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Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.) Camps. Collection, 1933, 1934

 Collection
Identifier: UAAMC-COLL-0460

Scope and Contents

Judith Leger donated the photographs from 1933; her father was a member of the group (is pictured in the August 1933 photograph). Dee Tauzin donated the photograph from 1934; her uncle, Alcee Jefferson Pothier, Jr., was a member and is pictured.

Photograph 1 is hanging on the wall in the Jefferson Caffery Reading Room. Photograph 2 can be found in Map Case 13-11. Photograph 3 has been placed with the oversized frames collections.

Dates

  • 1933, 1934

Creator

Biographical / Historical

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men. The CCC was a major part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal that provided unskilled manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state, and local governments. The CCC was designed to provide jobs for young men to relieve families who had difficulty finding jobs during the Great Depression in the United States.

This group planted nearly 3 billion trees to help reforest America, constructed trails, lodges, and related facilities in more than 800 parks nationwide, upgraded most state parks, updated forest fire fighting methods, and built a network of service buildings and public roadways in remote areas.

Extent

3 Photographic Prints (3 oversize photographs, two framed)

Language of Materials

English

Title
Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.) Camps Collection
Status
Completed
Author
Zack Stein
Date
12/04/2018
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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Script of description
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Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection Repository

Contact:
Edith Garland Dupré Library
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
400 East St. Mary Blvd.
Lafayette LA 70503 United States
337-482-6031