Civilian Conservation Corps snapshots from Remer, Minnesota and Hawthorne, Nevada [graphic]. ca. 1935-1939.

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Civilian Conservation Corps snapshots from Remer, Minnesota and Hawthorne, Nevada [graphic]. ca. 1935-1939.

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Includes views of young men in camps and at work on trails or roads, chiefly in the Nevada desert. They pose with jackhammers and dynamite, with a mule, and stirring a tub on a stove. Includes views of a dam (Hoover?), a view of the sign at the Inyo County, Calif. line, and an exterior of what appears to be Scotty's Castle in Death Valley. Also present are five family snapshots.

28 photographic prints (on 2 album leaves) : b&w ; leaves 29 x 36 cm.

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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...