Civilian Conservation Corp and Mammoth Cave National Park Oral History Collection, 1987.

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Civilian Conservation Corp and Mammoth Cave National Park Oral History Collection, 1987.

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This collection contains interviews with twenty-five enrollees in four CCC camps in the Mammoth Cave area, employees of the park, and area residents discuss CCC jobs, including road construction, stonemasonry, fire fighting, fire tower duty, truck driving, telephone system installation, and erosion control and other conservation work; the National Park Service; the Great Depression; the contribution of the CCC to the military in World War II; comparisons between the CCC and the military; race relations in the camps; the CCC salary system; relations between the CCC and residents; and social life.

29 sound cassettes (ca. 27 hr.) : analog, mono.

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8334133

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)

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Mammoth Cave National Park (Ky.)

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Kentucky Oral History Commission

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