Edgar B. Raudebaugh collection, 1933-1939.

United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

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...

Raudebaugh, Edgar B.

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Edgar B. Raudebaugh was a Carpentry foreman on the Coconino National Forest, possibly employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) or the United States Forest Service from 1933 to 1936. From 1936 to 1939, he worked as an Occupational Interviewer for the Works Progress Administration on the Coronado National Forest. In Arizona, the first CCC enrollees, single young men, ages 18 to 25, completed their training in Phoenix in May, 1933, and twenty-eight camps opened across Arizona with approxim...

Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.). Company 818 (Ariz.)

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