Civilian Conservation Corps in Massachusetts Photograph Collection 1930s

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Civilian Conservation Corps in Massachusetts Photograph Collection 1930s

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The C.C.C. was a relief program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to assist unemployed men through the worst years of the Great Depression. In Massachusetts, the C.C.C. was largely engaged in tree planting, fire fighting, insect control, and tree and plant disease control. Contains photographs arranged alphabetically by forest name that depict road building, tree planting, and other developments in the state forests. Includes some images of workers.

1 box; (0.5 linear ft.)

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Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)

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The Emergency Conservation Work (March 31, 1933 - Jan. 1, 1942; renamed, Civilian Conservation Corps in 1937) was just one of the many relief programs established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to aid in the effort to curb rising unemployment and to lift the "spiritual" morale of the country. Rather than create an autonomous governing agency, Roosevelt used the existing departments of War, Agriculture, Interior, and Labor and established an Advisory Council, consisting of repres...

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