Numerical photograph set, 1928-1933.

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Numerical photograph set, 1928-1933.

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Black and white snapshot photographs (and negatives) of such items and events as farms and farming equipment; flowers and plants; animals and animal damage; archaeology; trees; birds; plant diseases; boats and related buildings and equipment; Boy Scouts; bridges and dams; cabins and summer homes; camping; Civil Works Administration and emergency conservation work; lumber camps and related buildings and equipment; construction work; dog sleds; dumps; forestry and firefighting equipment; excelsior factory; fish; forest rangers; fox farm; game; golf; guns and hunting; deforestation; Indians; insects; lightning; lookout towers and ranger stations; maps; maple syrup; monuments; pageants; peat fires and industry; picnics; tree planting; portages; railroads; roads and road building; roadside stands; signs; slash; resorts; tents; timber marking; toboggans; trapping; weather instruments; winter; forest fires, including those at Cloquet, Hinckley, and Moose Lake; and geographic features, including hills, bogs, burned land, caves, ditches, drainage, lakes, rivers, erosion, water falls, fire and wind breaks, and flowage. There are also photographs of Grand Marais, Hibbing, Portage, the Mississippi River headwaters, and Interstate, Itasca, Jay Cooke, and Whitewater state parks.

5.0 cu. ft. (5 boxes).

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6955532

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Minnesota. Dept. of Conservation.

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United States. Federal Civil Works Administration

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The Civil Works Administration was established by EO 6420-B, November 9, 1933, under authority of the National Industrial Recovery Act (48 Stat. 200), June 16, 1933, to provide relief work for unemployed persons through public work projects. Functioned simultaneously, and to some extent with the same personnel, with Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). Liquidated March 1934, and functions and records transferred to the Emergency Relief Program of FERA. From the description...

Minnesota Emergency Relief Administration

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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...