Civilian Conservation Corps Photograph Album

Metadata

Title

Created Date

1936 to 1938

Description

The Emergency Conservation Work Act of 1933 created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), an important part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt‚Äôs New Deal and the country's battle against the Great Depression. The CCC put millions of people to work on an extensive building program concentrating on America's parks and natural resources. CCC workers built and improved a wide variety of park facilities and infrastructure throughout California and the rest of the country, including bridges, campgrounds, dams, fire breaks and look-out towers, housing and other buildings, open-air amphitheaters, picnic areas, restrooms, roads, and trails. In addition, CCC men fought fires and cleaned up after floods. The CCC was instrumental in the formation of California's state park system, still in its early development in the 1930s. Without the CCC, many of the newly acquired park properties would have been without facilities and unusable for years. Only eighteen California state parks were open to the public in 1933, with meager facilities at most. By 1937, seventy parks were open and fully operating. This photograph album documents the labors of CCC camps across the Golden State, showing the work being done by the Corps as well as living conditions within the camps.

Creators and Contributors

Creator: California Department of Forestry

Subject Topic

Depressions--1929--California
New Deal, 1933-1939
Camp sites, facilities, etc
Trucks
Fire lookout stations
Mokelumne River (Calif.)
Road machinery

Subject Entity

Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)
United States. Forest Service
California. Division of Forestry

Spatial Coverage

California

Temporal Coverage

1930
1929 to 1941

Language

English