Series 3: Publications, 1924-2006, undated.......................................................... 51 Series 4: C.E. Ward, 3rd Corps, 1933-1941, undated......................................... 104 Series 5: Photographs, 1929-2008, undated....................................................... 113 Series 6: General Ephemera, 1915-2006, undated............................................. 164 Series 7: Bidwell, Timothy, Addendum, 1933-1987, undated.............................. 182 Series 8: Bires, Andrew G., Addendum, 1934-1985, undated............................. 186 Subseries : Molin, Arthur P., Addendum, 1933-1983, undated............................ 186 Series 9: Audiovisual Materials, 1933-2009, undated.......................................... 187 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Collection NMAH.AC.0930 Collection Overview Repository: Archives Center, National Museum of American History Title: Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Collection Identifier: NMAH.AC.0930 Date: 1853-2009, undated (bulk 1933-1942) Creator: National Association of Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Ward, C.E. Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) Bidwell, Timothy Bires, Andrew, G. Extent: 155 Cubic feet (331 boxes, 57 map folders) Language: English . Summary: The Archival collections of the National Association of Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni (NACCCA) donated in 2006. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), created as part of the New Deal legislation initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, was a public work relief program for unemployed men designed to reduce high unemployment during the Great Depression. The CCC carried out a broad natural resource conservation program on national, state, and municipal lands from 1933 to 1942. This collection contains papers, photographs, and ephemera collected and created by alumni of the CCC and donated to the NACCCA archives. Administrative Information Acquisition Information Collection donated by National Association of Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni in 2006. Provenance The National Association of Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni, formed in 1977, was the repository for the initial donation of these papers, photographs, and artifacts donated from CCC alumni. Related Materials Materials at Other Organizations National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 35, Civilian Conservation Corps Processing Information Collection processed by Franklin A. Robinson, Jr. archives specialist, assisted by Kendra Ciccone, Ashley Davies, Helena Iles, Emily Woessner, interns, and Sarah Allen, volunteer; Page 1 of 191 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Collection NMAH.AC.0930 supervised by Vanessa Broussard Simmons, archivist and Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., archives specialist, 2010-2017. Preferred Citation Civilian Conservation Corps Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History Restrictions This collection is open for research use. Researchers must handle unprotected photographs with cotton gloves. Researchers may use reference copies of audio-visual materials. When no reference copy exists, the Archives Center staff will produce reference copies on an "as needed" basis and as resources allow. Viewing film portions of the collection requires special appointment, please inquire; listening to LP recordings is only possible by special arrangement. Gloves must be worn when handling unprotected photographs and negatives. Special arrangements required to view materials in cold storage. Using cold room materials requires a three hour waiting period. Contact the Archives Center at 202-633-3270. Conditions Governing Use Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions. Accruals Addenda were donated by: Diane De Libero in 2011, Robert Kelley and Timothy Bidwell in 2013, Andrew G. Bires in 2017, National Park Service in 2018, South Carolina Cotton Museum in 2019, Angela Thor in 2021. Biographical / Historical The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a New Deal era program, created in 1933 to reduce unemployment, a direct result of the Great Depression. The CCC provided national conservation work across the United States for young, unmarried men. Veterans could be enrolled in the CCC after verification of their service by the Veteran's Administration. Veterans were exempt from the age and marriage restriction. Projects included planting trees, bulding flood barriers, combatting forest fires, maintaining forest roads and trails, and building recreational facilities in the National Park system and a host of other projects. There were separate CCC programs for Native Americans of recognized tribes and African Americans. In 1942, with the waning of the Great Depression and America's entry into World War II in December 1941, resources devoted to the CCC (men and materials) were diverted to the war effort. Congress ceased funding for the CCC and liquidation of the CCC was included in the Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Act (56 Stat. 569) on July 2, 1942, and for the most part completed by June 30, 1943. Appropriations for the liquidation of the CCC continued through April 20, 1948. Scope and Contents This material was acquired by the National Association of Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni (NACCCA)from CCC alumni and originally housed in the NACCCA archives in St. Louis, Missouri. Photographic materials, including loose photos, slides, snapshots, group photos, panoramic photos, and albums and binders of photographs; printed materials, including newspapers published by individual companies, camps and districts, and the national CCC newspaper, Happy Days; materials documenting each camp, including camp histories, personal memoirs, blueprints of camps and projects worked on; the Page 2 of 191 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Collection NMAH.AC.0930 papers of C.E. Ward, Educational Director of the CCC's 3rd Corps, which document the planning and implementation of educational activities in that region; miscellaneous materials, including camp rosters, cartoons, menus, poems, pamphlets, booklets, magazines, manuals, enrollee discharge papers, work logs, and sheet music; and other more recent materials such as research papers, books on the CCC, selected audiotape and video interviews with some of the alumni; and other miscellaneous items. The collection is arranged into nine series. Arrangement The collection is divided into nine series. Series 1: Scrapbooks, 1853-2003, undated Series 2: State Material, 1922-2008, undated Series 3: Publications, 1924-2006, undated Series 4: C.E. Ward, 3rd Corps, 1933-2001, undated Series 5: Photographs, 1929-2008, undated Series 6: General Ephemera, 1915-2006, undated Series 7: Bidwell Addendum, 1933-1987, undated Series 8: Bires Addendum, 1934-1985, undated Series 9: Audiovisual Materials, 1933-2009, undated Names and Subject Terms This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Smithsonian Institution under the following terms: Subjects: Conservation of natural resources -- 1930-1950 Depressions -- 1929 -- United States National parks and reserves New Deal, 1933-1939 State parks Types of Materials: Audiovisual materials Blueprints -- 20th century Books Cartoons (humorous images) Logs (records) Magazines (periodicals) -- 20th century Manuals Memoirs Menus Newsletters Newspapers Pamphlets Panoramas Photographs -- 20th century Poems Page 3 of 191 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Collection NMAH.AC.0930 Rosters Sheet music -- 20th century Page 4 of 191 Series 1: Scrapbooks Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Collection NMAH.AC.0930 Container Listing Series 1: Scrapbooks, 1853-2003, undated Scope and Series 1 contains scrapbooks created by individuals or camps. They are arranged Contents: alphabetically by state. Original numbering assigned by the NACCCA appears in parenthesis. Scrapbooks may include paper ephemera, photographs, artwork, and a variety of collected material. Box 7 Alabama (P-AL-01), 1919-2004, undated Box 8 Alaska (P-AK-01), 1909-2004, undated Box 9 Arizona