Central subject files : Operation (0) files, 1911-1962.

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Central subject files : Operation (0) files, 1911-1962.

Subject files consisting of correspondence, memos, reports, maps and plats, field books and diaries, circulars, brochures, and other miscellaneous materials relating to fire cooperation with district and township officials, other state departments, lumber companies, and railroads; fire protection plans and weather reports; Civilian Conservation Corps and Emergency Conservation Work leases and camps; Works Progress Administration surveys; Red Lake area fires and others by district; ranger ten-year plans; equipment literature and inventories; state forest reports; instructions to forestry personnel; and diaries of daily work performed at Itasca Park, originating from or received by the state forester, commissioner, or director of forestry (title change) or other members of the forestry division office.

28.25 cu. ft. (28 boxes and 4 packages).

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SNAC Resource ID: 6748892

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Minnesota. Dept. of Conservation.

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Minnesota. Division of Forestry

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The Pine Island Civilian Conservation Corp camp was established on June 21, 1933 and operated until August 1934. The site sat idle until January 1935, when it became a transient camp under the Work Projects Administration (WPA) and State Emergency Relief Administration. On May 15, 1936, it was placed under the United States Department of Agriculture's Resettlement Administration, as Project LD-MN4, the Northern Minnesota Pine Island Settler Relocation Project. The purpose of the project was to p...

Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)

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The Civilian Conservation Corps, a federal agency, was created as part of the New Deal in 1935. From the description of Civilian Conservation Corps photograph collection [graphic]. 1936. (Santa Fe Public Library). WorldCat record id: 38548415 On March 31, 1933, congress passed the Emergency Conservation Work Act, creating the Civilian Conservation Corps. On April 5, the president appointed Robert Fechner of Tennessee as Director of Emergency Conservation Work. Fechner, a vic...

Minnesota Works Progress Administration

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The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was established in July, 1935, as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a New Deal agency responsible for operating a wide variety of "socially useful" work-relief programs. The WPA was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939 and was transferred, along with several other relief agencies, to the newly created Federal Works Agency. After the United States entered World War II, the FWP was renamed the Writers' Unit of the WPA's War...

Itasca State Park.

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