Civilian Conservation Corps - Matanuska Valley Photographs, ca. 1935-1941.

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Civilian Conservation Corps - Matanuska Valley Photographs, ca. 1935-1941.

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The Civilian Conservation Corps - Matanuska Valley Photographs consist of 141 images from a photograph album, dating from 1935 through 1941. The photographs were taken in Alaska, Seattle, San Francisco and Reno. Of particular interest are the photographs taken in Alaska, the bulk of which relate to construction activities, probably by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the Matanuska Valley in preparation for the arrival of the colonists.

.25 cubic feet.

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7318624

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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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...

Matanuska Valley Colony (Alaska)

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The organization was established in 1935 under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration's program of organizing rural rehabilitation organizations in the United States. It was the administrative agency over the Matanuska Valley Colony in Palmer and was responsible for providing land and houses for the colonists, and for governing the colony. From the description of Photograph album, 1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42926795 ...