Civilian conservation corps (CCC) work project records 1933-1950 1933-1942.

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Civilian conservation corps (CCC) work project records 1933-1950 1933-1942.

Series documents work projects conducted by the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) for the Department of Forestry. Records include inventories of buildings purchased, telephone lines erected; construction of truck trails, bridges, and horse trails, and look-out towers; blueprints for look-out towers; photographs; monthly project progress reports; maps; and correspondence. Subjects include CCC, work projects, road construction, fire-fighting, creation of the Emergency Conservation Work (ECW) program in Oregon, and CCC work camps.

Blueprints.

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Oregon. Dept. of Forestry.

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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...